རྒྱ་མཚོ

Tibetan

Etymology

Compound of རྒྱ (rgya, “vast, broad”) +‎ མཚོ (mtsho, “lake”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲa.mt͡sʰo/
Lhasa: /ɟa˩˨.t͡sʰoˑ/, /ɟam˩˨.t͡sʰoˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*rɡʲa.mt͡sʰo/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ghya^v-co, ghyam^v-co
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɟa˩˨.t͡sʰoˑ/, /ɟam˩˨.t͡sʰoˑ/

Noun

རྒྱ་མཚོ • (rgya mtsho)

sea, ocean

Proper noun

རྒྱ་མཚོ • (rgya mtsho)

a unisex given name, equivalent to English Gyatso, the second word in the personal names of each Dalai Lama except for the first