Where does “མཚམས་པ” come from?
མཚམས་པ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan པ — a nominalization suffix.
མཚམས་པ (Tibetan): retreatant, hermit
Definitions
- retreatant, hermit
Ancestry of “མཚམས་པ”, step by step
མཚམས་པ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan པ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | པ | a nominalization suffix |
via Tibetan མཚམས
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | མཚམས | border, interval, partition, boundary, limit |