सोम

Borrowed from Sanskrit सोम (soma).

सोम • (som) m

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

   Synonyms: चांद (cānd), चंद्रमा (candramā)

सोम

1. breath
2. life
3. soul

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *sáwHmas (“soma”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwHmas (“soma”), from the verbal root *saw- (“to press out, extract”) from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁-. Cognate with Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀‎ (haoma).

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

सोम • (sóma) m

1. the Soma drink; the juice or extract, of the soma plant
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 8.48.3:

     अपाम सोमम्अमृता अभूमागन्म ज्योतिरविदाम देवान् ।
     किं नूनमस्मान्कृणवदरातिः किमु धूर्तिरमृत मर्त्यस्य ॥

     apāma somamamṛtā abhūmāganma jyotiravidāma devān .
     kiṃ nūnamasmānkṛṇavadarātiḥ kimu dhūrtiramṛta martyasya .

     We have drunk Soma and become immortal. We have gone to the light and found the gods.
     Now what may the enemy's malice do to harm us? What, O Immortal, mortal man's deception?

2. the soma plant itself
3. the moon
4. soma sacrifice
5. a day destined for extracting the soma-juice

• → Punjabi: ਸੋਮ (som)

सोम • (sóma) m

1. Soma personified as a deity
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 8.48.8:

     सोम राजन्मृळया नः स्वस्ति तव स्मसि व्रत्यास्तस्य विद्धि ।
     अलर्ति दक्ष उत मन्युरिन्दो मा नो अर्यो अनुकामं परा दाः ॥

     soma rājanmṛḷayā naḥ svasti tava smasi vratyāstasya viddhi .
     alarti dakṣa uta manyurindo mā no aryo anukāmaṃ parā dāḥ .

     King Soma, favour us and make us prosper: we are thy devotees; of this be mindful.
     Spirit and power are fresh in us, O Indu give us not up unto our foeman's pleasure.

2. a name of the moon-god

• मास (mā́sa)
• चन्द्र (candrá)

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