དོམ

Dzongkha

Noun

དོམ (dom)

1. bear

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-wam (“bear”).

Noun

དོམ (thom)

1. bear

Tibetan

Ursus thibetanus

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-wam (“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/

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• 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)

1. bear; in particular, the Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus)
2. (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.