Where does “བྱི་རུག་པ” come from?

བྱི་རུག་པ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan པ — a nominalization suffix.

བྱི་རུག་པ (Tibetan): various plants of the mint family, primarily Elsholtzia, especially Elsholtzia densa, but also including Nepeta, Schizonepeta and Mentha, used in traditional medicine

Definitions

  1. various plants of the mint family, primarily Elsholtzia, especially Elsholtzia densa, but also including Nepeta, Schizonepeta and Mentha, used in traditional medicine

Ancestry of “བྱི་རུག་པ”, step by step

བྱི་རུག་པ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetana nominalization suffix

via Tibetan བྱི་རུག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབྱི་རུགvarious plants of the mint family, primarily Elsholtzia, and also Nepeta, Schizonepeta and Mentha, used in traditional medicine
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