As a deity name
Name 702 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 925 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 531 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 907 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
मास · noun · masculine
चंद्रमा · महीना । मास — Śabdasāgara
मास · noun · masculine
काल के एक विभाग का नाम जो वर्ष के बारहवें भाग के बराबर होता है । महीना · चंद्रमा (को॰) · एक संख्या । १२ की संख्या — Śabdasāgara
मास · mās · s.m.
Flesh, meat — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 981
मास · māsa · s.m.
The moon (cf. Pers. māh) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 981
मास · masculine
a month; moon
Cited formation "मास" is म + -आस: म means "the twenty-fifth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -आस forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi मास॑ — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s Proto-Indo-Iranian *mā́Has Sanskrit मास् (mā́s) Sanskrit मास॑ (mā́sa) Prakrit 𑀫𑀸𑀲 (māsa) ▲ Sanskrit मास॑ (mā́sa)lbor. Hindi मास Inherited from Prakrit 𑀫𑀸𑀲 (māsa), and in formal senses a learned borrowing from…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a month or the 12th part of the Hindū year (there are 4 kinds of months, viz. the solar, saura; the natural, sāvana; the stellar, nākṣatra, and the lunar, cāndra; the latter, which…
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M3 · meaning shifts "māsa" is derived from "mās" with the aṇ/añ suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
1. mās n. = māṃs, flesh, meat, RV.
2. mās m. (√ 3. mā; pl. instr. mādbhis, RV.; loc. māssu, PañcavBr., māsu, TS.) the moon, RV. (cf. candra- and sūrya-mās)
māsa m. (or n., Siddh.) the moon (see pūrṇa-m˚)
a month or the 12th part of the Hindū year (there are 4 kinds of months, viz. the solar, saura; the natural, sāvana; the stellar, nākṣatra, and the lunar, cāndra; the latter, which is the most usual and consists of 30 Tithis, being itself of two kinds as reckoned from the new or full moon, cf. IW. 179; for the names of the months see ib. 173 n. 3), RV. &c. &c. (māsam, for a month; māsam ekam, for one month; māsena, in the course of a month; māse, in a m˚ = after the lapse of a m˚)
Dictionary citations
māsa m. (or n., Siddh.) the moon (see pūrṇa-m˚)
a month or the 12th part of the Hindū year (there are 4 kinds of months, viz. the solar, saura; the natural, sāvana; the stellar, nākṣatra, and the lunar, cāndra; the latter, which is the most usual and consists of 30 Tithis, being itself of two kinds as reckoned from the new or full moon, cf. IW. 179; for the names of the months see ib. 173 n. 3), RV. &c. &c. (māsam, for a month; māsam ekam, for one month; māsena, in the course of a month; māse, in a m˚ = after the lapse of a m˚)
a symbolical N. for the number ‘twelve’, Sūryas.
māsa m. (-saḥ) 1 A month, the twelfth part of the Hindu year; it is usually a lunar one, consisting of thirty Tithis, but it may be a Saura or solar month, being equal to the sun's passage through a sign of the zodiac; there is also a Sāvana month, consisting of thirty risings and settings of the sun; a Nākṣatra month, or month regulated by the lunar asterisms, and a fifth description of month called Vārhaspatya, depending on the motions of the planet JUPITER; the lunar month also, being of two kinds, as reckoned from the new or from the full moon, completes six different modes of monthly computation. 2 A jeweller's weight: see māṣa. E. mās the moon, aff. aṇ or masa to measure, (the year by it,) aff. ghañ.
1. mās n. = māṃs, flesh, meat, RV.
2. mās m. (√ 3. mā; pl. instr. mādbhis, RV.; loc. māssu, PañcavBr., māsu, TS.) the moon, RV. (cf. candra- and sūrya-mās)
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