torma

Borrowed from Tibetan གཏོར་མ (gtor ma).

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

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.

• morat, amort, Mator, Toram, Morta

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

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

torma (plural tormák)

1. horseradish (Armoracia rusticana)

• vízitorma

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

From Latin turma. Compare Portuguese turma, Romanian turmă.

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

torma f (plural torme)

1. crowd, throng

• morta, tarmo, tarmò, tramo, tramò

Borrowed from German Thurm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔr.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɔrma
• Syllabification: tor‧ma

torma f

1. tower

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɔrma]

torma

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

• dorma

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

Maybe torı +‎ Mandarin 馬 / 马 (mǎ, “horse”).

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

torma

1. chestnut (of a horse)

   torma turı

   chestnut-colored foal

torma

1. chestnut-colored horse

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

Derived from Amdo Tibetan [Term?] Related to Tibetan གཏོར་མ (gtor ma).

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

torma

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

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