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ambā

ambā́ f. (Ved. voc. ámbe [[VS.]] or amba [[RV.]], in later Sanskṛt amba only, sometimes a mere interjection, [ĀśvŚr.]), a mother, good woman (as a title of respect)

N. of a plant

N. of Durgā (the wife of Śiva)

N. of an Apsaras, [L.]

N. of a daughter of a king of Kāśī, [MBh.]

N. of one of the seven Kṛttikās, [TS.]; [Kāṭh.]; [TBr.]

a term in astrol. (to denote the fourth condition which results from the conjunction of planets?). In the South Indian languages, is corrupted into ammā, and is often affixed to the names of goddesses, and females in general

[Germ. Amme, a nurse; Old Germ. amma, Them. ammôn, ammûn]