1. sāman
1. sāman n. ( fr. √ 1. sā = 1. san) acquisition, possession, property, wealth, abundance, RV. ; VS.
The corpus record — Sanskrit
samāno
1. sāman n. ( fr. √ 1. sā = 1. san) acquisition, possession, property, wealth, abundance, RV. ; VS.
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Where it lives
- Prasna Upanisad 9 · 13.78/10k
- Svetasvatara Upanisad 1 · 5.82/10k
- Taittiriya Upanisad 3 · 5.66/10k
- Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 22 · 2.91/10k
- Chandogya Upanisad 10 · 2.13/10k
- Aitareya Upanisad 1 · 2.06/10k
What it meant — Monier-Williams
2. sāman
2. sāman n. ( m. only in TBr. ; prob. connected with √ sāntv; accord. to some fr. √ 1. sā; cf. 3. sāman) calming, tranquillizing, ( esp. ) kind or gentle words for winning an adversary, conciliation, negotiation (one of the 4 Upāya s or means of success against an enemy, the other 3 being dāna, bheda, and daṇḍa, qq.vv. ; ibc. or instr. sg. and pl. , ‘by friendly means or in a friendly way, willingly, voluntarily’), TBr. ; &c.
3. sāman
3. sāman n. (of doubtful derivation; accord. to Uṇ. iv, 152 fr. √ so = 2. sā, as ‘destroying sin’; in Nir. vii, 12 apparently connected with sammita; by others derived fr. √ 1. san, sā, sāntv, and perhaps not to be separated fr. 1. and 2. sāman) a metrical hymn or song of praise, ( esp. ) a partic. kind of sacred text or verse called a Sāman (intended to be chanted, and forming, with ṛc, yajus, chandas, one of the 4 kinds of Vedic composition mentioned first in RV. x, 90, 9 ), RV. &c. &c.
In the wild
- samāno Aitareya Upanisad aitup_1,1.1
- sāmāni Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,2.5
- sāmāni Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,2.6
- samāno Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,5.3
- samānaḥ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,5.4
- samāne Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_2,1.3
6 of 46 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. saman (vol. 3, scan p. 944; entry #18873).
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