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chogyal

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Certain Sikkimese monarchs which ruled from the 15th century until 1975, at which point the monarchy was abolished.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, historical, uncountable

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History

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཆོས་རྒྱལ (chos rgyal), itself a calque of Sanskrit धर्मराज (dharmarāja, literally “Dharma king”).

Across languages

Translations

13 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bengali: চোগিয়াল (cōgiẏal) — Buddhist monarch
  • Bengali: ছোগিয়াল (chōgiẏal) — Buddhist monarch
  • Chinese Mandarin: 卻嘉 /却嘉 (quèjiā) — Buddhist monarch
  • Hindi: छोग्याल (chogyāl) — Buddhist monarch
  • Korean: 초걀 (chogyal) — Buddhist monarch
  • Malayalam: ചോഗ്യാൽ (cōgyāl) — Buddhist monarch
  • Nepali: छोग्याल (chogyāl) — Buddhist monarch
  • Russian: чогья́л (čogʹjál) — Buddhist monarch
  • Sikkimese: ཆོས་རྒྱལ (chos rgyal) — Buddhist monarch
  • Tamil: சோக்கியால் (cōkkiyāl) — Buddhist monarch
  • Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྱལ (chos rgyal) — Buddhist monarch
  • Ukrainian: чоґ'я́л (čogʺjál) — Buddhist monarch
  • Urdu: چوگیال (cogyāl) — Buddhist monarch