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Lesson 8 Vocabulary - English Flashcards

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ཁ་ལག

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Food

ཁ། = mouth; ལག་པ། = hand

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ཞལ་ལག

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Food (H)

(ཞལ། = mouth (H); ལག་པ། = hand).

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གསོལ་ཚིགས།

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Dinner (H)

Food (H). (གསོལ། = Entertainment, offering, honorific marker; ཚིགས། = link).

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ཇ་ཁང་།

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Tea bar

Tea shop. Tea stall. (ཇ། = tea; ཁང་པ། = house, building). (Syn: ཇ་འཐུང་ས།).

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ཆང་ཁང་།

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Bar

Pub. (ཆང་། = chang, rice or barley beer; ཁང་པ། = house, building)

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རྩམ་པ།

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Roasted flour

Tsampa. (As in: འོ་རྩམ། = milk powder, lit. milk tsampa).

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འཐེན་ཐུག

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Handmade noodle soup

(འཐེན་པ། = to pull, as in: ཐ་མག་འཐེན་པ། = to smoke; ཐུག = noodle, soup).

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རྩམ་ཐུག

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Porridge made out of tsampa

Tsampa’s soup. (རྩམ་པ། = tsampa, roasted flour; ཐུག་པ། = soup).

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བཞེས་ཐུག

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Soup (H)

(བཞེས། makes it honorific, as in: བཞེས་ཁོག = potatoes (H), བཞེས་མོག = momo (H); ཐུག་པ། = soup).

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མོག་ཐུག

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Dumplings soup

Momos in soup. (མོག་མོག = momos; ཐུག་པ། = soup).

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ཐང་།

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Soup

(As in: ཇ་ཐང་། = plain tea). Almost syn: ཁུ་བ།

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བཞེས་མོག

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Dumpling (H)

Momo. (བཞེས། = items, food and drink clothing etc. to be enjoyed, joined (H), honorific particle; མོག་མོག = momos).

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ཤ།

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Meat

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ཤ་མེད།

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Vegetarian

(ཤ། = meat; མེད། = negation).

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འབྲས།

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Rice

(As in: འབྲས་བུ། = result, fruition; ལས་རྒྱུ་འབྲས། = karma, cause and effect).

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ཤ་བག་ལེབ།

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Meat-bread

Shabaley. (ཤ། = meat; བག་ལེབ། = bread).

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སི་པན།

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Chili

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ཚལ།

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Vegetable

(As in: ཚལ་ཐོ། = menu).

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གྲང་ཚལ།

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Salad

(གྲང་། = cold; ཚལ། = vegetable). (Syn: ཚལ་རྗེན་པ།).

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ཙོང་།

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onion

(As in: རྗེ་ཙོང་ཁ་པ། = Master Tsongkhapa). Also spelled: བཙོང་།

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ཤ་མོ།

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Mushroom

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སྒོ་ང་།

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Egg

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སྣུམ།

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Oil

(As in: ས་སྣུམ།= petroleum).

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ཤིང་ཏོག་ཁུ་བ།

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Fruit juice

(ཤིང་ཏོག = fruit, as in: ཤིང་སྡོང་། = tree; ལོ་ཏོག = crops, harvest - ཏོག = tip, top - ; ཁུ་བ། = juice, brow).

