kār

Cite this page as:	"kār". 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_kār (accessed 06 Feb. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “pit, hole, opening”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kare
Lexeme variants:	kār
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kār	kāräntu
voc
acc	kār	kāräntu
gen
loc	kāraṃ
comit
inst
abl
perl	kārā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kār “pit, hole, opening” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	kār	kāräntu
  acc	kār	kāräntu
  loc	kāraṃ
  perl	kārā

Occurrences

kār

1	A 456.b b3	b3 /// l·	kār	pärskāl anäṣ ///
2	THT 1645.l a1	a1 /// –	kār	ā /// a2 ///

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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