དོམ

Dzongkha

Noun

དོམ (dom)

bear

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tV-wəm (“bear”).

Noun

དོམ (thom)

bear

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *(d)wam, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tV-wəm (“bear”), with preemption of the root initial by the prefix.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*dom/
Lhasa: /tʰom˩˨/
Batang: /tɑ̃˩˧/
Dêgê: /toŋ˩˧/
Zêkog: /tom/
Bla-Brang: /tom/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*dom/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: tom^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰom˩˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /tɑ̃˩˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /toŋ˩˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /tom/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /tom/

Noun

དོམ • (dom)

bear; in particular, the Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus)
(archaic) debt

Derived terms

དོམ་མཁྲིས (dom mkhris, “bear's bile (as medicine)”)
དོམ་གདོང་ཅན (dom gdong can, “ṛ́kṣavaktra (ऋक्षवक्त्र (ṛkṣavaktra, “bear-face”)), bear-headed dakini”)
དོམ་པགས (dom pags, “bear skin”)
དོམ་ནག (dom nag, “black bear”)
དོམ་ཁྲ (dom khra, “giant panda, panda”)

See also

དྲེད་མོ (dred mo, “red or snow bear”)

References

“དོམ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.