nāman

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[apte] n. [mnāyate abhyaṃsyate namyate arbhidhī- yate artho'nena vā] 1 A name, ap- pellation, personal name (opp. gotra); kiṃ nu nāmaitadasyāḥ Mu. 1. 1; nāma grah ‘to address or call upon by name;’ nāmagrāhamarodītsā Bk. 5. 5; nāma kṛ or dā, nāmnā or nāmataḥ kṛ ‘to give a name, call, name’; cakāra nāmnā raghumātmasaṃbhavaṃ R. 3. 21, 5. 36; tau kuśalavau cakāra kila nāmataḥ 15. 32; caṃdrāpīḍa iti nāma cakre K. 74; mātaraṃ...

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n. [mnāyate abhyaṃsyate namyate arbhidhī- yate artho'nena vā] 1 A name, ap- pellation, personal name (opp. gotra); kiṃ nu nāmaitadasyāḥ Mu. 1. 1; nāma grah ‘to address or call...

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Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

2,148

Texts Appeared In

159

DCS: name of a serpentdemon

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Mahābhārata 279 13.0%
2. Liṅgapurāṇa 105 4.9%
3. Skandapurāṇa (Revākhaṇḍa) 103 4.8%
4. Rāmāyaṇa 88 4.1%
5. Viṣṇupurāṇa 73 3.4%

Concordance (Sample)

• Manusmṛti surface: nāmnoḥ

  samānodakabhāvas tu janmanāmnor avedane

• Manusmṛti surface: nāmni

  jātadantasya vā kuryur nāmni vāpi kṛte sati

• Manusmṛti surface: nām

  na tu nāmāpi gṛhṇīyāt patyau prete parasya tu