ཐུགས་གསོ

Tibetan

Etymology

ཐུགས (thugs) +‎ གསོ (gso)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*tʰuks.kso/
• Lhasa: /tʰu˥˥.soˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*tʰuks.kso/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: tu^f-so
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰu˥˥.soˑ/

Noun

ཐུགས་གསོ • (thugs gso)

1. (honorific of སེམས་གསོ (sems gso)) comfort, consolation, solace
   • 2025 January 7, Kunleng News‎^[1], Voice of America Tibetan:

     ས་ཡོམ་གྱི་གོད་ཆག་ལ་ཐུགས་གསོའི་གསུང་འཕྲིན།

     sa yom gyi god chag la thugs gso 'i gsung 'phrin

     A message of condolence to the victims of the earthquake.

References

• Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984). English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, page 85. University of California Press.