asama असम – Incomparable, without equal
adjective · substantive masculine · Word type unspecified
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AYI dictionary adjective
Incomparable, without equal
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Cappeller 1891 adjective
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asama1 ·a. unlike, uneven.
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ásama2 ·a. having no equal, incomparable.
Monier-Williams 1872 adjective
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asama a-sama, as, ā, am, uneven, unequal either in surface or number; odd; unequalled, indi- vidual, without a fellow or equal; (as), m. a N. of Buddha or a Buddha.
Petersburger 1855 adjective · substantive masculine · Word type unspecified
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1. asama (3. a + sama) adj. ungleich: na samau nāsamau M. 10,73. ungerade (von einer Zahl) in asamavāṇa, asamasāyaka und asameṣu.
Original text · German · adjective · substantive masculine
2. ásama (wie eben) 1〉 adj. nicht seines Gleichen habend, unvergleichlich, einzig: patìrbabhū̱thāsàmo̱ janā̀nām ṚV. 6,36,4. a̱yu̱jo asàmo̱ nṛbhìḥ ṚV. 8,52,2. bṛ̱hanta̱ṃ kṣaya̱masàma̱ṃ janā̀nām ṚV. 10,47,8. di̱dyutàḥ ṚV. 2,13,7. brahmā̀ṇi ṚV. 7,43,1. ṚV. 1,54,8. ṚV. 6,67,1. ṚV. 10,71,7. ṚV. 10,89,3. u̱ruḥ pràthatā̱masàmaḥ sva̱rgaḥ AV. 12,3,38. yo raṇeṣviva sarveṣu dyūteṣvapyasamo jayī KATHĀS. 23,32. asamasāhasika VET. 4,14. — 2〉 m. Buddha TRIK. 1,1,8.
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1. asama ungleich KIR. 5,7.
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2. asama 1〉 Spr. 1365.
Böhtlingk 1879 adjective · substantive masculine
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1. asama — 1〉 Adj. — a〉 ungleich, unebenbürtig GAUT. 17,20. Spr. 761. fg. — b〉 unpaar. — 2〉 m. ein best. Tact S. S. S. 233.
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2. ásama Adj. (f. ā) ohne Gleichen, unvergleichlich, einzig.
Apte 1890 adjective · substantive masculine
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asama a. 1 Uneven, odd (as a number); asamaśīlāḥ khalu mṛgāḥ Bv. 1. 2 mean, contemptible. 2 Unequal (in space, number or dignity); asamaiḥ samīyamānaḥ Pt. 1. 74. 3 Unequalled, matchless, unsurpassed; samavatārasamairasamaistaṭaiḥ Ki. 5. 7; vādyaviśeṣāṇāmasamaḥ śrotā K. 12; Ms. 10. 73. 4 Uneven, not level (as ground). — maḥ N. of Buddha. Comp. — iṣuḥ, -bāṇaḥ, -sāyakaḥ ‘having an odd number of arrows,’ epithets of Cupid who has five arrows. — nayana, -netra, -locana a. ‘having an odd number of eyes’, epithets of Śiva, who has three eyes. — vṛttaṃ a metre in which the ganas are not the same in all lines.
Cappeller 1887 Word type unspecified
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ásama ohnegleichen, unvergleichlich.
Burnouf 1866 adjective
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asama asama a. (sama) qui n'a pas son pareil, incomparable. — S. m. l'Incomparable, le Buddha.
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