སངས་རྒྱས

Tibetan

Etymology

Calque of Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “Buddha; awakened”), from སངས (sangs, “purified; cleansed”) +‎ རྒྱས (rgyas, “extended; fully grown; spread”), literally “the awakened-blossomed one”, meaning that the Buddha has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and spread his mind to all objects of knowledge.

Pronunciation

Noun

སངས་རྒྱས • (sangs rgyas)

  1. (Buddhism) Buddha
    Synonym: ཐུབ (thub)
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