nā́man n. (prob. neither fr. √ jñā nor fr. √ mnā [cf. [Uṇ. iv, 150]]; ifc. f. either = m. or °mnī) a characteristic mark or sign, form, nature, kind, manner, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]
name, appellation, [RV.] &c. &c.
personal name (as opp. to gotre, family name; cf. nama-gotra above), [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 23] (often ifc. = named, called, e.g. viṣṇu-śarma-nāmā paṇḍitaḥ, a sage named V°)
merely the name (as opp. to reality; cf. nāma-dhāraka, -mātra, -śeṣa &c.), a noun (as opp. to a verb), [Nir.]; [Prāt.]
substance, essence (in the Mīmāṃsā phil. opp. to guṇa, accidental quality)
a good or great name, renown, fame (only ifc.; cf. sva-, sumántu-)
water, [Naigh. i, 11]
[cf. Zd. nāman; Gk. ὄ-νομα; Lat. nōmen; Goth. namō; Germ. namo &c.; Eng. name.]