དཔའ་བོ

Tibetan

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*tpa(ɣ).bo/
Lhasa: /pa˥˥.wo˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*tpa(ɣ).bo/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ba^f-wo^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pa˥˥.wo˥˥/

Adjective

དཔའ་བོ • (dpa' bo)

heroic
brave, courageous

Noun

དཔའ་བོ • (dpa' bo)

hero
warrior
a daka, the male equivalent of a dakini
a vīra, or transcended practitioner of tantric (Vajrayana) Buddhism

Derived terms

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ (byang chub sems dpa', “bodhisattva”)

References

Yu, Daoquan (于道泉), chief editor; Fu, Jiazhang (傅家璋), editor (1983), 藏汉对照拉萨口语词典 (in Chinese), Beijing: The Ethnic Publishing House, page 652