དུས་ཚོད

Tibetan

Etymology

དུས (dus, “time”) +‎ ཚོད (tshod, “measure, frequency”). First recorded in the biography of the 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, in a tribute offering dating from 1698, originally in reference to European mechanical clocks.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

དུས་ཚོད • (dus tshod)

  1. time
    Synonym: དུས (dus)
    དུས་ཚོད་འཕྲོ་བརླག ― dus tshod 'phro brlag ― waste of time
  2. moment
  3. time period, season
  4. schedule
  5. two-hour period of the day

References

  • “དུས་ཚོད” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984) English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 444. →ISBN
  1. ^ Yongdan, Lobsang (2021) “Timepieces as Gifts: Exploring European Clocks and Watches in Tibet”, in Revue d’Études Tibétaines‎[1], volume 57, pages 84-97
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