རྒྱ་མཚོ

རྒྱ་མཚོ

Tibetan

Etymology

རྒྱ (rgya, “vast, broad”) +‎ མཚོ (mtsho, “lake”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲa.mt͡sʰo/
• Lhasa: /ca˩˧.t͡sʰo˥˥/, /cam˩˧.t͡sʰo˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rɡʲa.mt͡sʰo/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan Pinyin: gya^v-co^f, gyam^v-co^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ca˩˧.t͡sʰo˥˥/, /cam˩˧.t͡sʰo˥˥/

Noun

རྒྱ་མཚོ • (rgya mtsho)

1. sea, ocean

Proper noun

རྒྱ་མཚོ • (rgya mtsho)

1. A unisex given name: Gyatso. It is the second word in the personal names of each Dalai Lama except for the first.