ཐུགས་གསོ

Tibetan

Etymology

ཐུགས (thugs) +‎ གསོ (gso)

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*tʰuks.kso/
Lhasa: /tʰu˥˥.soˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*tʰuks.kso/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: tu^f-so
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰu˥˥.soˑ/

Noun

ཐུགས་གསོ • (thugs gso)

(honorific of སེམས་གསོ (sems gso)) comfort, consolation, solace
- 2025 January 7, Kunleng News‎^[1], Voice of America Tibetan:
  ས་ཡོམ་གྱི་གོད་ཆག་ལ་ཐུགས་གསོའི་གསུང་འཕྲིན།
  sa yom gyi god chag la thugs gso 'i gsung 'phrin
  A message of condolence to the victims of the earthquake.

References

Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984). English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, page 85. University of California Press.