ཐེའུ

Tibetan

Alternative forms

Etymology

More common form of Tibetan ཐེ (the).[1] Likely from ཐེ (the) +‎ ེའུ (e'au, diminutive suffix).

Noun

ཐེའུ • (the'u)

  1. (religion) Alternative form of ཐེའུ་རང (the'u rang, “type of demon”)
    Synonym: ཐེ་བྲང (the brang)
  2. seal, signet, stamp
    Synonyms: དམ་ཕྲུག (dam phrug), ཐེ་མོ (the mo)
  3. flower, bud
    Synonym: མེ་ཏོག (me tog)
  4. small hammer

References
  • “ཐེའུ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  1. Siklós, Bulcsu (1988). Review of 'A Sinologist’s Handlist of Sino-Tibetan Lexical Comparisons, by W. S. Coblin'. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1, 242–243.
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