रामा

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• rāmā (Latin script)
• 𑀭𑀸𑀫𑀸 (Brahmi script)
• রামা (Bengali script)
• රාමා (Sinhalese script)
• ရာမာ or ရႃမႃ (Burmese script)
• รามา (Thai script)
• ᩁᩣᨾᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ຣາມາ (Lao script)
• រាមា (Khmer script)
• 𑄢𑄂𑄟𑄂 (Chakma script)

Noun

रामा

1. Devanagari script form of rāmā, which is inflection of राम:
   1. ablative singular
   2. nominative/vocative plural (rāma, “delight”)

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. name 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. name of an अप्सरस् L. Sch.
10. name of a daughter of कुम्भाण्ड Hariv.
11. name 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.