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om

om ind. (√ av, Uṇ. i, 141 ; originally oṃ = āṃ, which may be derived from ā, BRD. ), a word of solemn affirmation and respectful assent, sometimes translated by ‘yes, verily, so be it’ (and in this sense compared with Amen; it is placed at the commencement of most Hindū works, and as a sacred exclam

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1. ْم

om ind. (√ av, Uṇ. i, 141 ; originally oṃ = āṃ, which may be derived from ā, BRD. ), a word of solemn affirmation and respectful assent, sometimes translated by ‘yes, verily, so be it’ (and in this sense compared with Amen; it is placed at the commencement of most Hindū works, and as a sacred exclam

2. ْم

(Buddhists place om at the beginning of their vidyāṣaḍakṣarī or mystical formulary in six syllables [ viz. ommaṇipadmehūṃ]; according to T. om may be used in the following senses: praṇave, ārambhe, svīkāre, anumatau, apA kftO , asvīkāre, maṅgale, śubhe, jñeye, brahmaṇi; with preceding a or ā, the o

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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.