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nāmāni

n Name, Benennung, Kennzeichen, Wesen, Eigentumlıchkeit (RV +)

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Where it lives

  • Mandukya Upanisad 1 · 5.13/10k
  • Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 7 · 0.93/10k
  • Chandogya Upanisad 1 · 0.21/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. näman-

näman- n Name, Benennung, Kennzeichen, Wesen, Eigentumlıchkeit (RV +); nama namens, mit Namen (RV +), ramatha namentlich (AV). - Mi., nu., dard., ni., pä. namann Name, nama namens, aikun nam, guj. nam Name, usw. ‘Tu 7067 [mit Verweisen], TuAdd 7064£., 7333). - Iir., aav. jav. raman- n. Name, jav. ngma namens, mit Namen, ap. näma, numna namens, mit Namen {s. die Lit. in ApH 134; Schm, tompLI 74 Anm. 43, 81), khot. … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. näman-, p. 65]

2. nāman

nāman n. ( prob. neither fr. √ jñā nor fr. √ mnā [ cf. Uṇ. iv, 150 ]; ifc. f. either = m. or mnī) a characteristic mark or sign, form, nature, kind, manner, RV. ; VS. ; AV.

3. nāman

personal name (as opp. to gotre, family n˚ ; cf. namagotra above), Kāś. on Pāṇ. viii, 2, 23 (often ifc. = named, called, e.g. viṣṇuśarmanāmāpaṇḍitaḥ, a sage named V˚ )

4. nāman

merely the n˚ (as opp. to reality; cf. nāmadhāraka, mātra, śeṣa &c.), a noun (as opp. to a verb), Nir. ; Prāt.

In the wild

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. naman (vol. 2, scan p. 66; entry #931).

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.