उपमा

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Pali

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Noun

उपमा f

  1. Devanagari script form of upamā

Sanskrit

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Etymology

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Noun

उपमा (upamā) stemf

  1. similarity, resemblance
  2. simile, comparison

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Further reading

  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “upamā”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.