āṣträṃ
| Cite this page as: | "āṣträṃ". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?F_A_āṣträṃn (accessed 14 Dec. 2025). |
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| Meaning: | Carling et al. 2009: “clear, pure, clean” |
| Word class: | adjective |
| Language: | TA |
| Equivalent in TB: | astare |
| Lexeme variants: | āṣträṃ; āṣträṃn |
| Number: | singular |
| Case: | accusative |
| Gender: | masculine |
Paradigm
| sg.m | sg.f | pl.m | pl.f | du.m | du.f | |
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| nom | āṣtär | āṣtri | āṣṭre | āṣtraṃ | ||
| voc | ||||||
| acc | āṣträṃ | āṣtäryāṃ | āṣtraṃ | |||
| gen | āṣtäryāp | |||||
| loc | ||||||
| comit | ||||||
| inst | āṣträṃnyo | |||||
| abl | ||||||
| perl | ||||||
| all | ||||||
| caus |
Lexeme family
- āṣtär “clear, pure, clean”
sg.m sg.f pl.m pl.f nom āṣtär āṣtri āṣṭre āṣtraṃ acc āṣträṃ āṣtäryāṃ āṣtraṃ gen āṣtäryāp inst āṣträṃnyo - āṣtrone “pureness”
n
sg pl nom āṣtrone āṣtroneyntu acc āṣtrone
- āṣtrone “pureness”
n
Occurrences
āṣträṃ
| 1 | A 63 b1 | bodhisatveṃ tsopatsäṃ kāruṇaśśäl triwont | āṣträṃ | knānmuneyo wlyepäṃ b2 |
| 2 | A 117 a2 | kus träṅkänträ kus ne | āṣträṃ | pāpṣu a3 /// tatär |
| 3 | A 125 and THT 1425.e and A 117 a2 | kus träṅkänträ kus ne | āṣträṃ | pāpṣu a3 neyaṃ ṣtmoṣ |
| 4 | A 208 a6 | okät /// a6 /// | āṣträṃ | sne tärkrumänt /// b1 |
| 5 | A 243 b3 | ; pāpṣune plyaskeṃ ; | āṣträṃ | yomunt ; winā b4 |
| 6 | A 244 a2 | śkaṃ ; wkäṃ krant | āṣträṃ | ; yso a3 – – – |
| 7 | A 247 a3 | ; (putti)śparṣiṃ ; ṣokyo | āṣträṃ | ; knāṃmune : klyomināṃ |
| 8 | A 247 a3 | ytārṣiṃ ; sne wars | āṣträṃ | wraṃ ; lāleku a4 |
| 9 | A 247 a4 | yok lukśanunt ; ṣoky= | āṣträṃ | klyomänt ; wināsam cū |
| 10 | A 247 b2 | ; wināsam-ci ; ṣokyo | āṣträṃ | ; ṣokyo litkont ; |
| 11 | A 250 b3 | wrunt ; nmāṣluneṣiṃ ; | āṣträṃ | päññis ; b4 7σ |
| 12 | A 280 a7 | /// a7 /// r | āṣträṃ | pāpṣuneyo tsmont mroskluneyo lyutāräṣ |
| 13 | A 307 b1 | kāruṇik ; pñāk ṣurmantyo | āṣträṃ | ; pāpṣune pā(ṣāt) b2 |
| 14 | A 307 b2 | (tämne-k) (näṣ) (pāṣimār) ; | (āṣträṃ) | (knānmuneyo) ; (āṣträṃ) pāpṣune |
| 15 | A 307 b2 | ; (āṣträṃ) (knānmuneyo) ; | (āṣträṃ) | pāpṣune : mäṃt ne |
| 16 | YQ II.7 b4 | b(r)āhmañi wkäṃ ; eṃtsw | āṣträṃ | : wärtaṃ ymāṃ lwā |
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.


