ཐམ་པ

Tibetan

Etymology

Resultative form of གཏམ (gtam, “to fill up, to make full”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*tʰam.pa/
Lhasa: /tʰam˥˥.pa˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*tʰam.pa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: tam^f-ba^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰam˥˥.pa˥˥/

Adjective

ཐམ་པ • (tham pa)

full, complete

Related terms

ནོམ་པ (nom pa, “to be satisfied”)

Particle

ཐམ་པ • (tham pa)

particle used with numbers that are even multiples of ten
གཉིས་ཅུ་ཐམ་པ ― gnyis cu tham pa ― twenty

བརྒྱད་ཅུ་ཐམ་པ ― brgyad cu tham pa ― eighty