གཏམ

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-(t/d)am (“to talk; to speak”). Cognate with Chinese 談 (OC *l'aːm, “to talk”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ktam/
• Lhasa: /tam˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ktam/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: dam^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tam˥˥/

Noun

གཏམ • (gtam)

1. speech, talk, conversation
2. news, information

   གཏམ་བཟང ― gtam bzang ― good news

Derived terms

• དཀྲོག་གཏམ (dkrog gtam)
• སྒྲུང་གཏམ (sgrung gtam)
• གཏམ་གླེང (gtam gleng)
• གཏམ་རྒྱུད (gtam rgyud)
• གཏམ་ངན (gtam ngan)
• གཏམ་འཆལ (gtam 'chal)
• གཏམ་བརྗོད (gtam brjod)
• གཏམ་སྙན (gtam snyan)
• གཏམ་འདོད (gtam 'dod)
• གཏམ་དཔེ (gtam dpe)
• གཏམ་ལན (gtam lan)

 

Verb

གཏམ • (gtam) (nominal form གཏམ་པ)

1. (transitive) to say, to tell

Conjugation

Conjugation of གཏམ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	གཏམ	gtam
Future	གཏམ བཏམ	gtam btam
Past	གཏམས བཏམས	gtams btams
Imperative	གཏམས གཏོམས	gtams gtoms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ktam/
• Lhasa: /tam˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ktam/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: dam^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tam˥˥/

Verb

གཏམ • (gtam) (nominal form གཏམ་པ)

1. (transitive) to entrust to, to give over for the care of

Conjugation

Conjugation of གཏམ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	གཏམ	gtam
Future	གཏམ	gtam
Past	གཏམས	gtams
Imperative	ཏམས གཏམས ཐོམས གཏོམས	tams gtams thoms gtoms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ktam/
• Lhasa: /tam˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ktam/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: dam^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tam˥˥/

Verb

གཏམ • (gtam) (nominal form གཏམ་པ)

1. Alternative form of གཏམས (gtams, “to fill up”)