Pāli Dictionary

sāmā1

sāmastemāsuffix

Part of speech

noun · feminine

Root

sam3be calm

cosmology

  • name of several women in Buddhist literature, including an arahant nun (Sāmā Therī), chief female disciples of past Buddhas, and a courtesan

  • Thig 2.10

    itthaṃ sudaṃ sāmā therī gāthaṃ abhāsitthā'ti.

  • Thig 3.1

    itthaṃ sudaṃ aparā sāmā therī gāthaṃ abhāsitthā'ti.

sāmā2

sāmastemāsuffix

Part of speech

noun · feminine

general

  • a woman of dark or brown complexion

  • a kind of medicinal plant; millet; a creeper (such as the Priyangu creeper)

sāma1

approximate

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

sam3be calm

general

  • peace; tranquillity; appeasement

sama1

approximate

samrootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

sam3be calm

Synonyms

sāmañña, samatha

Antonyms

visama, asama

meditation

  • calmness; tranquillity; serenity; mental quiet

sāma2

approximate

Part of speech

adjective

general

  • brown; dark brown; black; dark

  • MN 36

    kāḷo samaṇo gotamo'ti. ekacce manussā evam'āhaṃsu, na kāḷo samaṇo gotamo, sāmo samaṇo gotamo'ti. ekacce manussā evam'āhaṃsu, na kāḷo samaṇo gotamo, na'pi sāmo, maṅguracchavi samaṇo gotamo'ti.

  • MN 63

    so evaṃ vadeyya, na tāv'āhaṃ imaṃ sallaṃ āharissāmi yāva na taṃ purisaṃ jānāmi yen'amhi viddho, kāḷo vā sāmo vā maṅguracchavī vā'ti

  • song; sacred song; devotion; worship; the Sāmaveda

  • Sāma (name of a king, a Bodhisatta, a hound, and Devadatta in a past life)

sama2

approximate

Part of speech

adjective

Synonyms

samāna, kappa, sadisa, sarikkha

Antonyms

visama, asama, visesī

general

  • equal; like; the same; identical (to)

  • Snp 2.1

    yaṃ kiñci vittaṃ idha vā huraṃ vā, saggesu vā yaṃ ratanaṃ paṇītaṃ, na no samaṃ atthi tathāgatena, idam'pi buddhe ratanaṃ paṇītaṃ, etena saccena suvatthi hotu.

  • Snp 4.10

    upekkhako sadā sato, na loke maññate samaṃ, na visesī na nīceyyo, tassa no santi ussadā.

  • even; level; balanced; flat

  • (as noun or adverb) equality; similarity; even ground; altogether; equally; justly

ethics

  • impartial; upright; just; moral; righteous

samā

approximate

Part of speech

noun · feminine

Synonyms

vassa, saṃvacchara, hāyana, vacchara

general

  • year

  • Dhp 106

    māse māse sahassena, yo yajetha sataṃ samaṃ, ekañ'ca bhāvit'attānaṃ, muhuttam'api pūjaye, sā'y'eva pūjanā seyyo, yañ'ce vassasataṃ hutaṃ.

  • SN 1.38

    pañcavedā sataṃ samaṃ, tapassī brāhmaṇā caraṃ, cittañ'ca nesaṃ na sammā vimuttaṃ, hīn'attharūpā na pāraṅ'gamā te.

Encyclopedia

10 entries

Sāmā
Person

  • The chief female disciple of the Buddha Kakusandha.

Sāmā2
Person

  • One of the chief laywomen disciples of the Buddha Koṇāgamana.

Sāmā3
Person

  • A courtesan of Bārāṇasī whose story is told in the Kaṇavera Jātaka.

Sāmā4
Person

  • A woman of an eminent Kosambī family who, grief-stricken after her friend Sāmāvatī’s death, eventually attained Arahantship on hearing Ānanda teach.

Sāmā5
Person

  • A woman of a Kosambī family who, distressed by the death of her friend Sāmāvatī, struggled for twenty-five years before attaining Arahantship in old age after hearing a discourse.

Sāmā6
Other

  • The original name of Sāmāvatī.

Sāma
Personapproximate

  • A king of Bārāṇasī who appears in the Giridanta Jātaka.

Sāma2
Otherapproximate

  • One of the hounds of the Lokantaraniraya, the dark interstitial hell.

Sāma3
Personapproximate

  • The Bodhisatta born as a hunter’s son, also known as Suvaṇṇasāma, whose story is told in the Suvaṇṇasāma Jātaka and who is cited as an example of conception without sexual intercourse.

Sāma4
Personapproximate

  • A man named in the Milindapañha as Devadatta’s identity in a past-life story where the Bodhisatta was the deer-king Ruru, apparently referring to the Rurumigarāja Jātaka.

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