རྣམ་ཐར
Tibetan
Etymology
Contracted form of རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ (rnam par thar pa, “complete liberation”). Possibly a calque of Sanskrit विमोक्ष (vimokṣa, “final liberation”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*rnam.tʰar/
- Lhasa: /nam˥˥.tʰaː˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*rnam.tʰar/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: namf-taaf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /nam˥˥.tʰaː˥˥/
Noun
རྣམ་ཐར • (rnam thar)
- (Vajrayana Buddhism) namtar, hagiography, biography, life story; biographical notes about yogis
- song or aria from Tibetan operas
Descendants
- → English: namtar