kham

See also: Kham, khăm, and khảm

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 𑀔𑀫𑁆 (Brahmi script)
  • खम् (Devanagari script)
  • খম্ (Bengali script)
  • ඛම් (Sinhalese script)
  • ခမ် or ၶမ် (Burmese script)
  • ขมฺ or ขัม (Thai script)
  • ᨡᨾ᩺ (Tai Tham script)
  • ຂມ຺ or ຂັມ (Lao script)
  • ខម៑ (Khmer script)
  • 𑄈𑄟𑄴 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit क्षम् (kṣam).

Root

kham

  1. to find bearable

Derived terms

Phalura

Etymology

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kham/

Adverb

kham (Perso-Arabic spelling کھم)

  1. Co-lexicalized intensifier

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

Romani

Etymology

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”).

Noun

kham m (nominative plural khama)

  1. sun[2][3][4]

Descendants
  • Caló: cam

References
  1. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gharmá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 240
  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. Yaron Matras (2002) Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 27, 34, 39, 40
  4. 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

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 堪.

Pronunciation

Verb

kham

  1. to endure

Derived terms
  • kham khổ (“miserable”)
  • kham nhẫn (“enduring”)
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