रामा
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Alternative forms
Noun edit
रामा
- Devanagari script form of rāmā, which is inflection of राम:
Sanskrit edit
Etymology edit
From राम (rāma).
Noun edit
रामा • (rāmā) stem, f
- a beautiful woman, any young and charming woman, mistress, wife, any woman KaṭhUp. MBh. &c. (for comp. » p.878)
- a dark woman
- name of various plants (Jonesia Asoka ; Aloe Perfoliata ; Asa Foetida &c.) L. vermilion L.
- red earth L.
- a kind of pigment (= गोरोचना) L.
- a river L.
- a kind of metre L.
- (music) a kind of measure Saṃgīt.
- name of an अप्सरस् L. Sch.
- name of a daughter of कुम्भाण्ड Hariv.
- name of the mother of the ninth अर्हत् of the present अवसर्पिणी L.
References edit
- Monier Williams (1899) “रामा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0878.