ཆོས་རྒྱལ

Tibetan

Etymology

Compound of ཆོས (chos) +‎ རྒྱལ (rgyal), a calque of Sanskrit धर्मराज (dharmarāja)

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*t͡ɕʰos.rɡʲal/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰøː˥˥.cɛː˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*t͡ɕʰos.rɡʲal/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: qoe^f-gyae^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰøː˥˥.cɛː˥˥/

Noun

ཆོས་རྒྱལ • (chos rgyal)

dharma king, chogyal (one of several Buddhist monarchs in the Tibetan cultural sphere)

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