chogyal
chogyal noun: certain Sikkimese monarchs which ruled from the 15th century until 1975, at which point the monarchy was abolished.
Noun
chogyal or the chogyal (countable and uncountable, plural chogyals)
chogyal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
chogyal in Hindi
- Buddhist monarch
- छोग्याल chogyāl
chogyal in Tamil
- Buddhist monarch
- சோக்கியால் cōkkiyāl
chogyal in Urdu
- Buddhist monarch
- چوگیال cogyāl
chogyal in Bengali
- Buddhist monarch
- চোগিয়াল cōgiẏal, ছোগিয়াল chōgiẏal
More languagesFewer languages
- chogyal in Malayalam
- ചോഗ്യാൽ cōgyāl
- chogyal in Gujarati
- છોગ્યાલ chogyāl
- chogyal in Nepali
- छोग्याल chogyāl
Forms of chogyal
| plural | chogyals |
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Origin of chogyal
Borrowed from Tibetan ཆོས་རྒྱལ (chos rgyal), itself a calque of Sanskrit धर्मराज (dharmarāja, literally “Dharma king”).
Questions about chogyal
- What does chogyal mean?
- Chogyal means certain Sikkimese monarchs which ruled from the 15th century until 1975, at which point the monarchy was abolished.
- What is chogyal in Hindi?
- Chogyal in Hindi is छोग्याल (chogyāl). See Chogyal meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is chogyal?
- Chogyal is a noun.
- What is the plural of chogyal?
- The plural of chogyal is chogyals.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chogyal (page history and authors); છોગ્યાલ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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