ཆོས་རྒྱལ

Tibetan

Etymology

Compound of ཆོས (chos, “dharma”) +‎ རྒྱལ (rgyal, “to be victorious”). Calque of Sanskrit धर्मराज (dharmarāja).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*t͡ɕʰos.rɡʲal/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰøː˥˥.cɛː˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*t͡ɕʰos.rɡʲal/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: qoe^f-gyae^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰøː˥˥.cɛː˥˥/

Noun

ཆོས་རྒྱལ • (chos rgyal)

1. dharma king, chogyal (one of several Buddhist monarchs in the Tibetan cultural sphere)

Proper noun

ཆོས་རྒྱལ • (chos rgyal)

1. a male given name