རྣམས

Tibetan

Etymology

From རྣམ་པ (rnam pa, “piece”). The ས suffix may suggest "piece by piece".

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rnams/
• Lhasa: /nam˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rnams/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nam^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /nam˥˥/

Particle

རྣམས • (rnams)

1. plural marker for nouns
   • 2019, New Tibetan Bible, Matthew 25:33:

     ལུག་རྣམས་གཡས་ཕྱོགས་དང་ར་མ་རྣམས་གཡོན་ཕྱོགས་སུ་ཡོད་པར་བྱེད་དོ༎

     lug rnams g.yas phyogs dang ra ma rnams g.yon phyogs su yod par byed do.

     And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Derived terms

• དག་རྣམས (dag rnams)

References

• “རྣམས” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.