Soma
English
proper noun
Definitions
- (Hinduism) The soma juice, capitalized usually when mentioned in personified, deified form.
- used in India.
Etymology
Derived from Sanskrit सोम (also associated with the moon after the Vedic period, drunk as medicine and offered to gods, Monday, moon, a kind of boiled vine from Vedic India, soma plant, made from the plant soma).
Origin
Sanskrit
सोम
Gloss
also associated with the moon after the Vedic period, drunk as medicine and offered to gods, Monday, moon, a kind of boiled vine from Vedic India, soma plant, made from the plant soma
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
月