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Lesson 6 Vocabulary - English Flashcards

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གཟའ་མཇུག

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Weekend

Saturday and Sunday (Sometimes Friday). (གཟའ་ = planet, as in: གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ = Monday, གཟའ་མིག་དམར་ = Tuesday, etc.; མཇུག་ = end, as in: མཇུག་གི་དོན་ = meaning of the conclusion).

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གཟའ་ཉི་མ།

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Sunday

(གཟའ་ = planet; ཉི་མ་ = sun).

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གུང་སེང་།

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Free time

Holiday. Break. (གུང་། = middle, center; སེང་། = to raise, to cleanse).

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གནས་མཇལ།

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Pilgrimage

གནས། = holy place; མཇལ། = to meet (H), to visit, as in: རྗེས་ལ་མཇལ་ཡོང་། = See you later!

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གསུང་ཆོས།

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Religious teaching

Dharma talk. Religious teaching. (གསུང་བ་ = to say, to speak (H); ཆོས་ = Dharma).

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ཟློས་གར་ཁང་།

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Theatre

(ཟློས་གར། = theatre, drama - ཟློས། = recite, spell, charm; གར། = st. where -; ཁང་། as in: ཁང་པ། = house, building, room).

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གཅན་གཟན་ཁང་།

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Zoo

(གཅན་གཟན། = wild/savage animal, carnivorous animal - གཟན། = to devour, to harm, painful -; ཁང་། = house, building, room). (Syn: སྦྱན་གཟིགས་ཁང་།).

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གློག་བརྙན་ཁང་།

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Cinema

Movie hall. (གློག་བརྙན། = movie - གློག = light, electricity; བརྙན། = image, replica as in: གཟུགས་བརྙན། = reflection -; ཁང་། = house, building).

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འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ཁང་།

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Museum

(འགྲེམས། = to arrange, set out; སྟོན། = to show; ཁང་། = house).

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ཐུགས་སྤྲོ།

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Party

(ཐུགས། (H) = སེམས། = heart, mind; སྤྲོ། (H) = སྐྱིད་པོ། = happy).

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སྐྱེ་སྐར་ཐུགས་སྤྲོ།

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Birthday party

(སྐྱེ་སྐར། = birthday; སྐྱེ། = to be born; སྐར། = star; ཐུགས་སྤྲོ། = party). Also spelled: སྐྱེས་སྐར་ཐུགས་སྤྲོ།

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ཟ་ཁང་།

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Restaurant

(ཟ་ = to eat; ཁང་ = house).

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ཨ་རག

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Alcohol

Also used as: ཆང་རག = chang and alcohol.

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དུས་ཚོད་སྟོང་པ།

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Free time

Leisure. (དུས་ཚོད།= time, as in: ནམ་དུས། = season; སྟོང་པ། = empty, as in: སྟོང་པ་ཉིད། = emptiness).

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ཡུལ་སྐོར་སྤྲོ་འཆམ།

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Sightseeing

Tourism.

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16
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རི་འཛེག་པ།

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To hike

To climb. To go to the mountains. Pronounced: རི་འཛག་པ། (རི་ = mountain, as in: གངས་རི་ = snow mountain, འཛེག་པ་ = to climb).

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17
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ཞབས་བྲོ་འཁྲབ་པ།

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To dance

(ཞབས། (H) = རྐང་པ། = leg; བྲོ། = to take an oath, amusement; འཁྲབ། = to perform, act).

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གཞས་གཏོང་བ།

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To sing

To sing songs. (གཞས། = song, as in: བོད་གཞས། = Tibetan song; གཏོང་བ། = verbalizer, also used with other nouns).

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རོགས་པ་བྱེད་པ།

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To help

(རོགས་པ། = friend, companion, assistant; བྱེད་པ། = to do, verbalizer, also used with other nouns).

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ཐ་མག་འཐེན་པ།

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To smoke cigarettes

(ཐ་མག = cigarettes, tobacco; འཐེན་པ། = to pull, as in: འཐེན་ཐུག = hand-made noodle soup).

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ར་བཟི་བ།

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To get drunk

To become intoxicated. (བཟི། = intoxication, stupefaction).

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གླིང་ག་གཏོང་བ།

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To picnic

(གླིང་ག = park, garden, as in: ནོར་བུ་གླིང་ཁ། = summer palace of H.H. the Dalai Lama in Lhasa; གཏོང་བ། = to send, verbalizer)

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ཉམས་ལེན་བྱེད་པ།

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To do religious practices

(ཉམས། as in: ཉམས་མྱོང་། = experience; ལེན། = to take; བྱེད་པ། = to do, verbalizer, also used with other nouns).

