སེམས་གསོ

Tibetan

Etymology

སེམས (sems, “mind, spirit”) +‎ གསོ (gso, “heal”)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*sems.kso/
• Lhasa: /sem˥˥.soˑ/

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

Noun

སེམས་གསོ • (sems gso)

1. comfort, consolation, solace

   Synonym: (honorific) ཐུགས་གསོ (thugs gso)

References

• “སེམས་གསོ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984). English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, page 85. University of California Press.