piṭak

Cite this page as:	"piṭak". 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_piṭak (accessed 12 Jul. 2025).
Meaning:	“basket, box” Carling and Pinault 2023: “collection of canonical texts”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	piṭak
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. piṭaka-
Lexeme variants:	piṭak
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	piṭak	piṭakäntu
voc
acc		piṭakäntu
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• piṭak “collection of canonical texts” “basket, box” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	piṭak	piṭakäntu
  acc		piṭakäntu

Occurrences

piṭak

1	A 32 b4	/// b4 ākluṣ	piṭak	sutä(rṣi) /// b5
2	A 336 b1	/// b1 /// ·sutärṣi	(piṭa)k	t(ā)k kuc ne ṣāmnās
3	A 336 b7	b7 /// (tā)skmāṃ sutärṣi	{ṣ→p}iṭak	kärsnāl sā(sä)ryunt śäktālyiṣy ā
4	A 336 b8	/// (kä)lpāluneyäśśäl tāskmāṃ a(bhi)dharmṣi	piṭak	kärsnāl ॥ /// b9

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.