ātmán m. (variously derived fr. an, to breathe; at, to move; vā, to blow; cf. tmán) the breath, [RV.]
the soul, principle of life and sensation, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.
the individual soul, self, abstract individual [e.g. ātmán (Ved. loc.) dhatte, or karoti, ‘he places in himself’, makes his own, [TS. v]; [ŚBr.]; ātmanā akarot, ‘he did it himself’, [Kād.]; ātmanā vi-√ yuj, ‘to lose one's life’, [Mn. vii, 46]; in the sg. is used as reflexive pronoun for all three persons and all three genders, e.g. ātmānaṃ sā hanti, ‘she strikes herself’; putram ātmanaḥ spṛṣṭvā nipetatuḥ, ‘they two having touched their son fell down’, [R. ii, 64, 28]; see also below s.v. ātmanā]
essence, nature, character, peculiarity (often ifc., e.g. karmātman, &c.), [RV. x, 97, 11], &c.
the person or whole body considered as one and opposed to the separate members of the body, [VS.]; [ŚBr.]
the body, [Ragh. i, 14]; [RāmatUp.]
(ifc.) ‘the understanding, intellect, mind’, see naṣṭātman, mandā°
the highest personal principle of life, Brahma (cf. paramātman), [AV. x, 8, 44]; [VS. xxxii, 11]; [ŚBr. xiv], &c.
effort, [L.]
(= dhṛti) firmness, [L.]
the sun, [L.]
fire, [L.]
a son, [L.];
[Old Germ. ātum; Angl.Sax. ædhm; Mod. Germ. Athem, Odem; Gk. ἀϋτμήν, ἀτμός (?).]