དོམ

Dzongkha

Noun

དོམ (dom)

bear

Kurtöp

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan དོམ (dom).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [d̪òm]

Noun

དོམ (dom)

synonym of ཝམ (wam)

References

Kuenga Lhendup (2025), A Phonetic and Phonological reconstruction of Proto-Kurtöp‎^[1], University of Syndey (PhD thesis), page 131

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”)

Descendants

→ Kurtöp: དོམ (dom)

See also

དྲེད་མོ (dred mo, “red or snow bear”)

References

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