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Lesson 7 Vocabulary - English Flashcards

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གནམ་གཤིས།

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Weather

Climate. (གནམ། = sky; གཤིས། = character, mood, as in: གཤིས་ཀ། = character of a person).

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ཁོར་ཡུག

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Environment

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ནམ་དུས།

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Season

(ནམ། = when; དུས། = time, as in: དུས་ཚོད། = time).

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དུས་བཞི།

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The four seasons

(དུས། = time; བཞི། = four. As in the Tibetan song: ནམ་དུས་བཞི། = The Four Seasons).

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དབྱར་ཀ།

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Summer

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སྟོན་ཀ།

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Autumn

Fall. (སྟོན་ = to show, to take out, as in: སྟོན་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ = the teacher, the Buddha).

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དགུན་ཁ།

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Winter

(དགུང་། = middle, space; ཁ། = mouth, opening).

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དཔྱིད་ཀ།

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Spring

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ཤར།

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East

(ཤར་བ། = to rise, as in: ཉི་མ་ཤར། = sunrise; མེ་ཏོག་ཤར། = flowers bloom). (Syn: ཤར་ངོས། or ཤར་ཕྱོགས།).

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ལྷོ།

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South

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ནུབ།

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West

(ནུབ་བ། = to set, to go down, as in: ཉི་མ་ནུབ། = sunset).

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བྱང་།

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North

(བྱང་། = north, as in: བྱང་ཐང་ = northern plain).

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ཞོགས་གས།

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Morning

(ཞོགས། = morning as in: ཞོགས་པ་བདེ་ལེགས། = Good morning! གས། = split, crack). (Also spelled: ཞོགས་ཀས། Syn: ཞོགས་པ།).

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ཉིན་གུང་རྒྱབ་ལ།

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Afternoon

(ཉིན་གུང་། = noon, ཉིན། = day, གུང་། = middle, center; རྒྱབ། = behind, after, as in: ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས། = Good afternoon!)

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དགོང་མོ།

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Evening

As in: དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། = Good evening!) (Syn: དགོང་དག

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ནམ་མཁའ།

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Sky

Space. (As in the Tibetan name: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནམ་མཁའ། = Tenzin Namkha).

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ཚ་གྲང་།

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Temperature

(ཚ[་པོ]། = hot; གྲང་[མོ]། = cold).

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ཚ་བ།

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Heat

(ཚ། = ཚ་པོ། = hot).

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དྲོད།

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Warmth

Heat

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ལྷགས་པ།

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Breeze
Wind. (Not to be confused with ལྷག་པ་ = supreme, superior, as in: ལྷག་པའི་བསླབ་པ་གསུམ་ = the three superior trainings [of discipline, meditative concentration and insight]).

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ལོ་མ།

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Leaf [of a plant]

(ལོ། = petal).

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ཆར་དུས།

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Rainy season

(ཆར། = rain; དུས། = time).

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ས་ཆ།

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Place

(ས། as in: ལྷ་ས། = Lhasa).

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མཁའ་རླུང་།

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Atmosphere

Air.

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གངས་འབབ་པ།

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To snow

Snowfall. (གངས། = snow, as in: གངས་རི། = snow mountain; འབབ་བ། = to fall, as in: འབབ་ཆུ། waterfall).

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ཆར་པ་འབབ་པ།

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To rain

(ཆར། = rain, as in: ཆར་དུས། = rainy season; ཆར་གདུགས། = umbrella; འབབ། = to fall, as in: འབབ་ཆུ། = waterfall). (Syn: ཆར་པ་གཏོང་བ། or རྒྱག་པ།).

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སེར་ར་གཏོང་བ།

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To hail

(སེར་ར། = hail; གཏོང་བ། = (lit.) to send – used here and elsewhere as a verbalizer. For example: ཁ་པར་གཏོང་བ་ = to make a phone call; སྐྱིད་པོ་གཏོང་བ་ = to enjoy oneself)

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རླུང་པོ་རྒྱག་པ།

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To be windy

To blow.(རླུང་། = wind, as in རླུང་རྟ། = wind horse; རྒྱག = to do).

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སྨུག་པ་འཐིབ་པ།

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To be foggy

To be misty. (Syn: སྨུག་པ་འཁོར་བ། or འཁྲིགས་པ།) (སྨུག་པ། = fog, mist; འཁོར་བ། = to spin, rotate; འཐིབ་པ། = to be covered, gloomy, sloth, dullness).

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ཚ་བ་འཚིག་པ།

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To feel hot

To be hot. (Syn: ཚ་བ།) (ཚ་བ། = heat, as in: ཚ་བ་ཆེན་པོ། = hot [weather]; འཚིག་པ། = to burn, be burned, as in: འཚིག་ཇ། = coffee).

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གྲང་བ།

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To feel cold

To be cold. (As in: གྲང་མོ། = cold).

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ཉོབ་པ།

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To be upset about

To get bored. To dislike. To feel bored. To be tired of.

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གྱོན་པ།

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To wear

To have on. To put on (clothing). Also spelled: གོན་པ། (As in: གྱོན་ཆས། = clothing).

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འབྲུག་སྐད་རྒྱག་པ།

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To thunder

(འབྲུག་སྐད། = voice of the dragon; རྒྱག་པ། = to do).

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གློག་འཁྱུག་པ།

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To flash of lightning

(གློག = light, as in: གློག་ཀླད། = computer).

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ས་ཡོམ་རྒྱག་པ།

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an earthquake

(ས། = earth; ཡོམ། = to shake, swing; རྒྱག་པ། = to do).

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ཚ་གྲང་སྙོམས་པོ།

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Balanced temperature

Comfortable temperature. Just right temperature. (ཚ་གྲང་། = temperature; སྙོམས། = balanced, as in: བཏང་སྙོམས། = equanimity, one of the Four Immeasurables, ཚད་མེད་བཞི།).

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ཚ་པོ།

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Hot

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གྲང་མོ།

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Cold

40
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བསིལ་པོ།

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Fresh

Pleasantly cold. Chilly.

41
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སྡུག་ཆག

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Bad

Ugly. Not good: Also spelled: སྡུག་ཅགས།. (སྡུག as in: སྡུག་བསྔལ། = suffering).

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ལྗང་ཐིང་ཐིང་།

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Bright green

(ལྗང་ཁུ། = green; ཐིང་ཐིང་། = completely, essential aspects of things).

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ཚ་བ་ཆེན་པོ།

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Lots of heat

Hot. (ཚ་བ། = heat; ཆེན་པོ། = great, big).

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ཤུགས་ཆེན་པོ།

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Strong

Strongly. Heavily (e.g. rain). (ཤུགས། = strength; ཆེན་པོ། = great, big).

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ད་ལྟ།

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Now

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སྤྱིར་བཏང་།

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In general

Generally. (སྤྱི། = general, as in: སྤྱི་ཚོགས། = society; བཏང་། = to send, to give).

47
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ནམ་རྒྱུན།

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Usually

Commonly. Usual. (ནམ། = when[ever]; རྒྱུན། = stream, continuation).

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ཉིན་མ་རྟག་པར།

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Daily

Every day. (ཉིན། = day as in ཉི་མ། = sun, day; རྟག་པར། = every…)

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རྟག་པར།

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Always

Every… (As in: མི་རྟག་པ། = impermanence).

50
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འདྲ་མི་འདྲ།

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various kinds of…

All kinds of… Different types of… (འདྲ་ = to be similar, as in: འདྲ་པོ་ = similar; མི་ = negation).

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བྱས་ཙང་།

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Therefore…

For this reason. (བྱས། = did; ཙང་། = causal connective).

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དགའ་ཤོས།

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Favorite

(དགའ། = to like, love; ཤོས། = superlative syllable).

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ནང་བཞིན།

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Just as…

Like. As. (ནང་། = internal; བཞིན། = likeness).

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ཡང་།

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Also

As well. (as in: ཡང་འཇུག་ = second suffix).

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མང་ཆེ་བ།

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most, majority

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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མཚན་མོ།

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Night

(As in: ཉིན་མཚན། = day and night) (Syn: མཚན།).

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ཚོན་གཞི།

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Color

(ཚོན། = hue; གཞི། = foundation, base.) (Syn: ཚོས་གཞི།, ཚོན་མདོག, ཚོས་མདོག or ཁ་དོག).

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འཁྱག་པ།

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To freeze

To become vey cold. (As in: འཁྱགས་པ། = ice).

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ཉི་མ་ཤར་བ།

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To rise of the sun

Bright of the sun. To shine, the sun. Sunrise. (Syn: ཉི་མ་སྟོན་པ།) (ཉི་མ། = sun, as in: གཟའ་ཉི་མ། = Sunday; ཤར། = to rise, the east).

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ཉི་མ་ནུབ་པ།

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To set of the sun

Sunset. (ཉི་མ། = sun; ནུབ། = to go down, to set, the west).

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ས་རུབ་པ།

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To get dark

(ས། = earth, place; རུབ། = obscure, to collect).

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སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་བྱེད་པ།

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To protect

To guard. To save. To shelter. (སྲུང་། = to guard, protect, as in: སྲུང་མ། = protector deities; སྐྱོབ། = to protect, as in: སྐྱབས་འགྲོ། = going for refuge).

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སྤྲིན་པ་འཁྲིགས་པ།

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To be cloudy

(སྤྲིན་པ། = cloud; འཁྲིགས་པ། = to stick together). (Syn: སྤྲིན་པ་འཁོར་བ།).

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ཁག་ཁག

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Different

Separate.

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དེ་དུས།

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That time

In that moment. (དེ། = that; དུས། = time).

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སྐྱིད་པོ།

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Pleasant

Fun. Content. Comfortable. Nice. Happy. (སྐྱིད། = comfort; happiness, as in the Tibetan name: བདེ་སྐྱིད།).

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