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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

  1. Panchen Lama

Ancestry of “པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sanskritपण्डितlearned, wise, shrewd, clever, skilful in,...
2Sanskrit-इत—
3Proto-Indo-Iranian-tásCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems

Words derived from “པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ”

  • 班禪喇嘛
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