གླ་རྩི

Tibetan

Etymology

གླ (gla, “musk deer”) +‎ རྩི (rtsi, “essence, extract”). Compare Kurtöp ལར་ཙེ (lar tse).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*gla.rt͡si/
• Lhasa: /lə˥˥.t͡siˑ/
• Batang: /la⁵⁵ tsɪ⁵³/
• Zêkog: /hlær htsə/
• Bla-Brang: /hla htsə/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*gla.rt͡si/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: lac^f-zi
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /lə˥˥.t͡siˑ/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /la⁵⁵ tsɪ⁵³/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /hlær htsə/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hla htsə/

Noun

གླ་རྩི • (gla rtsi)

1. musk

   གླ་རྩི་དབྱུགས་ནས་གླ་ལྤགས་ཉར་

   gla rtsi dbyugs nas gla lpags nyar

   lack of good judgment

   (literally, “to discard the musk but keep the deerskin”)

References

• “གླ་རྩི” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT). University of California at Berkeley. Directed by Matisoff, James A.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 209. →ISBN