English
torma
Torma comes from Tibetan གཏོར་མ.
- Tibetanmodernགཏོར་མ
- Englishearliest quotation 2009torma
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Tibetanmodernགཏོར་མ
- Englishearliest quotation 2009torma
Earliest quotation: 2009, Edward Wong, With Explosions of Color, Tibetan Art Flourishes: “They make and assemble tormas, which are offering cakes.”.
Every English word from Tibetan གཏོར་མ
Today it means
noun A figure, made mostly of flour and butter, used in tantric rituals or as an offering in Tibetan Buddhism.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Tibetan གཏོར་མ / torma