mfn. (connected with 7. sa and with 2. samá and samāna; cf. samaha, used as pron.: declined like sarva, e.g. samasmai, [RV. vi, 51, 6]) any, every, [RV.]
[cf. Gk. ἁμός, ἀμός; Goth. suma; Angl.Sax. sum; Eng. some.]
samá mf(A/)n. (prob. originally identical with prec.; cf. samāna) even, smooth, flat, plain, level, parallel (karṇa-s°, ‘on a level with the ear’; bhūmi- or bhūmeḥ samaṃ-√ kṛ, ‘to make level with the earth’), [RV.] &c. &c.
same, equal, similar, like, equivalent, like to or identical or homogeneous with (instr., e.g. mayā sama, ‘like to me’; or gen., rarely abl.), like in or with regard to anything (instr. gen. loc., or -tas, or comp.; samaṃ-√ kṛ, ‘to make equal, balance’), [ib.]
always the same, constant, unchanged, fair, impartial towards (loc. or gen.), [ib.]
even (not ‘odd’), a pair, [VarBṛS.]
having the right measure, regular, normal, right, straight (samaṃ-√ kṛ, ‘to put right or in order’), [AitBr.] &c. &c.
equable, neutral, indifferent, [VarBṛS.]
equally distant from extremes, ordinary, common, middling, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
just, upright, good, straight, honest, [ib.]
easy, convenient, [Pañcat.]
full, complete, whole, entire, [L.]
samá m. peace (perhaps w.r. for śama), [R.]; [Kām.]
the point of intersection of the horizon and the meridian line, [Gol.]
N. of partic. zodiacal signs (esp. Vṛṣa, Karkaṭa, Kanyā, Vṛścika, Makara, and Mīna), [MW.]
a kind of straight line placed over a numerical figure to mark the process of extracting the square root, [ib.]
(in music) a kind of time, [Saṃgīt.]
a grass-conflagration, [L.]
a Jina, [Gal.]
N. of a son of Dharma, [VP.]
of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, [MBh.]
of a king of the Nandi-vegas (v.l. śama), [ib.]
samá (am), n. level ground, a plain (samé bhū́myāḥ, ‘on level ground’), [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.]
equability, equanimity, imperturbability, [MBh.]
likeness, similarity, equality (ena, ‘equally, in the same manner’), [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 18]
right measure or proportion (ena, ‘exactly, precisely’), [ŚBr.]
settlement, compensation, [Mn. viii, 177]
good circumstances, [Mṛcch.]
(in rhet.) a partic. figure, sameness of objects compared to one another, [Pratāp.]; [Kuval.]
(in geom.) a mean proportional segment (described as a fourth proportional to the two perpendiculars and the link or segment, and used for solving problems in a trapezium), [Col.]
= samā f. a year (see pāpa-s°, puṇya-s°, and su-ṣama)
[cf. Gk. ἅμα, ὁμός, ὁμαλός; Lat. similis; Germ. same, -sam; Eng. same.]
sa-ma mfn. (fr. 7. sa + mā) ‘together with Lakṣmi’, happy, prosperous, [Nalod.]