སྐྱག་པ
skyag pa
སྐྱག་པ (skyag pa) is the Tibetan word for poop.
The word is a noun used to refer to feces.
Meaning: feces (noun)
How do you pronounce it?
skyag pa
Did you know?
- In certain Buddhist contexts, the concept of bodily waste like སྐྱག་པ is used in meditations on 'impurity' to help practitioners detach from physical cravings.
- In some rural regions of the Tibetan Plateau, dried སྐྱག་པ from yaks is collected and used as a vital fuel source for heating and cooking.
- In traditional Tibetan medicine, the consistency and color of སྐྱག་པ are analyzed as primary diagnostic tools to determine the balance of the three bodily humors.
Example conversation
A woman and a man are cleaning a yard.
- ཚེ་རིང་མོ། Tseringmoརིནཅེན། སྐྱག་པ་འདི་བདག་རོགས་གཙང་བཟོ།Rinchen, skyag pa 'di bdag rogs gtsang bzo.Rinchen, please clean up this poop.
- རིནཅེན། Rinchenངས་ད་ལྟ་གཙང་བཟོ་གི་ཡིན།ngas da lta gtsang bzo gi yin.I will clean it up now.
- ཚེ་རིང་མོ། Tseringmoསྐྱག་པ་འདི་ག་པའི་རེས་ཡིན།skyag pa 'di ga pa'i res yin.Whose poop is this?
- རིནཅེན། Rinchenའདི་ཁྱིའི་སྐྱག་པ་རེས་ཡིན།'di khyi'i skyag pa res yin.This is the dog's poop.
