kalp

Cite this page as:	"kalp". 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_kalp (accessed 11 Feb. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “kalpa, world age”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kālp
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. kalpa-
Lexeme variants:	kalp
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	kalp	kalpañ, kalps
voc
acc	kalp	kalpas, kalps
gen	kalpis	kalpaśśi
loc	kalpaṃ	kalpsaṃ
comit
inst		kalpasyo
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kalp “kalpa, world age” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	kalp	kalpañ, kalps
  acc	kalp	kalpas, kalps
  gen	kalpis	kalpaśśi
  loc	kalpaṃ	kalpsaṃ
  inst		kalpasyo

  • kalpaṣi “kalpa, world age”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.f
    nom	kalpaṣi	kalpaṣi
    acc			kalpaṣinās

  • kalpṣi “kalpa, world age”

    	sg.m
    acc	kalpṣinäṃ

Occurrences

kalp

1	A 330 b2	yw· /// b2 ///	kalp	ñomumiṃ pärkri pra –
2	A 388 b1	indri(ñ) /// b1 ///	(ka)lp{†ä}	nāṃtsu säm ak mā

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.