Where does “པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ” come from?
པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ (Tibetan) comes from Sanskrit पण्डित, from Sanskrit -इत, from Proto-Indo-Iranian -tás, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.
པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ (Tibetan): Panchen Lama
Definitions
- Panchen Lama
Ancestry of “པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ”, step by step
པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Sanskrit पण्डित
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sanskrit | पण्डित | learned, wise, shrewd, clever, skilful in,... |
| 2 | Sanskrit | -इत | forms adjectives from nouns: -ed, having, furnished with |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | -tás | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
via Tibetan བླ་མ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
via Tibetan ཆེན་པོ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཆེན་པོ | big, large, great |