mfn. (prob. fr. sam + áp and formed analogously to pratīpa, dvīpa, anūpa; accord. to some fr. sam + √ āp and =, ‘easy to attain’) near (in place or time), contiguous, proximate, adjacent, close by, at hand, approaching, imminent, [Kāv.]; [VarBṛS.] &c.
n. nearness, proximity, vicinity, presence, imminence (with gen. or ifc., am, ‘to, towards’; āt, ‘from’; e, ‘in the vicinity, near, close at hand, beside, in the presence of, at the time of, before, at, towards’; cf. saṃdhivelā-s°), [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.