śamī शमी śámī f. (cf. śámi) effort, labour, toil, [RV.]; [VS.] (śamī́) the Śamī tree, Prosopis Spicigera or (accord. to others) Mimosa Suma (possessing a very tough hard wood supposed to contain fire, cf. [Mn. viii, 247]; [Ragh. iii, 9]; it was employed to kindle the sacred fire, and a legend relates that Purū-ravas generated primeval fire by the friction of two branches of the Śamī and Aśvattha trees), [AV.] &c. a legume, pod (cf. -jāti) a partic. measure (see catuh-ś°) = valgulī or vāguji, [L.] śamīka शमीक m. N. of various men (esp. of a Muni, son of Sūra and brother of Vasu-deva), [VP.] śamīra शमीर m. = śamira, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 88.] śamīvat शमीवत् śamī—vat mfn. N. of a man (cf. śāmīvata). śamīphalā शमीफला śamī—phalā f. a sensitive plant (prob. = -pattrā), [L.] śamījāta शमीजात śamī—jāta mfn. produced in a Ś° tree (cf. prec.), [Hariv.] śamījāti शमीजाति śamī—jāti f. a kind of legume or pod, [VarBṛS.] śamīkuṇa शमीकुण śamī—kuṇa m. the time when the Sami tree bears fruit, [Pāṇ. v, 2, 24.] śamīlūna शमीलून śamī—lūna mfn. one (whose hair is) cut with (an instrument made of) S° wood, [Kauś.] śamīlatā शमीलता śamī—latā f. a branch of the Ś° tree, [Śak. i, 17.] śamīmaya शमीमय śamī—máya mf(I)n. consisting or made of Ś° wood, [TS.]; [Br.]; [GṛŚrS.] śamītaru शमीतरु śamī—taru n. the Ś° tree, [Śak. i, 17] (v.l. for -latā). śamīdhānya शमीधान्य śamī—dhānya n. Ś° grain (one of the 5 classes of grain; but often = any pulse or grain growing in pods), [ŚBr.]; [Car.] śamīgarbha शमीगर्भ śamī—garbhá m. ‘born in the S°’, the Aśvattha tree or Ficus Religiosa (which strikes root in the fissures of other trees), [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [MBh.] &c. fire (supposed to be contained in the S°), [Hariv.] a Brāhman, [L.] śamīparṇa शमीपर्ण śamī—parṇá n. a leaf of the Ś° tree, [TBr.] śamīvṛkṣa शमीवृक्ष śamī—vṛkṣa m. = -taru, [Pañcat.] śamīdṛṣada शमीदृषद śamī—dṛṣada n. sg. a Ś° tree and a mill-stone, [Laghuk.] śamīpattrī शमीपत्त्री śamī—pattra, n. or śamī—pattrī, f. ‘having Ś° leaves’, a kind of sensitive plant, Mimosa Pudica, [L.] śamīpattra शमीपत्त्र śamī—pattra, n. or śamī—pattrī, f. ‘having Ś° leaves’, a kind of sensitive plant, Mimosa Pudica, [L.] śamīprastha शमीप्रस्थ śamī—prastha n. g. karky-ādi. śamīnivātam शमीनिवातम् śamī—nivātam ind. so as to be protected from the wind by a Ś° tree, [Pāṇ. vi, 2, 8], [Kāś.] śamīpūjāvidhi शमीपूजाविधि śamī—pūjā-vidhi m. N. of wk. śamīmandāramāhātmya शमीमन्दारमाहात्म्य śamī—mandāra-māhātmya n. ‘glorification of the Ś° and Mandāra trees’, N. of ch. of the [GaṇP.]