Dzongkha

Noun

རྒྱལ་པོ ‎(rgyal po)

1. king, ruler's title

Derived terms

• འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ ‎('brug rgyal po, “the king of Bhutan”)

Tibetan

Etymology

རྒྱལ ‎(rgyal, “royal, regal”) +‎ པོ ‎(po, “nominalisation/agent suffix”)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rgʲal.po/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan Pinyin: gyae^v-bo^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /cɛː˩˧.po˥˥/

Noun

རྒྱལ་པོ • ‎(rgyal po)

1. king, ruler's title
2. a class of spirit