Where does “ཆོས་རྒྱལ” come from?

ཆོས་རྒྱལ (Tibetan) comes from Sanskrit धर्मराज, from Sanskrit राजन्, from Proto-Indo-Aryan Hrā́ȷ́ā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian Hrā́ȷ́ā, from Proto-Indo-European h₃rḗǵs, from Proto-Indo-European h₃reǵ- — to straighten, to right oneself; right; just.

ཆོས་རྒྱལ (Tibetan): dharma king, chogyal one of several Buddhist monarchs in the Tibetan cultural sphere

Definitions

  1. dharma king, chogyal one of several Buddhist monarchs in the Tibetan cultural sphere

Ancestry of “ཆོས་རྒྱལ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sanskritधर्मराजan epithet of यमराज
2Sanskritराजन्a king, sovereign, prince, chief; a man of the...
3Proto-Indo-AryanHrā́ȷ́āking
4Proto-Indo-IranianHrā́ȷ́ā—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃rḗǵsking, ruler
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃reǵ-to straighten, to right oneself; right; just
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₃reǵ- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₃rḗǵs →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian Hrā́ȷ́ā →