བོད་རིགས

Tibetan

Etymology

བོད (bod, “Tibet”) +‎ རིགས (rigs, “sort, type, clan”). Compare Chinese 藏族 (Zàngzú).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*bot.riks/
• Lhasa: /pʰøː˩˧˨.ʐi(k̚)ˀ˥˨/, /pʰyː˩˨.ʐi(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*bot.riks/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: poe^w-rig^h, pue^v-rig^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pʰøː˩˧˨.ʐi(k̚)ˀ˥˨/, /pʰyː˩˨.ʐi(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

Noun

བོད་རིགས • (bod rigs)

1. Tibetan people, Tibetan ethnicity

   Synonyms: བོད་པ (bod pa), བོད་མི (bod mi)

   བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ ― bod rigs rang skyong khul ― a Tibetan autonomous prefecture

References

• “བོད་རིགས” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 728. →ISBN