Namo: 7 definitions
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Namo means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit. 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.
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Pali-English dictionary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarynamo : (ind.) be my adoration to.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryNamo, (nt.) & Nama (nt.) (Ved. namas, cp. Av. n∂mo prayer; Gr. nέmos, Lat. nemus (see namati)) nomage, veneration, esp. used as an exclamation of adoration at the beginning of a book (namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa) Sn. 540, 544; PvA. 1, 67. (Page 347)
Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionarynamo (နမော) [(bya) (ဗျ)]—
[namo-saddā paṭhamāvikyeso namoç dutiyāvi kyeso namo hu 2-rhieiea．rū,nhā 133．nīti,sutta．379．namo atthu,namokarohi nāgassa．ayaṃ paṭhamādutiyānaṃ ekavacanassa lopo．nīti,sutta．94．namoti padaṃ nipātesupi labbhati,tenahi paccattopayogavacanāni abhinnarūpānidissanti ]]devarāja namo tyatthu,namokatvā mahesino]]ti．nīti,dhā．133．vandane namo,．1154．abyaya．namo na．amara 24．18．avyaya-．]
[နမော-သဒ္ဒါသည် ပဌမာဝိဘတ်ကျေသော နမော,ဒုတိယာဝိဘတ် ကျေသော နမော ဟု ၂-မျိုးရှိ၏။ ရူ၊နှာ ၁၃၃။ နီတိ၊သုတ္တ။၃၇၉။ နမော အတ္ထု၊ နမောကရောဟိ နာဂဿ။ အယံ ပဌမာဒုတိယာနံ ဧကဝစနဿ လောပေါ။ နီတိ၊ သုတ္တ။၉၄။နမောတိ ပဒံ နိပါတေသုပိ လဗ္ဘတိ၊ တေနဟိ ပစ္စတ္တောပယောဂဝစနာနိ အဘိန္နရူပါနိဒိဿန္တိ ＂ဒေဝရာဇ နမော တျတ္ထု၊ နမောကတွာ မဟေသိနော＂တိ။ နီတိ၊ဓာ။၁၃၃။ဝန္ဒနေ နမော၊ ဓာန်။၁၁၅၄။ အဗျယဝဂ်။ နမော နတော်။ အမရ ၂၄။၁၈။ အဝျယ-ဝဂ်။]
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryNamo (नमो):—[from nam] in [compound] for mas.
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionaryṆamo (णमो) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Namas.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusṆamō (ಣಮೋ):—
1) [noun] the act of saluting another reverentially.
2) [noun] the word used to express one’s reverence to another.
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Namō (ನಮೋ):—
1) [noun] = ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ - [namaskara -]2) [noun] a term used to convey one’s desperation, frustration etc.; 'enough!'.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with (+11): Namakkara, Namo Namo Karanem, Namoccarana, Namoccaranam, Namogotta, Namoguru, Namokara, Namokasa, Namokti, Namollekha, Namona, Namonama, Namonamah, Namonarayana, Namongha, Namongol, Namonishan, Namonishana, Namosha, Namostu.
Full-text (+142): Namoguru, Namovridh, Namovridha, Namovrikti, Namovaka, Namakkara, Namo Namo Karanem, Namas, O-namonarayanaya, Dvadashapattraka, Tuvatacatcari, Dvadashakshara, Ratnatraya, Namovriktivat, Nama, Namatthu, Namokara, Tangacai, Vrikti, Vridha.
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