རིན་པོ་ཆེ

Tibetan

Alternative forms

རིན་པོ་ཅེ (rin po ce)

Etymology

རིན (rin, “value, price”) +‎ པོ་ཆེ (po che, “big kind of; intensifying or emphatic suffix”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*rin.po.t͡ɕʰe/
Lhasa: /ʐim˩˧.pu˥˥.t͡ɕʰiˑ/, /ʐĩ˩˧.po˥˥.t͡ɕʰeˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*rin.po.t͡ɕʰe/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: rim^v-bu^f-qi, rin^v-bo^f-qe
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʐim˩˧.pu˥˥.t͡ɕʰiˑ/, /ʐĩ˩˧.po˥˥.t͡ɕʰeˑ/

Noun

རིན་པོ་ཆེ • (rin po che)

precious substance, jewel, gem
rinpoche (honorific Buddhist title)

Descendants

Chinese: 仁波切 (rénbōqiè)

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