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ཕྱག་འཚལ་བ།

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To prostrate

ཕྱག (H) = ལག་པ། = hand; འཚལ། = to seek, want, beg

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ཆོབ་སློང་བ།

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To joke

(ཆོབ། = joke, to hide; སློང་བ། = request, ask, beg, provoke, inspire).

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གད་མོ་ཤོར་བ།

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To laugh

(ཤོར་བ། = to lose, verbalizer, also used with other nouns, always non-volitional). Also: གད་མོ་དགོད་པ། -voluntary-.

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ལྷོད་ལྷོད་བྱེད་པ།

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To relax.

To hang out. (ལྷོད་ལྷོད། = relaxed, calm, slow; བྱེད་པ། = to do, verbalizer). Mostly used as: ལྷོད་ལྷོད་བྱས་ནས་བསྡད་པ།.

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བརྙན་འཕྲིན་ལྟ་བ།

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To watch television

(བརྙན་འཕྲིན། = TV - བརྙན། = image, འཕྲིན། = message, letter -; ལྟ་བ། = to watch, also a [philosophical] view, as in: ལྟ་བ་རྟེན་འབྱུང་སྤྱོད་པ་འཚེ་མེད། = the view of dependent arising, the conduct of non-violence).

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ལྟད་མོ་ལྟ་བ།

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To watch a movie

To watch a film. Almost syn: གློག་བརྙན་ལྟ་བ། (ལྟད་མོ། = movie, show; ལྟ་བ། = to watch).

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དྲྭ་རྒྱ་སྔོག་པ།

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To surf the internet

(དྲྭ།= net, veil; རྒྱ། = vast, as in: རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ། = vast, broad, spacious; སྔོག་པ། = to dig). Also spelled: དྲ་རྒྱ།.

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ཉོ་ཆ་རྒྱག་པ།

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To do shopping

(ཉོ་ཆ། = shopping - ཉོ། = to buy -; རྒྱག་པ། = to do).

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རོགས་པ་ཐུག་གར་འགྲོ་བ།

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To go and see/meet a friend

(རོགས་པ་ = friend; ཐུག་ = to meet; གར་ = connective; འགྲོ་བ་ = to go).

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འཕྲོ་བརླག་གཏོང་བ།

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To waste

Not to use wisely. To spoil. Also spelled: འཕྲོག (འཕྲོ། = radiate, spread, diffuse, scatter; བརླག = to lose; གཏོང་བ། = verbalizer, send, give).

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དུས་ཚོད་རག་པ།

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To get the time

To find the time. (དུས་ཚོད། = time; རག་པ། = to obtain, receive).

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ཁ་སང་།

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Yesterday

Previously. Some time ago.

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སྔོན་མ།

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Previous

Past. Earlier. Previously.

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བདུན་ཕྲག་སྔོན་མ།

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Last week

(བདུན་ཕྲག = week - བདུན། = seven; ཕྲྲག = interval, class, set of… -; སྔོན་མ། = past, last).

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ཐེངས་གཅིག

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Once

One time. (Syn: ཐེངས་མ་གཅིག) (ཐེངས། = time; གཅིག = one).

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ཕྱི་ལོགས།

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Outside

Out. External. (ལོགས། = side, foundation [of mansion], surface, face).

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ལྟད་མོ་ཆེན་པོ།

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Pleasant to see

Entertaining. Nice to watch. (ལྟད་མོ་ = show, movie; ཆེན་པོ་ = big, makes it into an adjective).

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གཟའ་སྤེན་པ།

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Saturday

(གཟའ་ = planet; སྤེན་པ་ = Saturn).

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ངལ་གསོ་རྒྱག་པ།

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To rest

To relax. To take a rest. To recover. (ངལ། as in: དཀའ་ངལ། = difficulty, trouble, hardship; གསོ། = to cure, to nourish; རྒྱག་པ། = to do, verbalizer, also used with other nouns).

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འཁྱམ་འཁྱམ་ལ་འགྲོ་བ།

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To stroll around

To go for a walk.

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ནང་ལས་བྱེད་པ།

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Household work

To do housework. (ནང་། = inside, as in: ནང་པ། = Buddhist; ལས། = action, karma, as in: ལས་ཀ། = work; བྱེད་པ། = to do).

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རྐྱལ་རྒྱག་པ།

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To swim

(རྐྱལ། = skill in crossing rivers; རྒྱག་པ། = to do) (Syn: ཆུ་རྐྱལ་རྒྱག་པ།).

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ཕྱི་པོ་ཆགས་པ།

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To get late

To arrive late. (ཕྱི། = late, as in: སྐྱེ་བ་སྔ་ཕྱི། = past and future lives. ཆགས། = Desire, attachment).

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གང་ཡིན་ཟེར་ན།

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Because…

(གང་ཡིན། = what is; ཟེར་ན། = if one says).

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