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Lesson 5 Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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ཡར་ཕེབས།

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Please come in!

lit. come up!) (ཡར་ = up, upwards; ཕེབས་ (H) = to come

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བོད་པའི་ལུགས་སྲོལ།

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Tibetan custom

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ཇ།

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Tea

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གསོལ་ཇ།

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Tea (H)

(གསོལ་ is added to words to make them honorific (H). For example: གསོལ་ཅོག་ (H) = honorific of ཅོག་ཙེ་ = table; ཇ་ = tea)

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ཇ་དམ།

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Thermos

ཇ་ = tea; དམ་ as in: དམ་པོ་ = firm, tight

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སྡོང་མོ།

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Churn

Vase for making Tibetan tea. Also spelled: མདོང་མོ།. (སྡོང་ = trunk, as in: ཤིང་སྡོང་ = tree).

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བོད་ཇ།

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Tibetan tea

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ཇ་མངར་མོ།

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Sweet tea

ཇ་ = tea; མངར་མོ་ = sweet

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འཚིག་ཇ།

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Coffee

(འཚིག་ = was burned, ཇ་ = tea). (syn: ཀོ་ཕི། or ཀོ་ཕི༹།).

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དཀར་ཡོལ།

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Cup

དཀར་ = white, as in: དཀར་པང་ = white board

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འོ་མ།

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Milk

(འོ། = milk, as in: འོ་རྩམ། = milk powder (lit. milk tsampa)).

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ཚྭ།

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Salt

(Not to be confused with: ཚ། = hot, heat).

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མར།

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Butter

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ཇ་ཐང་།

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Black tea

Plain tea. (ཇ། = tea; ཐང་། = plain, as in: སྤང་ཐང་། = plain, field).

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ཇ་བསྲུབས་མ།

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Tibetan [butter] tea

(ཇ། = tea; སྲུབ། = to churn, to stir, to mix). (Syn: བོད་ཇ།).

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བག་ལེབ།

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Bread

བག་ = dough, bread, flour; ལེབ་ལེབ་ = flat

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ཁ་ཟས།

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Tibetan biscuits.

Kabsey. (ཁ། = mouth; ཟས། = edibles).

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ཕྱུ་ར།

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Cheese

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ཨ་མ་ལགས།

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Mother (H)

as in the Tibetan song: ཨ་མ་རྗེ་བཙུན་པད་མ་ Ama Jetsün Pema, sister of H.H. the Dalai Lama

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སྤོ་བོ་ལགས།

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Grandfather (H)

(སྤོ་བོ། = grandfather - སྤོ། = change, move; བོ། = householder - ལགས། = honorific marker). (syn: སྤོ་ལགས།).

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གཅུང་མོ།

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Younger sister

Younger relative.

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གཅུང་པོ།

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Younger brother

Younger relative.

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ཨ་ཅག

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Older sister

Also spelled: ཨ་ལྕག

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ཅོ་ཅོ།

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Older brother

syn: གཅེན་པོ་, ཇོ་, ཇོ་ཇོ་

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ཕ་མ་གཅིག་པའི་སྤུན་ཀྱག

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Sibling from the same parents

(ཕ་མ། = parents; གཅིག་པ། = same; སྤུན་ཀྱག = sibling, relative).

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མནའ་མ།

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Daughter in law

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སྐྱེས་དམན།

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Wife

(སྐྱེས། = born, imperative of སྐྱེ་བ།; དམན་པ། = lower, lesser ☹). Also spelled: སྐྱེ་སྨན།

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ཁྱོ་ག

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Husband

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བཟའ་ཟླ།

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Spouse

Partner. (Syn: ཟླ་བོ།).

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ཨ་ནི།

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Paternal aunt

Nun. Aunty. (Also spelled: ཨ་ནེ།).

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ཨ་ཁུ།

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Paternal uncle

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སྲུ་མོ།

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Maternal aunt

(Syn: ཨ་སྲུ།).

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ཨ་ཞང་།

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Maternal uncle

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སྐད་ཆ་བཤད་པ།

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To chat

To talk. To have a conversation. (སྐད་ཆ། = conversation, chat; བཤད་པ། = to say, talk, express).

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བཀའ་མོལ་གནང་བ།

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To dialogue (H)

To talk. To chat. To have a conversation. (H) (བཀའ་ (H) = speech, as in: བཀའ་དང་བསྟན་བཅོས་ = the word [of the Buddha] and the treatises).

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ཟ་བ།

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To eat

Also spelled: བཟའ་བ། (future tense) (ཟ་ = to eat, as in: ཟ་ཁང་ = restaurant)

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ཞུ་བ།

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To say (h)

To be called. To have. To take. (h) (Used in the phrase: ཁྱེད་རང་གི་མཚན་ལ་ག་རེ་ཞུ་གི་ཡོད། = (very polite): What is your name?)

