सोम

Hindi

noun

Definitions

(Hinduism) soma
(uncommon) the moon

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) derived from Proto-Indo-Aryan *sáwmas derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwmas.

Origin

Proto-Indo-Iranian

*sáwmas

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Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

Soma English
*sew- Proto-Indo-European
*humalaz Proto-Germanic
सोम Sanskrit
सोमनाथ Sanskrit
सोमवार Sanskrit
โสม Thai
*sáwmas Proto-Indo-Iranian
*sáwmas, *sáwHmas Proto-Indo-Iranian
*sáwmas Proto-Indo-Aryan
ހޯމަ Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian