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Dalai Lama

Today it means: The supreme head of Tibetan Buddhism, believed to be an incarnation of Avalokitesvara, and considered the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. Full definition →

Tibetan ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ ← Mongolian ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ

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Mongolian · derived fromᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ“ocean”
Tibetan · borrowed fromཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ
English todayDalai Lama

Borrowed from Tibetan ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ (tā la'i bla ma), compound of Mongolian ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ (dalai, “ocean”) + Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma, “lama”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.