Where does “རེས་གཟའ” come from?

རེས་གཟའ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan གཟའ — planet; the corresponding day of the week; Rahu.

རེས་གཟའ (Tibetan): the planets, stars

Definitions

  1. the planets, stars

Ancestry of “རེས་གཟའ”, step by step

རེས་གཟའ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan གཟའ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanགཟའplanet; the corresponding day of the week; Rahu

via Tibetan རེས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརེས
Every word from Tibetan གཟའ
རེས་གཟའ — Etymology, Origin & Word History | Etymology Explorer