ນາມ

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Lao

Etymology

From Pali nāma, from Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man). Compare Thai นาม (naam).

Pronunciation

Noun

ນາມ (nām)

  1. (first) name; designation
  2. (grammar) noun

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

ນາມ n

  1. Lao script form of nāma (“name”)
    • 2017 July 19, Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche, Sascha Brawer, “Proposal to Encode Lao Characters for Pali (revised)”, in Unicode Document Register L2017/17106r (PDF), page 21:
      ໂກຘໍ ຊເຫ ວິປ຺ປຊເຫຍ຺ຍ ມານໍ
      ສຎ຺ໂຎຊນໍ ສພ຺ພມຕິກ຺ກເມຍ຺ຍ
      ຕໍ ນາມຣູປສ຺ມິມສຊ຺ຊມານໍ
      ອກິຎຈນໍ* ນານຸປຕນ຺ຕິ ສງ຺ຄາຕິ
      *Taken as typo for ອກິຎ຺ຈນໍ and treated as such below.
      kodhaṃ jahe vippajaheyya mānaṃ saññojanaṃ sabbamatikkameyya taṃ nāmarūpasmimasajjamānaṃ akiñcanaṃ nānupatanti saṅgāti
      If he has given anger up, if he has abandoned conceit, if he has overcome every fetter, attachments do not afflict him who clings to nothing immaterial or material and has nothing.

Declension