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༄༅༅། །བོད་སྐད་ཀྱི་མིང་ཀི་མཛོད​།

A

DICTIONARY

OF

THE TIBETAN LANGUAGE.

, The first letter in the Tibetan alphabet; in numerals it stands for one; as an additional syllable to many words, it denotes time, season ; the, all the, very, the very, &c.

ཀ་པ, a volume or any thing else marked with ; first.

ཀ་ཐོ, an alphabetical register.

ཀ་དཔེ, an A B C book.

ཀ་གྲེང་, the series of the consonants of the alphabet ; v. ?ལི. (Symbol missingTibetan characters)

ཀྲ, interj. Oh! holla!

ཀ།ཀ་བ​, a pillar, column; post, stake, support.

ཀ་གདན​, ཀ་?གས​, the pedestal or basis of a pillar. (Symbol missingTibetan characters)

ཀ་གཞུ​, a piece of timber in the shape of a bow, put on a pillar, to hold up the main beam.

, the base, bottom, foot, of a pillar.

, the body or shaft of ditto.

, the neck of ditto.

, , the upper part or capital of ditto.

, adj. used substantively, having but one pillar.

, adj. having many pillars.

, having a pillar.

, adj. without a pillar.

, A reeded or fluted pillar.

, a long pillar.

, a short pillar.

, an assemblage of many pillars.

, name of a bird, a crow.

, s. small money, in ancient India; in value twenty shells or cowries.

, a medicinal fruit, a sort of spice.

, the alphabet.

, adj. of, or belonging to, the alphabet, alphabetical.

, an alphabetical register.

, an A B C book.

, one learning the alphabet.

, s. effects, goods, movables, furniture.

, a large vessel of metal, a bason,

, adj. pure from the beginning.

, the skull.

, a gourd ; a sort of medicinal fruit.

, s. the water-lily, the lotus.

ཀ་ར, s. sugar.