གཏམས

Sikkimese

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-(t/d)jam (full, flat, straight).

Verb

གཏམས (gtams)

  1. To fill up.

Etymology 2

Compare Tibetan གཏམ (gtam). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

གཏམས (gtams)

  1. To entrust.

References

  • Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 67

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-(t/d)jam (full, flat, straight). Related to ཐམ་པ (tham pa), ལྟམས (ltams). Compare also Chinese (OC *kljum, “to pour”) and (OC *lɯm, “excessive”).

Pronunciation


Verb

གཏམས • (gtams) (nominal form གཏམས་པ)

  1. (transitive) to fill up, to fill, to make full
Conjugation
Conjugation of གཏམས (gtams)
present གཏམས (gtams)
གཏམ (gtam)
future གཏམས (gtams)
གཏམ (gtam)
past གཏམས (gtams)
imperative གཏམས (gtams)
གཏོམས (gtoms)

Etymology 2

Verb

གཏམས • (gtams) (nominal form གཏམས་པ)

  1. inflection of གཏམ (gtam, to say, tell):
    1. past
    2. imperative

Etymology 3

Verb

གཏམས • (gtams) (nominal form གཏམས་པ)

  1. past of གཏམ (gtam, to entrust)