གྲྭ་པ

Tibetan

Alternative forms

• གྲ་པ (gra pa)

Etymology

གྲྭ (grwa) +‎ པ (pa, “nominalization suffix”)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*grʷa.pa/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰa˩˧˨.paˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*grʷa.pa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: cha^w-ba
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰa˩˧˨.paˑ/

Noun

གྲྭ་པ • (grwa pa)

1. (Tibetan Buddhism) monk

   གྲྭ་པ་མེད་པའི་མཁན་པོ་

   grwa pa med pa'i mkhan po

   an abbot without any monks

Derived terms

• གྲྭ་ཁང (grwa khang)
• གྲྭ་ཆུང (grwa chung)

Related terms

• དགེ་སློང (dge slong)
• དགེ་འདུན་པ (dge 'dun pa)
• ཧྭ་ཤང (hwa shang)

References

• “གྲྭ་པ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “གྲྭ་པ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.