མཐའ

Tibetan

Etymology

Tournadre & Suzuki (2023) compare this to མཐེ་བོ (mthe bo, “thumb”).

Pronunciation

Noun

མཐའ • (mtha')

  1. edge, fringe, border, extremity, limit, end
    Synonyms: སྣེ (sne), མཇུག (mjug)
    མཐའ་མེད་པའི་ཚེ་སྲོག ― mtha' med pa'i tshe srog ― eternal life (literally, “life without end”)

Derived terms

References

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