དུས་ཚོད
Tibetan
Etymology
དུས (dus, “time”) + ཚོད (tshod, “measure, frequency”). First recorded in the biography of the 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, in a tribute offering dating from 1698, originally in reference to European mechanical clocks.[1]
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*dus.t͡sʰot/
- Lhasa: /tʰyː˩˨.t͡søː˥˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*dus.t͡sʰot/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: tuev-zoeh
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /tʰyː˩˨.t͡søː˥˨/
Noun
དུས་ཚོད • (dus tshod)
- time
- Synonym: དུས (dus)
- དུས་ཚོད་འཕྲོ་བརླག ― dus tshod 'phro brlag ― waste of time
- moment
- time period, season
- schedule
- two-hour period of the day
References
- “དུས་ཚོད” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
- Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984), English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 444