སྒམ

See also: སྒོམ

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zɡam/
• Lhasa: /kam˩˨/
• Batang: /gɑ̃˥˥/
• Dêgê: /gɑŋ˩˧/
• Zêkog: /rgam/
• Bla-Brang: /hgam/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zɡam/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: gam^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kam˩˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /gɑ̃˥˥/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /gɑŋ˩˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rgam/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hgam/

Noun

སྒམ • (sgam)

1. box, chest, trunk, suitcase
2. testes

Derived terms

• ཁྱགས་བཟོའི་གློག་སྒམ (khyags bzo'i glog sgam, “freezer”)
• འཁྱགས་སྒམ ('khyags sgam, “refrigerator”)
• འོས་སྒམ ('os sgam, “ballot box”)
• ཤོག་སྒམ (shog sgam, “carton”)
• སྒམ་སྒྲོམ (sgam sgrom, “bin”)
• རོ་སྒམ (ro sgam, “coffin”)