རྒྱལ

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

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

Verb

རྒྱལ (rgyal)

to conquer, to win
to bet, to gamble

Sherpa

Verb

རྒྱལ (rgyal)

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/

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

Verb

རྒྱལ • (rgyal) (nominal form རྒྱལ་བ)

(intransitive) to be victorious, to win, to conquer, to subdue, to overpower
(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˩˨/

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

Noun

རྒྱལ • (rgyal)

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)

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