གཡས་ཕྱོགས

Tibetan

Etymology

གཡས (g.yas) +‎ ཕྱོགས (phyogs).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ɡjas.pʰʲoks/
• Lhasa: /jɛː˩˧˨.t͡ɕoː˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ɡjas.pʰʲoks/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: yae^w-joo^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /jɛː˩˧˨.t͡ɕoː˥˨/

Noun

གཡས་ཕྱོགས • (g.yas phyogs)

1. right, right-hand side

   Antonym: གཡོན་ཕྱོགས (g.yon phyogs)

   • 2019, New Tibetan Bible, Matthew 25:33:

     ལུག་རྣམས་གཡས་ཕྱོགས་དང་ར་མ་རྣམས་གཡོན་ཕྱོགས་སུ་ཡོད་པར་བྱེད་དོ༎

     lug rnams g.yas phyogs dang ra ma rnams g.yon phyogs su yod par byed do.

     And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

2. (politics) the right, rightist

References

• “གཡས་ཕྱོགས” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press.