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བྲོ་བ།
Taste Flavour. (As in: བྲོ་བ་ཆེན་པོ། = tasty, flavorful, having great taste).
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སྦྱིན་བདག
Patron Sponsor. Benefactor. Restauran owner. (སྦྱིན་པ། = generosity; བདག = self, ego, essence, as in: བདག་པོ། = owner).
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ཞབས་ཞུ་བ།
Waiter (ཞབས། = leg (H); ཞུ་བ། = to take, to drink, to say (h)).
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ཞབས་ཞུ་མ།
Waitress (ཞབས། = leg (H); ཞུ་བ། = to take, to drink, to say (h); མ། = female).
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གྲོད་ཁོག
Stomach (ཁོག་པ། = vessel, container, the inside, as in: གྲོད་ཁོག་ལྟོགས་པ། = to be hungry). (Syn: གྲོད་པ།).
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མ་བྱན།
Cook (མ། = mother, goddess; བྱན། = cook, housewife).
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ཐབ་ཚང་།
Kitchen (ཐབ། = stove; ཚང་། = abode, nest, as in: ).
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སྒོར་མོ།
Currency (སྒོར་མོ། = disc, ball, as in: ཨ་སྒོར། = dollars, short for: ཨ་རིའི་སྒོར་མོ།).
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ཐ་པག
Plate Dish. (Syn: སྡེར་མ།).
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གྲི།
Knife
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རྐང་ཊ།
Fork (རྐང་། = marrow bones, kernel, as in: རྐང་པ། = leg, foot).
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ཐུར་མ།
Spoon
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ཁོ་ཙེ།
Chopsticks
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སྐད་གཏོང་བ།
To invite To call over. To call. (སྐད། = voice, language).
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ཁ་ལག་མངག་པ།
To order food (མངག = order, to entrust, to delegate).
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མཆོད་པ།
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)).
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འཐུང་བ།
To drink
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རྩིས་རྒྱག་པ།
To calculate To do astrological calculus. To bring the bill. (As in: ཨང་རྩིས། = mathematics, སྨན་རྩིས་ཁང་། = (Tibetan Medical & Astrological Institute); རྒྱག་པ། = to do, to make).
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མང་དྲགས་པ།
To be too much To be excessive. (མང་། = མང་པོ། = a lot; དྲགས་པ། = too much, as in: ཉུང་དྲགས་པ། = to be too little).
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ཨུ་ཚུགས་རྒྱག་པ།
To insist (ཨུ་ཚུགས། = insistence, persistence - ཚུགས། = resistance, to be able -; རྒྱག་པ། = to do).
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འཁྲུད་པ།
To wash (As in: ཁྲུས་ཁང་། = bathroom).
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པགས་པ་བཤུ་བ།
To peel (པགས་པ། = skin, peel; བཤུ་བ། = to peel).
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ལ་ཤད་རྒྱག་པ།
To grate (ལ། as in ལ་ཕུག = radish; ཤད། as in: སྐྲ་ཤད། = comb; རྒྱག་པ། = to do).
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རྔོད་པ།
To fry (As in: ཐུག་པ་བརྔོས་མ། = chow mein, fried noodles).
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མེ་གཏོང་བ།
To put the fire/stove on. (མེ། = fire).
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དཀྲུག་དཀྲུག་གཏོང་བ།
To stir
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འཚིག་པ།
To get burned (As in: འཚིག་ཇ། = coffee).
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ཨ་སློག་རྒྱག་པ།
To flip To turn over. Turn upside down. (སློག = to reverse, return).
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གཏུབ་པ།
To cut. To chop.
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བཞུ་བ།
To melt
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སྐོལ་བ།
To boil [a liquids]
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གྲོད་ཁོག་ལྟོགས་པ།
To feel hungry (གྲོད་ཁོག = stomach - ཁོག = interior of body -; ལྟོགས་པ། = to feel hungry). Also spelled: གྲོད་ཁག་ལྟོགས་པ།.
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སྟབས་བདེ་པོ།
Handy Simple. Practical. Convenient to handle or use.
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གཙང་མ།
Clean
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ཚྭ་ཁུ།
Salty (ཚྭ། = salt, not to be confused with: ཚ། = hot; ཁུ། = fluid, broth, soup, semen).
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ཁ་ཚ་པོ།
Spicy | ཁ། = mouth; ཚ་པོ། = hot
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སོས་པ།
Fresh Not old (for food, vegetables, etc.) (As in: སོས་པ་སོས་རྐྱང་། = completely fresh).
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སྔོན་ལ།
Before First. In the beginning. (As in: སྔོན་འགྲོ། = preliminary practices).
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་་་ན་འགྲིག་གི་རེད་པས།
Is it fine if… Shall we if... ? Is it OK if... ? May I,... ? (ན། = if; འགྲིག་གི་རེད་པས། = Is it OK?)
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ལྷག་མ།
Left Left over. (ཐུག་ལྷག = leftover stew, soup).
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དང་པོ།
First At first
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ཏག་ཏག་རེད།
Perfect! Exactly!
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མཚམས་མཚམས་ལ།
Occasionally Once in a while. From time to time.
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རྗེས་ལ།
Afterwards After that. Later. (རྗེས། = after, as in: རྗེས་འཇུག = suffix, letter which comes after).
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ཁྱོན་བསྡོམས།
Total The sum of... Everything counted together. (ཁྱོན། = size, measurement, area, extension; བསྡོམ་པ། = to summarize, to combine, to add).
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མོག་མོག
Dumplings Momos. (Not to be confused with: རྨོ་རྨོ། (high tone) as in : ང་རྨོ་རྨོ་ཟ་གི་ཡིན། = I'll eat my grandmother! ☺).
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ཞོག་ཁོག
Potato (ཞོག = to place; ཁོག = interior). Note: many Tibetans in exile say: ཨ་ལུ།, which is Hindi and Nepali.
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སྒོག་པ།
Garlic
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ཆང་།
[Rice] Beer Chang. Barley beer. (ཆང་། as in: ཆང་ས། = wedding).
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ཆབ།
Water (H) (As in: ཆབ་གསང་། = toilet (H)).
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ཕོར་པ།
Bowl
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ཧ་ཡང་།
Pot. Pan.
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ཚལ་ཐོ།
Menu (ཚལ། = vegetable; ཐོ། = list, catalogue, index, as in: ལོ་ཐོ། = calendar). Syn: ཟས་ཐོ།.
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ཁ་ལག་བཟོ་བ།
To cook To make food. To prepare food. (ཁ་ལག = food; བཟོ་བ། = to make, also used with other nouns).
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འཚོད་པ།
To cook To boil [solid food]
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གྲོད་པ་བརྒྱགས་པ།
to be satisfied To feel full. (གྲོད་ཁོག = stomach; བརྒྱགས་པ། = to feel full).
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རག་པ།
To get Obtain. Receive. To be available.
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མགྱོགས་པོ།
Fast. Quick. Soon.
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ཤ་མེད་རྐྱང་རྐྱང་།
All vegetarian Exclusively vegetarian. (ཤ། = meat; མེད། = negation; རྐྱང་རྐྱང་། = only, exclusively).
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ཡོད་དང་ཡོད།
Of course! Certainly! Without any doubt!

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