ciñcär
| Cite this page as: | "ciñcär". 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_ciñcär (accessed 22 Jan. 2026). |
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| Meaning: | Carling et al. 2009: “lovely, delightful” |
| Word class: | adjective |
| Language: | TA |
| Equivalent in TB: | cäñcare |
| Lexeme variants: | ciñcär; cäñcär; ciñcr |
| Number: | singular |
| Case: | nominative |
| Gender: | masculine |
| Inflection class: | |
| Nom. sg. (masc.): | -Ø |
| Obl. sg. (masc.): | -äṃ |
| Nom. pl. (masc.): | -e |
Paradigm
| sg.m | sg.f | pl.m | pl.f | du.m | du.f | |
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| nom | ciñcär, ciñcr-äkk | ciñcri | ciñcre | ciñcraṃ | ||
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| acc | ciñcräṃ | ciñcäryāṃ | ciñcres | ciñcraṃ | ||
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Lexeme family
- ciñcär “lovely, delightful”
sg.m sg.f pl.m pl.f nom ciñcär, ciñcr-äkk ciñcri ciñcre ciñcraṃ acc ciñcräṃ ciñcäryāṃ ciñcres ciñcraṃ - ciñcrone “pleasantness”
n
sg pl nom ciñcrone ciñcroneyäntu acc ciñcrone ciñcroneyäntu comit ciñcroneyäśśäl inst ciñcroneyo - ciñcroneṣi “belonging to pleasantness”
sg.m sg.f nom ciñcroneṣi ciñcroneṣi
- ciñcroneṣi “belonging to pleasantness”
- ciñcrone “pleasantness”
n
Occurrences
cäñcär
| 1 | A 318 and 319 b1 | (ṣul)y(iṃ) ; himavant ; | cäñcär | käln{a→ä}ṣ : 3 – – – |
ciñcär
| 1 | A 17 a6 | pñintuyo pälkäṣ ; amok | ciñcär | ; wrasaśśi : pñiṣiṃ |
| 2 | A 54 a5 | /// a5 pñi ymār | ciñcär | tsopatsäṃ oko eṣ ॥ |
| 3 | A 68 b2 | °tsuneśśi tsaraṃ lyutār memaṣ | ciñcär | pälk ॥ tuṣitabhavnaṃ ॥ |
| 4 | A 114 b1 | b1 /// kāsu klyom | ciñc(ä)r | mskatä b2 /// pältskäṣ |
| 5 | A 145 a1 | ; pñāk kursärwā ; | ciñcär | wräṣ : oktuk kursärwā |
| 6 | A 153 b4 | ats träṅkäṣ ote täpreṃ | ciñcär | wa /// b5 /// |
| 7 | A 230 a2 | ; mäskatr-äṃ : 50-3 | (ci)ñcär | mā weñäṣ ; klyosäṃṣantāñ |
| 8 | A 257 a6 | āṣānikāṃ metra(käṃ) (bodhisatvāṃ) (ko)a6spreṃ | ciñcär | ॥ keśikaṃ ॥ pol(k)ā(ts) |
| 9 | A 265 a7 | yokās swāñcenāsyo lyutār memaṣ | ciñcär | pälkäṣ ॥ saṃt· /// |
| 10 | A 292 b2 | lyutār memaṣ ārki | ciñcär | kum ā(pat) (sāspärtwu) /// |
| 11 | A 314 a7 | tsar ; to ṣeṣ | ciñcär | : vājjärr oki ; |
| 12 | A 314 a8 | (akma)l ; 1σ s·rpärts | ciñcär | ; kā(w)älte ; ṣñike= |
| 13 | A 315 and 316 b5 | pārenā puttiśpa(rṣi) (parijā)tträ ṣokyo | ciñcär | pälke /// b6 ts |
| 14 | A 322 a8 | tkaṃṣi tspok säm swār | ciñcär | – – säṣ ṣ·· /// |
| 15 | A 377 a4 | a4 8σ /// | ciñcär | ; praṅk(a-)praṅk : sne |
| 16 | YQ II.2 b6 | cacluräṣ ālamb6(-wäc) /// (ko)spreṃ | ciñcär | kospreṃ nu parno pälkäṣ |
ciñcr
| 1 | A 158 a3 | a3 /// ṣ lyutār | ciñcr | akmal aṣuk /// a4 |
| 2 | THT 2041 b2 | sä /// b2 /// | ciñcr | o /// b3 /// |
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
