Tamra, Tāmra, Tāmrā: 36 definitions

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Tamra (तम्र):—

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Tāmra (ताम्र):—1. [Uṇādisūtra 2, 16.]

1) adj. f. ā dunkelroth, kupferroth [das 3, 7.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 352.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 428.] [Medinīkoṣa r. 44.] [VIŚVA] bei [UJJVAL.] tāmra, aruṇa (in [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] und [Medinīkoṣa] diesem gleichgesetzt) [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 16, 6. 39.] nakhī [Mahābhārata 1, 3295.] śīrṣa (krauñca) [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 2, 15.] locana [2, 34, 13.] [Pañcatantra 220, 1.] tāmrāsya [Mahābhārata 4, 165.] tāmroṣṭha [Kumārasaṃbhava 1, 45.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 23, 41.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 16, 81.] mūrdhaja [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 23, 16.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 14, 44. -] [Indralokāgamana 5, 12.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 58, 22. fg.] [Suśruta 1, 127, 2. 200, 16. 268, 16. 295, 16. 2, 307, 7.] [Śākuntala 69.] [Kumārasaṃbhava 3, 65.] kṛṣṇa [Sūryasiddhānta 6, 23.] f. [Raghuvaṃśa 2, 15.] tāmrā (tvak) heisst die vierte unter den sieben Häuten, die nach [Suśruta] am entstehenden Embryo sich bilden, [1, 326, 7.] Vgl. pratāmra . —

2) m. a) eine Art Aussatz mit kupferrothen Flecken [KARMAVIPĀKA im Śabdakalpadruma] — b) Nomen proprium α) eines Mannes; vgl. tāmrāyaṇa . = β) einer Insel: dvīpaṃ tāmrāhvayam [Mahābhārata 2, 1172]; vgl. tāmradvīpa und [Lassen’s Indische Alterthumskunde I, 570, Nalopākhyāna 1.] —

3) f. ā a) Name verschiedener Pflanzen: α) = mañjiṣṭhā Rubia Munjista Roxb. [NIGH. PR.] — β) = raktaguñjā Abrus precatorius Lin. [NIGH. PR.] — γ) = saiṃhalī [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] Unter tāmravallī erscheint das Wort im [Śabdakalpadruma] nach ders. Aut. auch als Synonym von dieser Pflanze. — b) Nomen proprium einer Tochter Dakṣa’s, einer der Gemahlinnen Kaśyapa’s und Mutter verschiedener Vögel, [Mahābhārata 1, 2620.] [Harivaṃśa 170. 221. fg.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 20, 12. 18.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 122.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 6, 25. 27.] — c) Nomen proprium eines Flusses [Mahābhārata 3, 12909. 6, 335.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 183.] —

4) n. a) dunkele Röthe [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] — b) Kupfer [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 352.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1039.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [VIŚVA.] [Kauśika’s Sūtra zum Atuarvaveda 16.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 5, 114. 8, 131. 11, 167.] [Harivaṃśa 16265.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 38, 20. 4, 44, 23.] [Suśruta 1, 228, 1. 2, 67, 9. 336, 17.] [Pañcatantra 241, 11.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 6, 13. 47, 46. 53, 71.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 386.] [Prabodhacandrodaja 22, 18.] [Scholiast] zu [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 1, 3, 12.] tāmralohaiḥ [Mahābhārata 2, 2091.] — c) dunkelrothes Sandelholz [Wilson’s Wörterbuch] mṛṣṭānulepin [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 83, 17.]

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Tāmra (ताम्र):—2. (von 1. tāmra Kupfer)

1) adj. f. ī kupfern [YAMA] bei [Kullūka] zu [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 6, 53.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 21, 17.] [Suśruta 1, 99, 5. 171, 9.] f. [BHAVIṢYOTTARA-Pāṇini’s acht Bücher] in [morgenländischen Gesellschaft 6, 94, 3.] —

2) f. ī ein Gefäss aus Kupfer mit einer Oeffnung im Boden, welches in Wasser gestellt sich allmählich füllt und auf diese Weise zur Messung der Zeit dient (vgl. tāmrapātra), [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 1, 1, 121.]

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Tāmra (ताम्र):—1.

1) ā [Lassen’s Anthologie (II) 90, 4.] —

2) b) α) ein Sohn des Naraka Bhauma [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 10, 59, 12.] — β) Nomen proprium einer Oertlichkeit [Oxforder Handschriften 338,b,36.] —

4) c) der [Scholiast] des [Rāmāyaṇa] : gorocanakuṅkumādisaṃbandhastāmravarṇaṃ mṛṣṭaṃ saṃpūrṇamanulepo nulepanaṃ yeṣāṃ te .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Tamra (तम्र):—Adj. (f. ā) beengend , erstickend oder verdunkelnd.

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Tāmra (ताम्र):—1. —

1) Adj. (f. ā) dunkelroth , kupferroth [294,24.] —

2) m. — a) eine Art Aussatz mit kupferrothen Flecken. — b) Nomen proprium — α) eines Sohnes des Naraka Bhauma. — β) einer Insel. — γ) einer Oertlichkeit. —

3) f. ā (sc. tvac) — a) die vierte unter den 7 Häuten am entstehenden Embryo. — b) *Rubia Munjista. — c) *rother Abrus. — d) *eine Art Pfeffer. — e) * = sūkṣmavallī [Rājan 3,110.] — f) Nomen proprium — α) einer Tochter Dakṣa's. — β) eines Flusses. —

4) n. — a) *dunkle Rothe. — b) Kupfer. — c) ein kupferner Behälter [Mahābhārata 2,61,29.] — d) *dunkelrothes Sandelholz.

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Tāmra (ताम्र):—2. —

1) Adj. (f. ī) kupfern.

2) f. ī eine Art Wasseruhr.

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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.

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