ཐེ

Tibetan

Etymology

Has been connected to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *teɣ (“God”); compare Chinese 帝 (OC *teːɡs, “God of Heaven”), 禘 (OC *deːɡs, “a kind of sacrifice”), Jingpho [script needed] (mə³¹-tai³³, “god of the sky”), Proto-Bodo-Garo *mɯ-Dai⁴ (“spirit; god”) (Coblin, 1986; Schuessler, 2007; Sagart, 2011).

Pronunciation

Verb

ཐེ • (the) (nominal form ཐེ་བ)

  1. belong to, be a part of

Noun

ཐེ • (the)

  1. alternative form of ཐེའུ་རང (the'u rang, “type of demon”)
    Synonym: ཐེ་བྲང (the brang)
  2. seal, signet
    Synonym: ཐེ་མོ (the mo)
  3. suspicion, doubt
    Synonym: ཐེ་ཚོམ (the tshom)

References

  • “ཐེ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
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