As a deity name
Name 496 of the Krishna Sahasranāma — Mahabharata / Padma Purana, as taught by Sages and Devotees
Name 442 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
क्षम · adj
शक्त । योहग्य । समर्थ । उपयुक्त — Śabdasāgara
क्षम · noun · masculine
शक्ति । बल · योग्यता । उपयुक्तता · युद्ध (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
क्षम · kshama · adj.
Patient, enduring, suffering, submissive; endurable, tolerable; competent, capable, able, fit for; useful, suitable — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 837
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
adequate, competent, able, fit for (loc. or inf. or in comp., e.g., ‘we are able to quit’, ), &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (7)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kṣama" is the vocative of "kṣamā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
kṣama mf(ā)n. (g. pacādi) patient (said of the earth, perhaps with reference to 2. kṣam), AV. xii, 1, 29
ifc. (Pāṇ. iii, 2, 1, Vārtt. 8) enduring, suffering, bearing, submissive, resisting, MBh.; Śak.; Kum. v, 40
adequate, competent, able, fit for (loc. or inf. or in comp., e.g. vayaṃ tyaktuṃ kṣamāḥ, ‘we are able to quit’, Śāntiś.), Nal.; R.; Ragh. &c.
favourable to (gen.), R. ii, 35, 31
bearable, tolerable, Śak.; Pañcat. (= Subh.)
kṣamā (ā), f. patience, forbearance, indulgence (one of the sāmānya-dharmās i.e. an obligation to all castes, Viṣṇ.), Mn.; MBh. &c.
kṣamāṃ √ kṛ, to be indulgent to, have patience or bear with (prati, MBh. iii, 1027; or gen., Śāntiś.)
Alternative readings
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