སངས་རྒྱས
Tibetan
Etymology
Calque of Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “Buddha; awakened”), from སངས (sangs, “purified; cleansed”) + རྒྱས (rgyas, “extended; fully grown; spread”), literally “the awakened-blossomed one”, meaning that the Buddha has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and spread his mind to all objects of knowledge.
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*saŋs.rɡʲas/
- Lhasa: /saŋ˥˥.cɛː˥˩/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*saŋs.rɡʲas/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: sangf-gyaeh
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /saŋ˥˥.cɛː˥˩/
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