सोम

From Sanskrit सोम (sóma), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *sáwmas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwmas.

सोम • (som) m

1. (Hinduism) soma.
2. (uncommon) the moon.

   Synonyms: चांद (cānd), चंद्रमा (candramā)

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *sáwmas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwmas, from the verbal root *su- "to press out, extract". Cognate with Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀‎ (haoma), whence English haoma.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /s̪ɐ́w.mɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪oː.mɐ/

सोम • (sóma)

1. relating to soma (probably written for सौम (sauma))
2. (probably) together with उमा (umā)

सोम • (sóma) m

1. juice, extract, (especially) the juice of the soma plant, (also) the soma plant itself
2. Soma deity personified
   • RV 8.48.3

     अपाम सोममम्र्ता अभूमागन्म जयोतिरविदाम देवान |

     किं नूनमस्मान कर्णवदरातिः किमु धूर्तिरम्र्त मर्त्यस्य ||

     apāma somamamṛtā abhūmāghanma jyotiravidāma devān |

     kiṃ nūnamasmān kṛṇavadarātiḥ kimu dhūrtiramṛta martyasya ||

     We have drunk Soma and become immortal; we have attained the light, the Gods discovered.

     Now what may foeman's malice do to harm us? What, O Immortal, mortal man's deception?

3. the moon or moon-god
4. soma sacrifice
5. a day destined for extracting the soma-juice
6. Monday (= सोमवार (soma-vāra))
7. nectar
8. camphor
9. air, wind
10. water
11. a drug of supposed magical properties
12. a particular mountain or mountainous range (according to some the mountains of the moon)
13. a particular class of fathers (पितृ (pitṛ́)) (probably for सोमपा (soma-pā))
14. name of various authors (also with पण्डित (paṇḍita), भट्ट (bhaṭṭa), शर्मन् (śarman) etc.)
15. = सोमचन्द्र (somacandra), or सोमेन्दु (some-ndu)
16. name of a monkey-chief

• मास (mā́sa)
• चन्द्र (candrá)

सोम • (sóma) n

1. rice-water, rice-gruel
2. heaven, sky, ether

• Monier Williams (1899), “सोम”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 1249.