As a Hindi name
तोमर · noun · masculine
भाले की तरह एक प्रकार का अस्त्र जिसका व्यवहार प्राचीन काल में होता था । इसमें लकड़ी के डंडे में आगे की ओर लोहे का बड़ा फल लगा रहता था । शर्पला । शापल · बारह मात्राओं का एक छंद जिसके अंत में एक गुरु और एक लघु होता है । जैसे, तब चले बान कराल । फुंकरत जनु बहु ब्याल । कोप्यो समर श्रीराम । चले विशिख निसित निकाम ।—तूलसी (शब्द॰) · एक देश का नाम जिसका उल्लेख कई पुराणों में है — Śabdasāgara
तोमर · tomar · s.m.
An iron club or crow; a lance; a javelin; name of a class of Rājpūts ( = tuwar, taṅwar) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 344
तोमर · masculine
the Tomara dynasty (dynasty which ruled Delhi and Haryana in the 9th to 12th centuries)
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a lance, javelin, &c.
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
tomara m. n. (g. ardharcādi) a lance, javelin, MBh. &c.
tomara m. pl. N. of a people, vi, 377
tomara m. sg. N. of the ancestor of a commentator on Devīm.
tomara n. a metre of 4 × 9 syllables.
tomara mfn. (-raḥ-rā-raṃ) 1 An iron club or crow. 2 A lance. E. tu Sautra root, to hurt, affix vic, tu that which injures, mṛ to die, affix ac, and the vowel of tu changed.
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