different between torma vs tirma

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ?????? (gtor ma).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??m?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??m?/

Noun

torma (plural tormas)

1. A figure, made mostly of flour and butter, used in tantric rituals or as an offering in Tibetan Buddhism.

Anagrams

• Morta, Toram, amort, morat

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *turma (“radish”), from an Iranian language. Compare Turkish turp (“radish”), Persian ???? (torob, “radish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?torm?]
• Hyphenation: tor?ma
• Rhymes: -m?

Noun

torma (plural tormák)

1. horseradish (Armoracia rusticana)

Declension

Derived terms

• vízitorma

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin turma. Compare Portuguese turma, Romanian turm?.

Noun

torma f (plural torme)

1. crowd, throng

Anagrams

• morta, tarmo, tarmò, tramo, tramò

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?rma]

Noun

torma

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

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tirma (plural tirmas)

1. (Scotland, dialect, Hebrides) A bird, the oystercatcher.

Anagrams

• Mitra, amrit, matri-, mitra, timar

Maltese

Etymology

Compare to Moroccan Arabic ????? (tarma). The term possibly traces back to an old dialect word "?ulma", meaning breach, hole, gap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?r.ma/

Noun

tirma f

1. (anatomy) anus, rectum
2. (anatomy, vulgar) backside, ass, arse, buttocks
3. (vulgar) asshole

Related terms

• sorm
• toqba tas-sorm
• rektum

References