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sukrānāsac

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Meaning:	A bird species associated with carrion, vulture
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	skren
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. śukrāṅga- (?)
Lexeme variants:	sukrānāsac
Number:	plural
Case:	allative
Gender:	feminine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	sukrāṃ	sukrānāñ
voc
acc		sukrānās
gen	sukrāne	sukrānāśśi
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all		sukrānāsac
caus

Lexeme family

• sukrāṃ f

  	sg	pl
  nom	sukrāṃ	sukrānāñ
  acc		sukrānās
  gen	sukrāne	sukrānāśśi
  all		sukrānāsac

Commentary

Translation by carlingandpinault2023: crow

;

For the meaning and etymology, see Malzahn 2014b: 92-93; the meaning is supported by cemetery scenes from Qizil paintings (see Howard and Vignato 2014: 109 on Qizil Caves 116 and 220 depicting jackals and vultures eating corpses).

Occurrences

sukrānāsac

1

A 154 a5

wālätkāñ kaṣtyo miṣānt tosäm

sukrānāsac

weñā(r) /// a6///

Bibliography

Howard and Vignato 2014

Howard, Angela F., and Giuseppe Vignato. 2014. Archaeological and visual sources of meditation in the ancient monasteries of Kuča. Leiden: Brill.

Malzahn 2014b

Malzahn, Melanie. 2014b. “Tocharian A śorki ‘fear’ and two other TA scary words.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 15: 87–94.