རྗེ་བླས

Tibetan

Etymology

རྗེ (rje, “lord, master, ruler”) +‎ བླས (blas), where བླས (blas) is an ancient form of modern ལས (las, “work, deed”). For the loss of the labial consonant, compare དཀའ་ལས (dka' las), pronounced /kap⁵ lɛ⁵⁵/ in Ngari Tibetan and /kʰapʰlas/ in Balti.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

རྗེ་བླས • (rje blas)

  1. (Classical) service, duty, administrative function

References

  1. ^ Schuessler, Axel (1998) “Another note on Old Tibetan rje-blas”, in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area‎[1], volume 21, number 2
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