བོད་རིགས

Tibetan

Etymology

བོད (bod, “Tibet”) +‎ རིགས (rigs, “sort, type, clan”). Compare Chinese 藏族 (Zàngzú).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*bot.riks/
Lhasa: /pʰøː˩˧˨.ʐi(k̚)ˀ˥˨/, /pʰyː˩˨.ʐi(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*bot.riks/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: poe^w-rig^h, pue^v-rig^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pʰøː˩˧˨.ʐi(k̚)ˀ˥˨/, /pʰyː˩˨.ʐi(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

Noun

བོད་རིགས • (bod rigs)

Tibetan people, Tibetan ethnicity
Synonyms: བོད་པ (bod pa), བོད་མི (bod mi)

བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ ― bod rigs rang skyong khul ― a Tibetan autonomous prefecture

References

“བོད་རིགས” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 728. →ISBN