སམ་ཊ

Tibetan

Alternative forms

• སམ་ཏ (sam ta)

Etymology

Possibly from Sanskrit संपुट (saṃpuṭa). Compare Khmer សំបុត្រ (sɑmbot, “mail, ticket”). Alternative etymology sees this as a variant of བརྩམ་གྲྭ (brtsam grwa).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*sam/
• Lhasa: /sam˥˥.taˑ/

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• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: sam^f-da
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /sam˥˥.taˑ/

Noun

སམ་ཊ • (sam ṭa)

1. wooden tablet used as a writing desk, especially in school

References

• “སམ་ཊ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.