རྒྱལ

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛː˩/
• Homophone: བརྒྱད (brgyad)

Verb

རྒྱལ (rgyal)

1. to conquer, to win
2. to bet, to gamble

Sherpa

Verb

རྒྱལ (rgyal)

1. to win

References

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Etymology

Unknown. By Li Fang-Kuei's Law, Old Tibetan rgy- derives from pre-Tibetan *ry-. Perhaps related to རྒྱ (rgya, “great”).

Pronunciation 1

• Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲal/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rɡʲal/ (reconstructed)

Verb

རྒྱལ • (rgyal) (nominal form རྒྱལ་བ)

1. (intransitive) to be victorious, to win, to conquer, to subdue, to overpower
2. (intransitive) to be superior than another

Conjugation

Conjugation of རྒྱལ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	རྒྱལ	rgyal
Future	རྒྱལ	rgyal
Past	རྒྱལ (archaic) རྒྱལད	rgyal rgyald
Imperative	རྒྱལ	rgyal

Pronunciation 2

• Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲal/
• Lhasa: /ɟɛː˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rɡʲal/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ghyae^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɟɛː˩˨/

Noun

རྒྱལ • (rgyal)

1. conquest, victory

Derived terms

• རྒྱལ་ཁབ (rgyal khab)
• རྒྱལ་ཁམས (rgyal khams)
• རྒྱལ་ཁོངས (rgyal khongs)
• རྒྱལ་ཁྲིམས (rgyal khrims)
• རྒྱལ་པོ (rgyal po)
• རྒྱལ་སྤྱི (rgyal spyi)
• རྒྱལ་བ (rgyal ba)
• རྒྱལ་འབྲེལ (rgyal 'brel)
• རྒྱལ་ཚབ (rgyal tshab)
• རྒྱལ་མཚན (rgyal mtshan)
• རྒྱལ་རབས (rgyal rabs)
• རྒྱལ་རིགས (rgyal rigs)
• རྒྱལ་རོང (rgyal rong)
• རྒྱལ་སྲས (rgyal sras)
• རྒྱལ་སྲིད (rgyal srid)
• ཆོས་རྒྱལ (chos rgyal)