brāmnā

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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 TB:	brāhmaṇe
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. brāhmaṇa-
Lexeme variants:	brāmnā
Number:	singular
Case:	perlative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-āñ

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	brāmaṃ	brāmnāñ
voc
acc	brāmaṃ	brāmnās
gen	brāmne	brāmnāśśi
loc
comit
inst
abl	brāmnäṣ	brāmnāsäṣ
perl	brāmnā
all	brāmnac
caus

Lexeme family

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

  	sg	pl
  nom	brāmaṃ	brāmnāñ
  acc	brāmaṃ	brāmnās
  gen	brāmne	brāmnāśśi
  abl	brāmnäṣ	brāmnāsäṣ
  perl	brāmnā
  all	brāmnac

  • brāhmaṇiṃ “of a brahmin”

    	sg.m
    acc	brāhmaṇiṃ

  • brāmnune “brahminhood” n

    	sg
    nom	brāmnune
    acc	brāmnune

    • brāmnuneṣi “of brahminhood”

      	sg.m
      nom	brāmnuneṣi

  • brāhmañi “brahmanic”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m
    nom	prāmañi	brāmaṇi
    acc	brāhmañi		brāmmañinäs

  • brāmnāñc “wife of a Brahmin” f

    	sg
    loc	brāmnāñcānaṃ

Occurrences

brāmnā

1	YQ I.7 a2	ārkiśoṣṣaṃ pākär naslune bādhariṃ	brāmnā	a3 (śärsässi) (wotäk) (॥)
2	YQ I.7 b4	tmäṣ bādhari brāmmaṃ nirdhaneṃ	brāmnā	warśeṃ kto • śla

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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