kesāri

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “hair, filament”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. kesara-
Lexeme variants:	kesāri
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kesār	kesāri, kesārs
voc
acc	kesār	kesārs
gen
loc	kesāraṃ	kesārsaṃ
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kesār “hair, filament” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	kesār	kesāri, kesārs
  acc	kesār	kesārs
  loc	kesāraṃ	kesārsaṃ

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.