kinnares

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: Kiṃnara, a mythical being
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kinnare
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. Skt. kiṃnara-, Pāli kinnara-
Lexeme variants:	kinnares
Number:	plural
Case:	accusative
Gender:	masculine
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-eñ

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kinnare	kinnareñ
voc
acc		kinnares
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl		kinnaresäṣ
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kinnare Kiṃnara, a mythical being m

  	sg	pl
  nom	kinnare	kinnareñ
  acc		kinnares
  abl		kinnaresäṣ

  • kinnarñā “female Kiṃnara” f

    	sg
    acc	kinnarñāṃ

Occurrences

kinnares

1	A 214 b5	ñäktas asurās nāgās yakṣāśśi	kinna(res)	(gandhārveśśi) (yoṣ) (ymāṃ) (wsālwäṣ)
2	A 318 and 319 b3	ṣuläṣ (himava)nt ṣul (kuya)lte	kinnares	vidyādha(res) /// b4
3	A 326 a5	kupāräṃ wräṣ kärkñam prākär	kinn(ares)	/// a6 /// jimutaketu
4	YQ II.1 b8	(ñäktas) (asurās) (nāgās) (yakṣāśśi)	(kin)n(a)res	gandhārveśśi yoṣ ymāṃ wsālwäṣ

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.