ཐམ་པ

Tibetan

Etymology

Resultative form of གཏམ (gtam, “to fill up, to make full”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*tʰam.pa/
• Lhasa: /tʰam˥˥.pa˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*tʰam.pa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: tam^f-ba^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰam˥˥.pa˥˥/

Adjective

ཐམ་པ • (tham pa)

1. full, complete

Related terms

• ནོམ་པ (nom pa, “to be satisfied”)

Particle

ཐམ་པ • (tham pa)

1. particle used with numbers that are even multiples of ten

   གཉིས་ཅུ་ཐམ་པ ― gnyis cu tham pa ― twenty

   བརྒྱད་ཅུ་ཐམ་པ ― brgyad cu tham pa ― eighty