kārāśaṃ

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “jungle, wilderness”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	karāś
Lexeme variants:	kārāśaṃ
Number:	singular
Case:	locative
Gender:	feminine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kārāś	kārāśäntu
voc
acc	kārāś	kārāśäntu
gen	kārāśis
loc	kārāśaṃ
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kārāś “jungle, wilderness” f

  	sg	pl
  nom	kārāś	kārāśäntu
  acc	kārāś	kārāśäntu
  gen	kārāśis
  loc	kārāśaṃ

  • kārāśnu “jungle, wilderness” m

    	sg
    nom	kārāśänw

Occurrences

kārāśaṃ

1	A 70 a3	ñuk cwā särki ymāṃ	kārāśaṃ	ṣtare kaś wālyi •
2	A 98 a1	·rä – ·y·ñc{†ä} ārwar	kārāśaṃ	a2 18σ /// r
3	A 321 a8	a8 /// ñ tāṣ	kārāśaṃ	: kus säm ///
4	YQ I.5 b3	ṣokyo nu cam ypeṣiṃ	kārāśaṃ	ānāntāpā śol śāwāṣt b4

Bibliography

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.