རྩི

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-tsij (medicine; juice; paint). Compare Nuosu (cy) (as in ꁬꋌ (bbut cy)), Lolopo naxcir (medicine), Naxi cher'ee (medicine), Burmese ဆေး (hce:), Chinese (OC *sʰiɡ).

Pronunciation


Noun

རྩི • (rtsi)

  1. grass, plants, thickets
  2. juice, fluid, essence, extract
  3. herb, remedy, medicine
  4. paint, dye
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation


Verb

རྩི • (rtsi) (nominal form རྩི་བ)

  1. (transitive) to count, to reckon, to calculate
  2. (transitive) to think that something is, to regard as
  3. (transitive) to think about doing something, to plan on
  4. (transitive) to go against, to defy, to accept, to bear
Conjugation
present རྩི (rtsi)
future བརྩི (brtsi)
past བརྩིས (brtsis)
རྩིས (rtsis)
imperative རྩིས (rtsis)
བརྩིས (brtsis)

References

  • རྩི” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • རྩི” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.