Where does “ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ” come from?
ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan བླ་མ, from Tibetan མ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ma — no, not, negative, not have, none.
ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ (Tibetan): Dalai Lama
Ancestry of “ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Tibetan | བླ་མ | lama - an accomplished spiritual teacher, guru |
| 2 | Tibetan | མ | mother; goddess; negates the following verb in... |
| 3 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | ma | no, not, negative, not have, none |
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