Kuma, Kumā, Kūma, Kūmā: 7 definitions

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Kuma means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, biology, Tamil. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

Wife of a householder in Velukanda in the Avanti country. She was the mother of Nanda Thera, also called Kumaputta. ThagA.1.100.

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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

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Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Kuma in Sierra Leone is the name of a plant defined with Saccharum officinarum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Saccharum officinarum var. jamaicense Sickenb. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Plantae Javanicae Rariores (1848)
· Adnotationes Botanicae (1829)
· Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’, ed. 1820 (1820)
· Flore des Antilles (1808)
· Taxon (1989)
· Report of the Harvard Botanical Gardens, Soledad Estate, Cienfuegos, Cuba (1927)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kūma (कूम).—A pond, pool.

Derivable forms: kūmam (कूमम्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kūma (कूम):—n. a lake, pond, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kūma (कूम):—(maṃ) 1. n. A lake, a pond.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kuma in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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