གྲྭ་པ

Tibetan

Alternative forms

གྲ་པ (gra pa)

Etymology

གྲྭ (grwa) +‎ པ (pa, “nominalization suffix”)

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*grʷa.pa/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰa˩˧˨.paˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*grʷa.pa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: cha^w-ba
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰa˩˧˨.paˑ/

Noun

གྲྭ་པ • (grwa pa)

(Tibetan Buddhism) monk
གྲྭ་པ་མེད་པའི་མཁན་པོ་
grwa pa med pa'i mkhan po
an abbot without any monks

Derived terms

གྲྭ་ཁང (grwa khang)
གྲྭ་ཆུང (grwa chung)

Related terms

དགེ་སློང (dge slong)
དགེ་འདུན་པ (dge 'dun pa)
ཧྭ་ཤང (hwa shang)

References

“གྲྭ་པ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
“གྲྭ་པ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.

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