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Tocharian B
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit उपासक (upāsaka).
Noun
upāsake m
- layperson of a religious order
Derived terms
Further reading
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “upāsake”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 75