gharmá m. (√ 2. ghṛ) heat, warmth (of the sun or of fire), sunshine, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.
the hot season, [R. i, 63, 24]; [Ragh. xvi, 43]; [VarBṛS.]
internal heat, [R. ii, 75, 45] (v.l.)
perspiration, [L.]
day (opposed to night), [Jyot. (YV) 9]
a cauldron, boiler, esp. the vessel in which the milk-offering to the Aśvins is boiled, [RV.]; [AV. vii]; [VS. viii, 61]; [AitBr. i]; [ŚBr. xiv]; [Lāṭy.]
a cavity in the earth shaped like a cauldron (from which Atri was rescued by the Aśvins; ‘heat’, [Gmn.]), [RV.]
hot milk or any other hot beverage offered as an oblation (esp. to the Aśvins), [RV.]; [AV. iv, 1, 2]; [VS. xxxviii]; [ŚBr. iv], [xiv]; [KātyŚr.]; [ĀśvŚr.]
N. of Tāpasa (author of [RV. x, 114])
of Saurya (author of [181, 3])
of a son of Anu (father of Ghṛta), [Hariv. 1840] (v.l.)
[cf. θερμός, θέρμη; Lat. formus; Zd. garĕma; Goth. varmya; Germ. warm.]