Usma, Ushma, Usmā, Uṣma, Ūṣma: 21 definitions
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Usma means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi. 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.
The Sanskrit terms Uṣma and Ūṣma can be transliterated into English as Usma or Ushma, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Ūṣmā (ऊष्मा).—The son of the Agni (Fire) named Pāñcajanya. (Mahābhārata Vana Parva, Chapter 221, Stanza 4).
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Ayurveda (science of life)
Ūṣmā (ऊष्मा):—Hotness; Heat
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
Ūṣma (ऊष्म) is the name of the seat (pīṭha [=maṭha?]) associated with the sacred seat of Jālandhara (jālapītha), according to the Manthānabhairavatantra, a vast sprawling work that belongs to a corpus of Tantric texts concerned with the worship of the goddess Kubjikā.—Accordingly, “ The sacred seat Jāla is the Unmanifest. It is well placed in the southern quarter. [...] The sacred seat (i.e. maṭha?) Ūṣma, very fierce, is pure in heaven and on the earth. The gesture is Vikārālyā, which removes the fear of phenomenal existence. Conjoined with the (secret) language and the Choma, this is the unstruck sound of Jālāvvā. Well known as the Vidyā, the three worlds bow to it. Accomplished, divine, with six faces, giving supreme bliss, the guardian of the field is called ‘Jaya’. I praise the sacred seat Jāla, revered by the gods, which is divided into sixteen divisions”.
Shakta (शाक्त, śākta) or Shaktism (śāktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Uṣmā (उष्मा) refers to one of the primary thirty-two energy-channels in the body, according to the Sampuṭodbhavatantra chapter 1.—Accordingly, “[Vajragarbha asked, ‘What subtle energy channels are in the body?’]—The Blessed One said, ‘There are one hundred and twenty of them, corresponding to the divisions within the four cakras. The chief ones, those with bodhicitta as their innate nature, are thirty-two in number. They are: [i.e., Uṣmā] [...]’.”.
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
usmā : (m.) heat.
Usmā, (f.) (see usumā) heat D. II, 335, 338; M. I, 295; S. II, III, 143; IV, 215, 294; V, 212; Dhs. 964; DA. I, 310.—In combn. with °kata it appears as usmī°, e.g. at M I 132, 258.
usmā (ဥသ္မာ) [(thī,pu) (ထီ၊ပု)]—
[usū+ma．(vi,pi,)．usu+ma．usati dahatīti usmā,tejodhatu．7．137．usanaṃ dahanaṃ usmā．nīti,sutta,nhā．334．ī rūpasaddhi．653-nitea puṃ,brahmādihu eiea．pāḷiaṭṭhakathānitea itthi raeiea．]
[ဥသူ+မ။ (ဝိ၊ပိ၊ဓာန်)။ ဥသု+မ။ ဥသတိ ဒဟတီတိ ဥသ္မာ၊ တေဇောဓတု။ မောဂ်၊ ၇။ ၁၃၇။ ဥသနံ ဒဟနံ ဥသ္မာ။ နီတိ၊ သုတ္တ၊ နှာ။ ၃၃၄။ ဤပုဒ်ကို ရူပသဒ္ဓိ။ ၆၅၃-သုတ်၌ ပုံလိင်၊ ဗြဟ္မာဒိဂိုဏ်းဟု ဆို၏။ ပါဠိအဋ္ဌကထာတို့၌ ဣတ္ထိလိင်ဖြင့် တွေ့ရ၏။]
[Pali to Burmese]
usmā—
(Burmese text): (၁) အပူ၊ ပူလောင်ခြင်း၊ တေဇောဓာတ်၊ ကိုယ်ငွေ့၊ ကမ္မဇတေဇောဓာတ်၊ ဝမ်းမီး။ (၂) တန်းခိုးအရှိန်အစော်။ ဥသ္မီကတ-ကြည့်။ ဥသ္မာကာရ-(၃)-လည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Heat, burning, fire element, body heat, elemental fire, and belly fire. (2) The pace of breaking the line. Observe the behavior of the shy one. Observe the greatness as well.
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.
Marathi-English dictionary
uṣmā (उष्मा).—m (S) Heat (of the sun or weather, or from fire).
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ūṣmā (ऊष्मा).—m (uṣmā S) Heat (as of the sun or weather or from fire).
