śaṅk
| Cite this page as: | "śaṅk". 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_śaṅk (accessed 09 Jun. 2026). |
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| Meaning: | “a shell, the conch-shell” |
| Word class: | noun |
| Language: | TA |
| Equivalent in TB: | śaṅke |
| Equivalent in other languages: | Skt. śaṅkha- |
| Lexeme variants: | śaṅk |
| Number: | singular |
| Case: | nominative; accusative |
| Gender: | masculine |
Paradigm
| sg | pl | du | |
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| nom | śaṅk | ||
| voc | |||
| acc | śaṅk | ||
| gen | |||
| loc | |||
| comit | |||
| inst | |||
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| perl | |||
| all | |||
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Lexeme family
- śaṅk “a shell, the conch-shell”
m
sg nom śaṅk acc śaṅk - śaṃkum “mother-of-pearl”
m
sg nom śaṃkum
- śaṃkum “mother-of-pearl”
m
Occurrences
śaṅk
| 1 | A 355 a4 | wlāññäktes wācrä ; wisṇuy | śaṅk | maṅkal (:) mahiśvara ; |
| 2 | A 356 a1 | plyaskeṃ wlāññäktes vājrä viṣṇuy | śaṅk | maṅkal • mahiśvari a2 |
