Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kh(r)V̄m
Meaning: meagre, emaciated
Tibetan: skem (p. bskams, f. bskam, i. skom(s)) to make dry, lean, meagre, skam id.
Burmese: kjum, krum be lean, thin, emaciated; khjumh to pine away.
Kachin: grom2 be poor, lean, šiŋgrom4 to die as cattle from disease, (H) grom id., n-grom knotty, bony, gram be very lean.
Lushai: ṭām famine, hungry, KC *t-krām.
Comments: Dimasa gărām. Sh. 47; Bod. 60.
