As a deity name
Name 760 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 148 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 907 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 217 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
समुद्र · noun · masculine
वह जलराशि जो पृथ्वी को चारों ओर से घेरे हुए है और जो इस पृथ्वीतल के प्रायः तीन चतुर्थांश में व्याप्त है । सागर । अंबुधि · किसी विषय या गुण आदि का बहुत बड़ा आगार · बहुत बड़ी संख्या का वाचक शब्द (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
समुद्र · sam-udra · s.m.
Sea, ocean — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 675
समुद्र · sa-mudra · adj.
Having a stamp or seal, stamped, sealed — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 675
समुद्र · masculine
sea (body of water)
Cited formation "समुद्र" is स- + मुद्र: मुद्र means "आनंददायक । प्रसन्न करनेवाला", and the prefix स- forms with, together with, same. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(23) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi समुद्र — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit समुद्र (samudra). Doublet of समंदर (samandar).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
sam-udra m. (n. only, RV. vi, 72, 3; ifc. f(ā). cf. udra, an-udra; for sa-mudra See p. 1168, col. 2) ‘gathering together of waters’, the sea, ocean (in Veda also ‘the aerial waters’, ‘atmospheric ocean or sky’ [cf. Naigh. i, 3]; in VP. ii, 4, seven circular concentric [elsewhere 3 or 4] oceans are named, viz. lavaṇa, ‘salt-water’; ikṣu, ‘syrup’; surā, ‘wine’; ghṛta, ‘clarified butter’; dadhi, ‘curds’; dugdha, ‘milk’; jala, ‘fresh water’; in later language the Ocean is often personified as king of the rivers), RV. &c. &c.
N. of the number, four (four principal oceans being reckoned by some, one for every quarter of the sky), Gaṇit.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
(for sam-udra See p. 1166, col. 3) having a stamp or seal, stamped, sealed, marked
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "samudra" is the vocative of "samudrā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
sam-udra m. (n. only, RV. vi, 72, 3; ifc. f(ā). cf. udra, an-udra; for sa-mudra See p. 1168, col. 2) ‘gathering together of waters’, the sea, ocean (in Veda also ‘the aerial waters’, ‘atmospheric ocean or sky’ [cf. Naigh. i, 3]; in VP. ii, 4, seven circular concentric [elsewhere 3 or 4] oceans are named, viz. lavaṇa, ‘salt-water’; ikṣu, ‘syrup’; surā, ‘wine’; ghṛta, ‘clarified butter’; dadhi, ‘curds’; dugdha, ‘milk’; jala, ‘fresh water’; in later language the Ocean is often personified as king of the rivers), RV. &c. &c.
N. of the number, four (four principal oceans being reckoned by some, one for every quarter of the sky), Gaṇit.
a large Soma vessel, RV. vi, 69, 6; ix, 29, 3 &c.
N. of an immensely high number (1 with 14 cyphers), TS.; ŚāṅkhŚr.; MBh.
a partic. configuration of the stars and planets (when the 7 pl˚ are situated in the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th houses), VarBṛS.
sam-udrā (ā), f. N. of two plants (= śaṭī and śamī), L.
Alternative readings
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