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sama

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.]