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namo

m

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Where it lives

  • Isa Upanisad 4 · 41.93/10k
  • Svetasvatara Upanisad 3 · 17.46/10k
  • Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 104 · 13.75/10k
  • Chandogya Upanisad 64 · 13.66/10k
  • Aitareya Upanisad 6 · 12.38/10k
  • Prasna Upanisad 8 · 12.25/10k
  • Taittiriya Upanisad 5 · 9.43/10k
  • Katha Upanisad 2 · 9.28/10k
  • Bhagavad Gita 5 · 5.82/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. nämi-

nämi- m. Name eines sagenhaften Königs, eines Verbündeten Indras im Kampf gegen namuci- (RV, Br NomSg °, RV AkkSg °m, InstrSg °ya; AiGr 1 2,407). - Nicht klar. Nach AıGr 1 2,405 primär ein Abstraktum (neben namrd-), vgl saci- : sakra-. nämuci- - NAY' 17 — [Mayrhofer, s.v. nämi-, p. 46]

2. نَم

nam cl. 1. P. namati ( Dhātup. xxiii, 12 ), te (mostly intrans. ; cf. Pāṇ. iii, 1, 89 ; pr. p. Ā. namāna, R. ; pf. P. nānāma or nanāma, RV. &c.; 2. sg. nemitha, or nanantha, Vop. ; Subj. nanamas, RV. ; 3. pl. nemur, Kāv. ; Ā. neme, RV. ; 3. pl. nanāmire, MBh. ; aor. P. anān, Kāṭh. ; anaṃsīt, Daś. ; Ā. anaṃsta Gr. ; 3. pl. anaṃsata, Br. ; Subj. naṃsai, naṃsante, RV. ; fut. naṃsyati, Br. ; namiṣyati, Hariv. ; nantā, Siddh. ; inf. namam, name, RV. ; nantum, namitum, Kāv. ; ind.p. natvā, BhP. ; Kathās. ; natya, Br. ; namya, MBh. ) to bend or bow (either trans. or oftener intr. ), to bow to, subject or submit one's self (with gen. dat. or acc. ), RV. &c. &c.; (with hiruk) to turn away, keep aside, AV. iv, 1, 3 ; to turn towards i.e. to aim at ( gen. ) with ( instr. ), RV. i, 165, 6 ; to yield or give way, keep quiet or be silent, Bālar. vi, 12 ; (in gram. ) to change a dental letter into a cerebral, RPrāt. : Pass. namyate, to be bent or bowed; yield or submit to, TUp. iii, 10, 4 : Caus. namayati, RV. &c. &c. (nāmayati, Up. &c.; nāmyati [!] Mṛcch. i, 30 ; aor. anīnamat, RV. ; Pass. nāmyate, ti, MBh. &c.) to cause to bow or sink, incline, RV. &c. &c.; (with cāpam) to bend a bow, MBh. ; Hariv. &c.; to turn away or ward off, RV. ; to aim at ( gen. ), ix, 97, 15 ; (in gram. ) to change a dental letter into a cerebral, RPrāt. : Desid. ninaṃsati, Gr. : Intens. nannamīti, RV. ; nannamyate, KātyŚr. (3. sg. namnate impf. anamnata, p. namamāna, RV. ) to bow or submit one's self to ( dat. ), RV. ; Br.

3. نَمْ

namo in comp. for mas.

In the wild

6 of 201 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. nam (vol. 1, scan p. 64; entry #1504).

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.