kṣaṃ

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “moment”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kṣāṃ
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. kṣaṇa-
Lexeme variants:	kṣaṃ; kṣaṇ; kṣaṇa
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-añ

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kṣaṃ	kṣaṇañ
voc
acc	kṣaṃ
gen
loc	kṣaṇaṃ	kṣaṃsaṃ
comit
inst
abl
perl	kṣaṇā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kṣaṃ “moment” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	kṣaṃ	kṣaṇañ
  acc	kṣaṃ
  loc	kṣaṇaṃ	kṣaṃsaṃ
  perl	kṣaṇā

Occurrences

kṣaṃ

1	A 218 b3	pältsäk ; paramāṇū ;	kṣaṃ	yärmaṃ naṣ ; kus
2	A 313 a8	; tsälpāṣitār : ṣom	kṣaṃ	mā nu ; cesmi
3	A 368 a3	3 ॥ cam ṣom	kṣaṃ	lek tärkorä /// a4
4	THT 1909 a2	– /// a2 ///	kṣaṃ	– /// a3 ///
5	THT 2028 b3	– /// b3 ///	kṣaṃ	ñe myi ///

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.