āmān

Cite this page as:	"āmān". 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_āmān (accessed 10 Nov. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “pride, arrogance”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	amāṃ
Lexeme variants:	āmān; āmāṃ
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	āmān
voc
acc	āmān
gen	āmāñis
loc
comit
inst	āmānyo
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• āmāṃ “pride, arrogance” m

  	sg
  nom	āmān
  acc	āmān
  gen	āmāñis
  inst	āmānyo

  • āmāṃṣi “pride, arrogance”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	āmānṣi	āmānṣi

  • āmānwāts “proud, arrogant”

    	pl.m
    nom	āmānwāse

Occurrences

āmāṃ

1	A 60 a6	sm-äk waro : ets	āmāṃ	treke ; rapurñeyis ṣurm
2	A 119 a1	pāpṣuneṣi śol· – – – – – ·	āmāṃ	säm : riṣakune lo
3	A 176 b2	/// b2 /// ··	āmāṃ	ṣāmnāsac träṅkäṣ ā·ā ///
4	A 329 b3	yo·i /// b3 ///	āmāṃ	śāmpānyo : tsru caṃ
5	A 390 a1	• camyo śka(ṃ) päknāṣträ	āmāṃ	/// a2 /// nasaṃyojanaṃ
6	A 390 b2	b2 /// tämyo säm	āmāṃ	pkolye āmāṃ träṅ·· ///
7	A 390 b2	tämyo säm āmāṃ pkolye	āmāṃ	träṅ·· /// b3 ///
8	A 390 b4	b4 /// säs wärce	āmāṃ	॥ aguṇa ///

Bibliography

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.