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˥˥/

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

Noun

གཏམ • (gtam)

speech, talk, conversation
news, information
གཏམ་བཟང ― gtam bzang ― good news

Derived terms

Terms derived from གཏམ (gtam)

གཏམ་གླེང (gtam gleng)
གཏམ་ངན (gtam ngan)
གཏམ་དཔེ (gtam dpe)
གཏམ་བརྗོད (gtam brjod)

གཏམ་འཆལ (gtam 'chal)
གཏམ་འདོད (gtam 'dod)
གཏམ་རྒྱུད (gtam rgyud)
གཏམ་ལན (gtam lan)

གཏམ་སྙན (gtam snyan)
དཀྲོག་གཏམ (dkrog gtam)
སྒྲུང་གཏམ (sgrung gtam)

Verb

གཏམ • (gtam) (nominal form གཏམ་པ)

(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˥˥/

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

Verb

གཏམ • (gtam) (nominal form གཏམ་པ)

(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˥˥/

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

Verb

གཏམ • (gtam) (nominal form གཏམ་པ)

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

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