တံ

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tàɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: tam • ALA-LC: taṃ • BGN/PCGN: tan • Okell: tañ

Noun

တံ • (tam)

1. rodlike thing; anything rodlike
2. (archaic) accumulation; total
3. elephant with a single short tusk
4. limpidity
5. liquid; water

Derived terms

• ခဲတံ (hkai:tam)
• ငါးမျှားတံ (nga:hmya:tam)
• သွားကြားထိုးတံ (swa:kra:htui:tam)
• လေထိုးတံ (lehtui:tam)

Further reading

• “တံ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• taṃ (Latin script)
• 𑀢𑀁 (Brahmi script)
• तं (Devanagari script)
• তং (Bengali script)
• තං (Sinhalese script)
• ตํ or ตัง (Thai script)
• ᨲᩴ (Tai Tham script)
• ຕໍ or ຕັງ (Lao script)
• តំ (Khmer script)
• 𑄖𑄁 (Chakma script)

Etymology 1

Adverb

တံ

1. Burmese script form of taṃ (“there”)
2. Burmese script form of taṃ (“therefore”)

Adjective

တံ

1. (demonstrative) Burmese script form of taṃ, which is inflection of တ:
   1. masculine/feminine accusative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative singular (ta, “that”)

Pronoun

တံ (m)

1. (demonstrative) Burmese script form of taṃ, which is accusative singular of တ (ta, “him, it”)

Pronoun

တံ (f)

1. (demonstrative) Burmese script form of taṃ, which is feminine accusative singular of တာ (tā, “her, it”)

Pronoun

တံ (n)

1. (demonstrative) Burmese script form of taṃ, which is nominative/accusative singular of တ (ta, “it”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

တံ

1. Burmese script form of taṃ, which is accusative singular of တွံ (tvaṃ, “you”)

S'gaw Karen

Adjective

တံ • (tee)

1. thick
2. dense