རྒྱ་སེར

Tibetan

Etymology

From རྒྱ (rgya, “expanse, empire”) +‎ སེར (ser, “yellow”). Compare རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag, “China”, literally “the black expanse”) and རྒྱ་གར (rgya gar, “India”, literally “the white expanse”); the choice of yellow for Russia is unclear, but may reference the Golden Horde.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲa.ser/
Lhasa: /ɟa˩˨.seːˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*rɡʲa.ser/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ghya^v-see
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɟa˩˨.seːˑ/

Proper noun

རྒྱ་སེར • (rgya ser)

(historical) Russia (a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia)
Synonym: ཨུ་རུ་སུ (u ru su)

Declension

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