གཤིན་རྒྱལ

Tibetan

Etymology

From གཤིན (gshin, “death, the dead”) +‎ རྒྱལ་པོ (rgyal po, “king, lord”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kɕin.rɡʲal/
• Lhasa: /ʂĩ˥˥.ɟɛːˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kɕin.rɡʲal/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: shin^f-ghyae
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʂĩ˥˥.ɟɛːˑ/

Proper noun

གཤིན་རྒྱལ • (gshin rgyal)

1. (Hinduism) Yama, the Hindu god of death
2. (astronomy) Pluto, the dwarf planet and Kuiper Belt object

   Synonym: གཤིན་རྒྱལ་སྐར་མ (gshin rgyal skar ma)

References

• “གཤིན་རྒྱལ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “གཤིན་རྒྱལ་སྐར་མ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.