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camūm

Stein- bzw. Ziegelsarg

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Where it lives

  • Bhagavad Gita 1 · 1.16/10k
  • Chandogya Upanisad 5 · 1.07/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. camü-

camü- f. Schüssel; Holzgefäß, in welches der Soma abfließt (RV [zur Flexion s. AiGr II 188]; Br ‘Stein- bzw. Ziegelsarg': Old, ZDMG 62 [1908] 459ff. = KS 268ff., GeRV 111 7ff. MK 1255Ff. [mit Lit.]). - Wohl verwandt mit camasa-,; letztlich zu CAM? Leum 97, AiGr II 2,496,497, Eich, MSS 31 (1972) 89 Anm. 26 (vgl. Puhvel II 420). - Wertlos H. Petersson, Glo 8 (1917) 76; s. auch KEWA 1375. camris- - CAY' 531 camris-, … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. camü-, p. 585]

2. camū

camū f. ( Ved. loc. mū, RV. six times; once mvi, x, 91, 15 ; nom. du. mvā, iii, 55, 20; gen. loc. mvos; nom. pl. mvas, viii, 2, 8; loc. pl. mūṣu) a vessel or part (two or more in number) of the reservoir into which the Soma is poured, RV.

3. camū

mvau, f. du. ‘the two great receptacles of all living beings’, heaven and earth, Naigh. iii, 30 ( cf. RV. iii, 55, 20 )

4. camū

an army or division of an army (129 elephants, as many cars, 2187 horse, and 3645 foot, MBh. i, 292 ), MBh. ; R. ; Megh. ; BhP.

5. cāmya

cāmya n. (√ cam; cf. Pāṇ. iii, 1, 126 ) food, W.

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Where it came from

  • Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. camü (vol. 1, scan p. 585; entry #6046).

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.