རྒྱ་སེར

Tibetan

Etymology

From རྒྱ (rgya, “expanse, empire”) +‎ སེར་པོ (ser po, “yellow”). Compare རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag, “China”, literally “black expanse”) and རྒྱ་གར (rgya gar, “India”, literally “white expanse”); the choice of yellow for Russia is unclear, but may reference the Golden Horde.

Proper noun

རྒྱ་སེར • (rgya ser)

  1. (historical) Russia

Synonyms
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