brāhmaṃ

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “Brahmin, member of the Brahmanic caste, a Brahmanic teacher or priest”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. brāhmaṇa-
Lexeme variants:	brāhmaṃ
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	brāhmaṃ
voc
acc	brāhmaṃ	prāhmnās
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• brāhmaṃ “Brahmin, member of the Brahmanic caste, a Brahmanic teacher or priest” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	brāhmaṃ
  acc	brāhmaṃ	prāhmnās

Occurrences

brāhmaṃ

1	A 111 b5	b5 /// (yāmäṣt) umpar	brāhmaṃ	tu kuyalte mā yat
2	A 212 a5	॥ tmäṣ säm bādhari	brāhmaṃ	ṣäññuneyā ylār ā ///
3	A 213 b2	/// cäṃ • bādhari	brāhmaṃ	kuc kotraṣ • kospreṃ
4	A 288 b2	śuddhavāṣinäs ñäkta(sā) (śaśärsu) (bādhariṃ)	(brāhmaṃ)	(raryuräṣ) b3 ptāñktac waṣtäṣ
5	A 343 b3	– – brāmnac (t)räṅkiñc hai	br{a→ā}hma(ṃ)	/// b4 – (o)mäskeṃ
6	A 359 a6	– – – – – ·or·i·ä a6 kātse	brāhmaṃ	। vāso pi (h)i
7	YQ I.1 a3	(śuddhavāṣinäs) ñäktasā śaśärsu bādhariṃ	brāhmaṃ	raryuräa4(ṣ) /// (ptāñktac) (waṣtäṣ)
8	YQ I.1 b1	• nmob1(sāṃ) (kapśiñño) (bādhari)	(brāhmaṃ)	(•) (meträkyāp) (tsarā) (tsitoräṣ)
9	YQ I.4 b3	/// (mana)rkāñ bādhariṃ	brāhmaṃ	āmpārc sesanträ • tmäṣ
10	YQ I.4 b3	sesanträ • tmäṣ bādhari	brāhmaṃ	ṣñi kapśib4(ññis) /// (w)äṣpā
11	YQ I.6 a1	a1 /// (bādhari)	(brā)hma(ṃ)	ṣñi waṣtwaṃ kakmuräṣ plumāa2(nn)
12	YQ I.6 a3	॥ tmäṣ kumnäṣ nirdhane	brāa4(hmaṃ)	/// (träṅ)käṣ bho bho
13	YQ I.7 b5	/// (ku)s ne täm	brāhmaṃ	ṣpät pāk pkāt-ñi mrāc
14	YQ I.8 a4	॥ täm kaklyuṣuräṣ bādhari	brāhmaṃ	tsātsärwu a5
15	YQ I.8 a8	1 ॥ tmäṣ bādhari	brāhmaṃ	ptāñkät käṣyāp ñom b1
16	YQ I.10 a4	॥ täm kaklyuṣuräṣ bādhari	brāhmaṃ	pāṣānak ṣua5(lis) /// ṣ
17	YQ II.3 a5	āa5(ṣānik) (metrak) /// (bādha)ri	brāhmaṃ	mokoneyo lyutār nāṃtsu tärmmāṃ
18	YQ II.4 a4	॥ tmäṣ säm bādhari	brāhmaṃ	ṣäññuneyā ylāa5(r) (ā) ///
19	YQ II.5 a6	sañce ppärksāc-äṃ • bādhariṃ	brāhmaṃ	kua7(c) (kotraṣ) (•) (kospreṃ)

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.