haoma

From Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀‎ (haoma), from Old Iranian verbal root hu- "to press", from *su- "to press out, extract". Sanskrit सोम (sóma) derives from the same PIIr root.

haoma (uncountable)

1. (Zoroastrianism) A plant and corresponding personified divinity, Haoma.
   • 1999, Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter Willem van der Horst, Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible: DDD, p. 384:

     The offering of haoma was a common practice among Achaemenids; the Haumavarga Scythians probably owe their name to the fact that they did not press the plant but strewed it ritually (HOFFMANN 1975).

• parahaoma, the extracted juice of the haoma plant

• Amoah, Omaha