brāmnās
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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: | brāmnās |
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| Number: | plural |
| Case: | accusative |
| Gender: | masculine |
| Inflection class: |
| Nom. sg. (masc.): | -Ø |
| Obl. sg. (masc.): | -Ø |
| Nom. pl. (masc.): | -āñ |
Paradigm
Lexeme family
- brāmaṃ “Brahmin, member of the Brahmanic caste, a Brahmanic teacher or priest”
m
- brāhmaṇiṃ “of a brahmin”
- brāmnune “brahminhood”
n
- brāmnuneṣi “of brahminhood”
- brāhmañi “brahmanic”
- brāmnāñc “wife of a Brahmin”
f
Occurrences
brāmnās
Bibliography
Carling and Pinault 2023
Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.