རྗེ

Tibetan

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation


Noun

རྗེ • (rje)

  1. master, lord, king
Derived terms
  • རྗེ་ཁོལ (rje khol)
  • རྗེ་ངན (rje ngan)
  • རྗེ་དྲུང (rje drung)
  • རྗེ་དཔོན (rje dpon)
  • རྗེ་ཕྲན (rje phran)
  • རྗེ་བོ (rje bo)
  • རྗེ་བྲན (rje bran)
  • རྗེ་བླ་མ (rje bla ma)
  • རྗེ་བླས (rje blas)
  • རྗེ་བློན (rje blon)
  • རྗེ་འབངས (rje 'bangs)
  • རྗེ་འབུམ་ཁང (rje 'bum khang)
  • རྗེ་མོ (rje mo)
  • རྗེ་ཙོང་ཁ་པ (rje tsong kha pa)
  • རྗེ་བཙན (rje btsan)
  • རྗེ་བཙུན (rje btsun)
  • རྗེ་ཞབས (rje zhabs)
  • རྗེ་རིགས (rje rigs)
  • རྗེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ (rje rin po che)
  • རྗེ་ས (rje sa)
  • ཐུགས་རྗེ (thugs rje)
  • བདུད་རྗེ (bdud rje)
  • རྡོ་རྗེ (rdo rje)

Etymology 2

Compare Tawang Monpa /ple⁵⁵/, Burmese လဲ (lai:), Tangut 𗯗 (*lej²) with the Chinese comparanda (OC *leːɡs, *leɡ, “change, interchange”), (OC *lal, “change, shift”) or (OC *mreːʔ, “buy, purchase”).[1]

Pronunciation


Verb

རྗེ • (rje) (nominal form རྗེ་བ)

  1. exchange, shift, barter
  2. switch out
Conjugation
present རྗེ (rje)
future བརྗེ (brje)
past བརྗེས (brjes)
imperative བརྗེས (brjes)

References

  • རྗེ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 399.
  1. ^ Hill, Nathan W. (2013) “Relative Ordering of Tibetan Sound Changes Affecting Laterals”, in Language and Linguistics, volume 14