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འཐུང་བ།

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To drink

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མཆོད་པ།

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To eat (H)

To drink. To offer. To have. (H) Also: offering to offer. (མཆོད། = to offer, as in: མཆོད་རྟེན། = stupa, (lit. support for offering)).

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བླུག་པ།

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To put into

To pour. To place into. (As in: ཇ་བླུག་ས། = vessel for tea).

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འགྲིག་པ།

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To be okay

To be fine. To be alright. (As in the very common question: ་་་་་་ན་འགྲིག་གི་རེད་པས། = May I…? Is it okay if I…?”)

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བཟོ་བ།

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To make

To prepare. To produce.

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སྤྲད་པ།

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To give

(སྤྲད། = to give, as in: ངོ་སྤྲོད། = introducing oneself (lit. giving one’s face)).

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སེམས་ཁྲལ་བྱེད་པ།

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To worry

To get worried. (སེམས། = mind; ཁྲལ། = grief, sorrow and tax!; བྱེད་པ། = to do).

45
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རྩེད་མོ་རྩེ་བ།

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To Joke

To play. To kid. To tease. (རྩེད་ = game (noun) / to play, as in: རྐང་རྩེད་སྤོ་ལོ་ = football, ལག་རྩེད་སྤོ་ལོ་ = handball, etc.)

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གང་།

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Filled

A cup of… Full.

47
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ཞིམ་པོ།

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tasty

Delicious. Flavorsome. (As in: ཞིམ་ཤོས་ = most tasty, tastiest).

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གཞོན་གཞོན།

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Young

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ལོ་ཆུང་ཆུང་།

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Young

Small. (for animals and people) (ལོ། = year, as in: ལོ་གསར། = New Year; ཆུང་ཆུང་། = small).

50
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ལོ་ཆེན་པོ།

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Old

for animals and people) (ལོ་ = year, as in: ལོ་གསར་ = New Year; ཆེན་པོ་ = big

51
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དགུང་ལོ་ཆེན་པོ།

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Elderly (H)

Old. (དགུང་། makes the honorific (H), also space, middle; ལོ་ཆེན་པོ། = old).

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དད་པ་ཆེན་པོ།

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Devoted

Someone having great faith. (དད་པ་ = faith, devotion, as in: དད་པ་གསུམ་ = the three [types of] faith; ཆེན་པོ་ = big)

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ཆོབ་ཚ་པོ།

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Funny

Strange. Someone who likes joking. (ཆོབ། = joke, to hide; ཚ་པོ། = hot (here used to create adjective).

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འཆམ་པོ།

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Getting along well

Being close.

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ལེ་ལོ་ཚ་པོ།

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lazy

ལེ་ལོ་ = laziness, as in: ལེ་ལོ་གསུམ་ = the three [types of] laziness; ཚ་པོ་ = same as above

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ག་རེ་བྱུང་ནའི་འགྲིག་གི་རེད།

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I’m fine with whatever

I am easy. Whatever you have works with me, etc. (ག་རེ་ = what; འབྱུང་ནའི་ = whatever comes; འགྲིག་གི་འདུག = it is o.k., fine)

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ད་དུང་།

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Still

Apart from… Also. Again. Further.

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མང་ཆེ་བ།

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Mostly

Majority. Most. Most part. (མང་། as in: མང་པོ། = a lot, many; ཆེ་བ། = bigger, comes from: ཆེན་པོ་ = big, large).

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གའི་ཡོད་མ་རེད།

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No worries!

That doesn’t matter. It’s not a problem, (syn: གའི་གནང་གི་མ་རེད། (H) གའི་བྱེད་ཀྱི་མ་རེད།; གའི་ = anything, nothing, ཡོད་མ་རེད། = there isn’t).

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པ་ལགས།

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Father (H)

syn: ཨ་ཕ། (not H) also spelled: ཨ་པ།

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རྨོ་རྨོ་ལགས།

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Grandmother (H)

syn: རྨོ་ལགས་) (Not to be confused with the dumplings, མོག་མོག, those are to eat!

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འོག་མ།

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Younger sibling

Later. What comes later. (འོག་ = below, underneath, མ་ makes it into a person).

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བཞེས་པ།

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To take (H)

To have. (བཞེས། is added to words to make them honorific (H). For example: བཞེས་མོག (H) = མོག་མོག = momos; བཞེས་ཐུག (H) = ཐུག་པ། = noodles or soup).

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དངོས་གནས།

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Truly

Real. Really. True. (དངོས། = true, as in: དངོས་པོ།; གནས། = abide, state, remain, as in: གནས་མཇལ། = pilgrimage).

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ཡིན་གཅིག་མིན་གཅིག

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Mandatorily

Duly. Obligatorily. Really. Absolutely. At any cost! (ཡིན། = is, am; གཅིག = one; མིན། = is/am not; གཅིག = one)

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