རྣམ་ཐར

Tibetan

Etymology

Contracted form of རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ (rnam par thar pa, “complete liberation”). Possibly a calque of Sanskrit विमोक्ष (vimokṣa, “final liberation”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rnam.tʰar/
• Lhasa: /nam˥˥.tʰaː˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rnam.tʰar/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nam^f-taa^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /nam˥˥.tʰaː˥˥/

Noun

རྣམ་ཐར • (rnam thar)

1. (Vajrayana Buddhism) namtar, hagiography, biography, life story; biographical notes about yogis
2. song or aria from Tibetan operas

Descendants

• → English: namtar