torma

See also: Torma, Törmä, and törmä

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan གཏོར་མ (gtor ma).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɹmə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːmə/

Noun

torma (plural tormas)

1. A figure, made mostly of flour and butter, used in tantric rituals or as an offering in Tibetan Buddhism.
   • 2009 March 30, Edward Wong, “With Explosions of Color, Tibetan Art Flourishes”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     They make and assemble tormas, which are offering cakes.

Anagrams

• Morta, Toram, amort, morat

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *turma (“radish”). Compare Turkish turp (“radish”), Persian ترب (torob, “radish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtormɒ]
• Hyphenation: tor‧ma
• Rhymes: -mɒ

Noun

torma (plural tormák)

1. horseradish (Armoracia rusticana)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	torma	tormák
accusative	tormát	tormákat
dative	tormának	tormáknak
instrumental	tormával	tormákkal
causal-final	tormáért	tormákért
translative	tormává	tormákká
terminative	tormáig	tormákig
essive-formal	tormaként	tormákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tormában	tormákban
superessive	tormán	tormákon
adessive	tormánál	tormáknál
illative	tormába	tormákba
sublative	tormára	tormákra
allative	tormához	tormákhoz
elative	tormából	tormákból
delative	tormáról	tormákról
ablative	tormától	tormáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	tormáé	tormáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tormáéi	tormákéi

Possessive forms of torma
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tormám	tormáim
2nd person sing.	tormád	tormáid
3rd person sing.	tormája	tormái
1st person plural	tormánk	tormáink
2nd person plural	tormátok	tormáitok
3rd person plural	tormájuk	tormáik

Derived terms

• vízitorma

Further reading

• torma in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin turma. Compare Portuguese turma, Romanian turmă.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.ma/
• Rhymes: -orma
• Hyphenation: tór‧ma

Noun

torma f (plural torme)

1. crowd, throng

Anagrams

• morta, tarmo, tarmò, tramo, tramò

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Thurm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔrma/
• Syllabification: tor‧ma

Noun

torma f

1. tower

Further reading

• Stefan Ramułt (1893) “torma”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego‎^[2] (in Kashubian), page 214
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “wieża”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[3]
• “torma”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɔrma]

Noun

torma

1. genitive singular of torm
2. nominative dual of torm
3. accusative dual of torm

Salar

Alternative forms

• dorma

Etymology 1

Related to Salar torı. From Proto-Turkic *tōr-.

Maybe Salar torı + 马 (mǎ, “horse”).

Pronunciation

• (Qingshui, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): [tormɑ]

Adjective

torma

1. chesnut (of a horse)

   torma turı

   chesnut-colored foal

Noun

torma

1. chesnut-colored horse

References

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “torma”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 514

Etymology 2

Derived from Amdo Tibetan [Term?] Related to Tibetan [script needed] (gtorma).

Pronunciation

• (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): [tormɑ]

Noun

torma

1. figurines of people and animals made of clay or spell dough

References

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “torma”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 514