As a deity name
Name 821 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 581 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
शम · noun · masculine
शांति · मोक्ष · कर । हस्त । हाथ — Śabdasāgara
शम · śama · s.m.
Quiet, tranquillity, rest, calm, peace; quietism, quiet of mind; restraint of the organs of sense; indifference to objects of sense — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 733
शम · masculine
tranquillity, peacefulness, calmness, rest; lack or abstinence from passion; total asceticism
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi शम — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Classical Sanskrit शम (śama).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
śama m. tranquillity, calmness, rest, equanimity, quietude or quietism, absence of passion, abstraction from external objects through intense meditation (śamaṃ √ kṛ, ‘to calm one's self’, ‘be tranquil’), Mn.; MBh. &c.
peace, peace with (sārdham), MBh.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
tranquillity, calmness, rest, equanimity, quietude or quietism, absence of passion, abstraction from external objects through intense meditation (, ‘to calm one's self’, ‘be tranqu…
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M1 · same meaning "śama" is the vocative of "śamā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
śama m. tranquillity, calmness, rest, equanimity, quietude or quietism, absence of passion, abstraction from external objects through intense meditation (śamaṃ √ kṛ, ‘to calm one's self’, ‘be tranquil’), Mn.; MBh. &c.
peace, peace with (sārdham), MBh.
Quietism or Tranquillity (personified as a son of Dharma and husband of Prāpti), MBh.
tranquillization, pacification, allayment, alleviation, cessation, extinction, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
absence of sexual passion or excitement, impotence, TāṇḍBr.
śamā f. N. of a divine female, PārGṛ.
Alternative readings
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