रामा

See also: रोम, रमा, राम, रूम, रम, and रमी

Sanskrit

Etymology

From राम (rāma)

Noun

रामा • (rāmā) stem, f

1. a beautiful woman, any young and charming woman, mistress, wife, any woman KaṭhUp. MBh. &c. (for comp. » p.878)
2. a dark woman.
3. N. of various plants (Jonesia Asoka ; Aloe Perfoliata ; Asa Foetida &c.) L. vermilion L.
4. red earth L.
5. a kind of pigment (= गोरोचना) L.
6. a river L.
7. a kind of metre L.
8. (music) a kind of measure Saṃgīt.
9. N. of an अप्सरस् L. Sch.
10. N. of a daughter of कुम्भाण्ड Hariv.
11. N. of the mother of the ninth अर्हत् of the present अवसर्पिणी L.

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “रामा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0878.