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ūṣmā (ऊष्मा).—a S In grammar. Sibilant. It is applied to the letters śa, ṣa, sa, ha.
uṣmā (उष्मा).—m Heat (of the sun, &c.).
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ūṣmā (ऊष्मा).—m Heat.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Uṣma (उष्म).—[uṣ-mak]
1) Heat.
2) The hot season, summer.
3) Spring.
4) Anger, warmth of temper.
5) Ardour, eagerness, zeal.
Derivable forms: uṣmaḥ (उष्मः).
See also (synonyms): uṣmaka.
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Uṣma (उष्म).—&c. See under उष् (uṣ).
Derivable forms: uṣmam (उष्मम्).
See also (synonyms): uṣpa.
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Ūṣma (ऊष्म).—a. Hot.
-ṣmaḥ 1 Heat.
2) Summer.
Uṣma (उष्म).—m.
(-ṣmaḥ) 1. The hot season, (June and July.) 2. Spring, (April and May.) 3. Heat. 4. Anger, warmth of temper. 5. Ardor, eagerness. E. uṣ to burn, mak affix; also with kan affix uṣmaka, also uṣṇa and uṣṇaka.
1) Uṣma (उष्म):—[from uṣ] 1. uṣma m. heat, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
2) [v.s. ...] the hot season, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
3) [v.s. ...] spring, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
4) [v.s. ...] passion, anger, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
5) [v.s. ...] ardour, eagerness, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
6) [v.s. ...] 2. uṣma (in [compound] for uṣman below).
7) Ūṣma (ऊष्म):—[from ūṣman] (in [compound] for ūṣman above).
8) Ūṣmā (ऊष्मा):—[from ūṣman] f. vapour, steam, [Mahābhārata xiii.]
Uṣma (उष्म):—(ṣmaḥ) 1. m. Idem. Heat; anger.
Uṣma (उष्म):—(von 1. uṣ) m.
1) Hitze [Śabdakalpadruma] —
2) die heisse Jahreszeit. —
3) Frühling [Uṇādikoṣa im Śabdakalpadruma] —
4) Zorn [Śabdakalpadruma] — Vgl. uṣman .
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Ūṣmā (ऊष्मा):—f. = ūṣman
1) [Mahābhārata 13, 4061] nach der Lesart der ed. Bomb., uṣmā ed. Calc.
Uṣma (उष्म):—m. —
1) Hitze. —
2) die heisse Jahreszeit. —
3) Frühling. —
4) Zorn.
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Ūṣma (ऊष्म):—[Ārṣeyabrāhmaṇa 583.] fehlerhaft für uṣṇa.
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Ūṣmā (ऊष्मा):—f. Dampf [Mahābhārata 13,85,46.]
Ūṣmā (ऊष्मा) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Umhāa.
Uṣmā (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 焰熾 [yàn chì]: “burning brightly”.
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.
Hindi dictionary
1) Uṣmā (उष्मा):—(nf) see [ūṣmā].
2) Ūṣmā (ऊष्मा):—(nf) heat; warmth.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Ūṣma (ಊಷ್ಮ):—
1) [noun] an amount of warmth or hot temperature.
2) [noun] the warmest season of the year; summer.
3) [noun] (gram.) any of the alphabets ಶ, ಷ, ಸ [sha, sha, sa] & ಹ; a sibilant letter.
4) [noun] a mentally quick, smart, clever, bright man.
5) [noun] vapourised water; steam.
6) [noun] the scorching sun-light.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
1) Ūṣma (ऊष्म):—n. 1. Phonol. fricative; 2. heat;
2) Ūṣmā (ऊष्मा):—n. summer season; hot season;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Usu, Ma.
Starts with (+20): Ushma-varna, Ushmabhaga, Ushmabhas, Ushmabheda, Ushmada, Ushmadharita, Ushmadhvani, Ushmagama, Ushmagata, Ushmaja, Ushmaka, Ushmakabhas, Ushmakagama, Ushmakanvita, Ushmakapa, Ushmanvita, Ushmapa, Ushmapara, Ushmapitha, Ushmaprakriti.
Full-text (+71): Ushmapa, Ushmagama, Ushmasveda, Ushmaja, Ushmagata, Ushmopagama, Ushmabhas, Ushmata, Ushmapura, Ushmavat, Ushmabhaga, Ushmatva, Ushmanvita, Usmadhatu, Kayusma, Usmapatibaddha, Usmasabhava, Usmupanibandha, Usmadubbala, Kammajusma.
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