As a deity name
Name 109 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
सम · adj
समान । तुल्य । बराबर · सब । कुल । समस्त । पूरा । तमाम · जिसका तल ऊबड़ खाबड़ न हो । चौरस — Śabdasāgara
सम · noun · masculine
वह राशि जो सम संख्या पर पड़े । दूसरी, चौथी, छठी आदि राशियाँ । वृष, कर्कट, कन्या, वृश्चिक, मकर और मीन ये छह् राशियाँ · गणित में वह सीधी रेखा जो उस अंक के ऊपर दी जाती है जिसका वर्गमूल निकालना होता है · संगीत में वह स्थान जहाँ गाने बजानेवालों का सिर या हाथ आपसे आप हिल जाता है — Śabdasāgara
सम · sama · adj.
Even, level, flat, plain, smooth; same, equal, like, similar; all, whole, entire, full, complete — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 671
सम · sam · s.m.
= شم śam, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 671
सम
same; even, equal; homogeneous; even (divisible by two)
Cited formation "सम" is स- + म: म means "the twenty-fifth consonant in Hindi", and the prefix स- forms with, together with, same. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(23) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit सम — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit सम (sama), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *samHás, from Proto-Indo-European *somHós (“same”). Doublet of हम (ham) (which is borrowed from Persian هم (ham)). Cognate of English same.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. sama mfn. (connected with 7. sa and with 2. sama and samāna; cf. samaha, used as pron.: declined like sarva, e.g. samasmai, RV. vi, 51, 6) any, every, RV.
sama [cf. Gk. ἁμός, ἀμός; Goth. suma; Angl.Sax. sum; Eng. some.]
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
any, every
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M1 · same meaning "sama" is the vocative of "samā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
1. sama mfn. (connected with 7. sa and with 2. sama and samāna; cf. samaha, used as pron.: declined like sarva, e.g. samasmai, RV. vi, 51, 6) any, every, RV.
sama [cf. Gk. ἁμός, ἀμός; Goth. suma; Angl.Sax. sum; Eng. some.]
2. sama mf(ā)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.
samā , (ā), f. a year, see samā p. 1153
samā f. (of 2. sama above) a year, RV. &c. &c. (also sama n. in pāpa-sama, puṇya-s˚, su-ṣama)
Alternative readings
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