kham

See also: Kham, khăm, and khảm

Pali

Alternative scripts

kham

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kham (Perso-Arabic spelling کھم)

Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[2], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀖𑀫𑁆𑀫 (ghamma),^[1]^[2] from Sanskrit घर्म (gharmá, “hot weather, sunshine”).^[1]^[2]^[3] Cognate with Nepali घाम (ghām, “sun, sunlight”), Gujarati ઘામ (ghām, “heat, perspiration”).

kham m (nominative plural khama)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gharmá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 240
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kham”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 155a
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Yaron Matras (2002) Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 27, 34, 39, 40
^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o kham, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 211b

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