From Sanskrit
- པདྨ་ “Lotus” (padma)
- སེངྒེ་ “Lion” (siṃha)
- བྱི་ལ་ “Cat” (biḍāla, Prakrit bila)
- མ་ཎི་ “Jewel” (maṇi)
- ཙན་དན་ “Sandalwood” (candana)[1]
- མུ་ཏིག་ “Pearl” (muktika)
- གུ་རུ་ “Master” (guru)
- པོ་ཏི་ “Volume,” “Book” (pustika)
- པོ་ཏ་ལ་ “Potala Palace” (pota, meaning “boat”)
[1] One of the rare loan words borrowed by both European languages and Tibetan is the word sandal in sandalwood and the Tibetan word ཙན་དན་ which have the same Sanskrit origin. See Stephan Beyer, The Classical Tibetan Language (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992), 142.