Lesson 5 Vocabulary Flashcards

Question

ཕ་མ་གཅིག་པའི་སྤུན་ཀྱག

Answer 1

Sibling from the same parents (ཕ་མ། = parents; གཅིག་པ། = same; སྤུན་ཀྱག = sibling, relative).

Answer 2

Daughter in law

Answer 3

Wife (སྐྱེས། = born, imperative of སྐྱེ་བ།; དམན་པ། = lower, lesser ☹). Also spelled: སྐྱེ་སྨན།

Answer 4

Spouse Partner. (Syn: ཟླ་བོ།).

Answer 5

Paternal aunt Nun. Aunty. (Also spelled: ཨ་ནེ།).

Answer 6

Paternal uncle

Answer 7

Maternal aunt (Syn: ཨ་སྲུ།).

Answer 8

Maternal uncle

Answer 9

To chat To talk. To have a conversation. (སྐད་ཆ། = conversation, chat; བཤད་པ། = to say, talk, express).

Answer 10

To dialogue (H) To talk. To chat. To have a conversation. (H) (བཀའ་ (H) = speech, as in: བཀའ་དང་བསྟན་བཅོས་ = the word [of the Buddha] and the treatises).

Answer 11

To eat Also spelled: བཟའ་བ། (future tense) (ཟ་ = to eat, as in: ཟ་ཁང་ = restaurant)

Answer 12

To say (h) To be called. To have. To take. (h) (Used in the phrase: ཁྱེད་རང་གི་མཚན་ལ་ག་རེ་ཞུ་གི་ཡོད། = (very polite): What is your name?)

Answer 13

To eat (H) To drink. To offer. To have. (H) Also: offering to offer. (མཆོད། = to offer, as in: མཆོད་རྟེན། = stupa, (lit. support for offering)).

Answer 14

To put into To pour. To place into. (As in: ཇ་བླུག་ས། = vessel for tea).

Answer 15

To be okay To be fine. To be alright. (As in the very common question: ་་་་་་ན་འགྲིག་གི་རེད་པས། = May I...? Is it okay if I...?”)

Answer 16

To make To prepare. To produce.

Answer 17

To give (སྤྲད། = to give, as in: ངོ་སྤྲོད། = introducing oneself (lit. giving one’s face)).

Answer 18

To worry To get worried. (སེམས། = mind; ཁྲལ། = grief, sorrow and tax!; བྱེད་པ། = to do).

Answer 19

To Joke To play. To kid. To tease. (རྩེད་ = game (noun) / to play, as in: རྐང་རྩེད་སྤོ་ལོ་ = football, ལག་རྩེད་སྤོ་ལོ་ = handball, etc.)

Answer 20

Filled A cup of... Full.

Answer 21

tasty Delicious. Flavorsome. (As in: ཞིམ་ཤོས་ = most tasty, tastiest).

Answer 22

Young Small. (for animals and people) (ལོ། = year, as in: ལོ་གསར། = New Year; ཆུང་ཆུང་། = small).

Answer 23

Old | for animals and people) (ལོ་ = year, as in: ལོ་གསར་ = New Year; ཆེན་པོ་ = big

Answer 24

Elderly (H) Old. (དགུང་། makes the honorific (H), also space, middle; ལོ་ཆེན་པོ། = old).

Answer 25

Devoted Someone having great faith. (དད་པ་ = faith, devotion, as in: དད་པ་གསུམ་ = the three [types of] faith; ཆེན་པོ་ = big)

Answer 26

Funny Strange. Someone who likes joking. (ཆོབ། = joke, to hide; ཚ་པོ། = hot (here used to create adjective).

Answer 27

Getting along well Being close.

Answer 28

lazy | ལེ་ལོ་ = laziness, as in: ལེ་ལོ་གསུམ་ = the three [types of] laziness; ཚ་པོ་ = same as above

Answer 29

I'm fine with whatever I am easy. Whatever you have works with me, etc. (ག་རེ་ = what; འབྱུང་ནའི་ = whatever comes; འགྲིག་གི་འདུག = it is o.k., fine)

Answer 30

Still Apart from... Also. Again. Further.

Answer 31

Mostly Majority. Most. Most part. (མང་། as in: མང་པོ། = a lot, many; ཆེ་བ། = bigger, comes from: ཆེན་པོ་ = big, large).

Answer 32

No worries! That doesn't matter. It’s not a problem, (syn: གའི་གནང་གི་མ་རེད། (H) གའི་བྱེད་ཀྱི་མ་རེད།; གའི་ = anything, nothing, ཡོད་མ་རེད། = there isn’t).

Answer 33

Father (H) | syn: ཨ་ཕ། (not H) also spelled: ཨ་པ།

Answer 34

Grandmother (H) | syn: རྨོ་ལགས་) (Not to be confused with the dumplings, མོག་མོག, those are to eat!

Answer 35

Younger sibling Later. What comes later. (འོག་ = below, underneath, མ་ makes it into a person).

Answer 36

To take (H) To have. (བཞེས། is added to words to make them honorific (H). For example: བཞེས་མོག (H) = མོག་མོག = momos; བཞེས་ཐུག (H) = ཐུག་པ། = noodles or soup).

Answer 37

Truly Real. Really. True. (དངོས། = true, as in: དངོས་པོ།; གནས། = abide, state, remain, as in: གནས་མཇལ། = pilgrimage).

Answer 38

Mandatorily Duly. Obligatorily. Really. Absolutely. At any cost! (ཡིན། = is, am; གཅིག = one; མིན། = is/am not; གཅིག = one)

Lesson 5 Vocabulary Flashcards

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