राम

Inherited from Sanskrit राम (rāma).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɾɑːm/,

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राम • (rām) m (Urdu spelling رام)

1. (Hinduism) Rama

   राम राम ― rām rām ― hello (among Hindus)

• जय श्री राम (jay śrī rām)
• जय सिया राम (jay siyā rām)
• रामराज्य (rāmrājya)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “राम”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “राम”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “राम”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “राम”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
• Hardev Bahri (2013) “राम”, in राजपाल हिंदी शब्दकोश [rājpāl hindī śabdakoś, Rajpal Hindi Dictionary], Rajpal and Sons, →ISBN

• “राम”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “राम”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

राम m

1. Devanagari script form of rāma (“delight”)

Unknown; possibly related to Old English rōmig (“sooty”), presuming Proto-Indo-European *HreH-mó-s.^[1][2] Monier considers it to be a derivation from रम् (ram, “to enjoy; to stay”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɾɑː.mɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɾɑː.mɐ/

राम • (rāma) stem

1. dark, dark-coloured, black (compare रात्रि (rātri))
2. white (?)
3. pleasing, pleasant, charming, lovely, beautiful

राम • (rāma) stem, m

1. a kind of deer
2. horse
3. lover
4. pleasure, joy, delight

राम • (rāma) stem, n

1. same meanings as masculine gender
2. the leaf of Laurus cassia
3. Chenopodium album
4. = कुष्ठ (kuṣṭha)

राम • (rāma) stem, m

1. (Hinduism) Rāma, son of Dasharatha and Kausalya, an avatar of Vishnu.

   Synonyms: दाशरथ (dāśaratha), पीताम्बर (pītāmbara), राघव (rāghava)

   • c. 500 BCE – 100 BCE, Rāmāyaṇa 1.29.24:

     अद्य गच्छामहे राम सिद्धाश्रममनुत्तमम्।
     तदाश्रमपदं तात तवाप्येतद्यथा मम॥

     adya gacchāmahe rāma siddhāśramamanuttamam.
     tadāśramapadaṃ tāta tavāpyetadyathā mama.

     O Rāma, now let's go to the unparalleled Siddhashrama.
     O child this asrama is the same to you as it is to me (treat this as your own).

2. an epithet of Varuna
3. name of various mythical personages in the Vedas.

• → Bengali: রাম (ram)
• → Burmese: ရာမ (rama.)
• → Chinese: 羅摩／罗摩 (Luómó)
• → Hindi: राम (rām)
• → Khmer: រាម (riəm)
• → Lao: ຣາມ (rām)
• → Malayalam: രാമൻ (rāmaṉ), രാമ (rāma), രാം (rāṁ), റാം (ṟāṁ)
• → Marathi: राम (rām)
• → Nepali: राम (rām)
• → Old Javanese: rāma
  • Javanese: ꦫꦩ (rama)
    • → Indonesian: rama, romo (semantic loan)
  • → Balinese: ᬭᬵᬫ (rama)
• → Odia: ରାମ (rāma)
• → Punjabi: ਰਾਮ (rām)
• → Sinhalese: රාම (rāma)
• → Tamil: இராமர் (irāmar)
• → Telugu: రాముఁడు (rāmun̆ḍu)
• → Thai: ราม (raam)

• Monier Williams (1899) “राम”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0877.