thara

Kikuyu

Alternative forms

  • thaara

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ðàːɾǎ/
The first a is pronounced long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

thara class 9/10 (plural thara)

  1. Napier grass, elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum)[3]

Hypernyms

References

  1. ^ “thara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 495. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
  3. ^ Kitalyi, Aichi and David M. Miano and Sandra Mwebaze and Charles Wambugu (2005). More forage, more milk: Forage production for small-scale zero grazing systems, p. 114. RELMA Technical Handbook No. 33. Nairobi: Regional Land Management Unit (RELMA in ICRAF) / World Agroforestry Centre. →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). "Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach", p. 32.

Old High German

Alternative forms

Adverb

thara

  1. thither (to that place)

References

  • Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts
  • 𑀣𑀭 (Brahmi script)
  • थर (Devanagari script)
  • থর (Bengali script)
  • ථර (Sinhalese script)
  • ထရ (Burmese script)
  • ถร or ถะระ (Thai script)
  • ᨳᩁ (Tai Tham script)
  • ຖຣ or ຖະຣະ (Lao script)
  • ថរ (Khmer script)
  • 𑄗𑄢 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Extracted from reflexes of formations from Sanskrit स्‌तॄ (s‌tṝ), such as tharaṇa and pattharati.

Noun

thara ?

  1. Name of the Pali root thar
    • [c. 500 AD, Dhatumañjusa; republished in Dines Andersen & Helmer Smith, The Pāli Dhātupāṭha and the Dhātumañjūsā, Copenhagen: Andr. Fred. Host & son, 1921, page 36:
      62. Tara taraṇasmiṃ thara santharaṇe
      bhara bharaṇasmiṃ phara sampharaṇe
      sara gati-cintā-hiṃsā-sadde
      phura calanādo hara haraṇamhi
      62. Tar for crossing, thar for spreading, / bhar for supporting, phar for pervasion, / sar for motion, thought, crushing and noise, / phur for shaking, har for taking.]


Tangkhul Naga

Numeral

thara

  1. ten

Woiwurrung

Noun

thara

  1. small hawk[1]
  2. a totem of bunjil[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://howittandfison.org/document/hw0391/3
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