nAman n. [ mnAyate aByaMsyate namyate arBiDIyate arTo'nena vA ] 1 A name, appellation, personal name ( opp. gotra ); kiM nu nAmEtadasyAH Mu. 1. 1 ; nAma grah ‘to address or call upon by name;’ nAmagrAhamarodItsA Bk. 5. 5 ; nAma kf or dA, nAmnA or nAmataH kf ‘to give a name, call, name’; cakAra nAmnA raGumAtmasaMBavaM R. 3. 21 , 5. 36 ; tO kuSalavO cakAra kila nAmataH 15. 32 ; caMdrApIqa iti nAma cakre K. 74 ; mAtaraM nAmataH pfcCeyaM Ś. 7. 2 The mere name; saMtaptAyasi samsTitasya payaso nAmApi na jYAyate Bh. 2. 67 ‘not even the name, i. e. no trace or mark is seen’ &c.; Pt. 1. 250. 3 (In gram. ) A noun, substantive ( opp. AKyAta ); tannAma yenABidaDAti sattvaM ; sattvapraDAnAni nAmAni Nir. 4 A word, name, synonymous word; iti vfkzanAmAni . 5 Substance ( opp. guRa ). 6 Water. 7 Ved. Mark, sign, token. 8 Form, mode, manner. Comp. — aMka a. marked with a name; R. 12. 103. — anuSAsanaM, -aBiDAnaM 1 declaring one's name. 2 a dictionary, lexicon. — aparADaH abusing (a respectable man) by name, calling names. — AKyAtika a. relating to nouns and verbs. — AvalI a list of names (of a god). — karaRaM, -karman n. 1 the ceremony of naming a child after birth. 2 a nominal affix. — grahaH, -grahaRaM addressing or mentioning by name, utterance of the name, calling to mind the name; puRyAni nAmagrahaRAnyapi mahAmunInAM K. 43 ; Ms. 8. 271 ; R. 7. 41 ; 6. 67. — grAhaM ind. by naming, by mentioning the name; Bk. 5. 5. — tyAgaH abandonment of name; svanAmatyAgaM karomi Pt. 1 ‘I shall forego my name’. ( pb ) — dvAdaSI a kind of religious ceremony, the worship of Durgā daily under one of her 12 names. — DAtuH a nominal verb, denominative base (as pArTAyate, vfzasyati &c.). — DAraka , — DArin a. bearing only the name, in name only, nominal; Pt. 2. 84. — DeyaM 1 a name, appellation; vanajyotsneti kftanAmaDeyA Ś. 1 ; kiM nAmaDeyA sA M. 4 ; R. 1. 45 , 10. 67 , 11. 8 ; Ms. 2. 30. 2 the ceremony of naming a child. — nAmikaH an epithet of Viṣṇu. — nirdeSaH indication by name. — mAtra a. having only the name, nominal, in name; Pt. 1. 77 ; 2. 86. — (traM) the mere name or mention (of a thing); nAmamAtraprastAvo Be vizAdAya kalpate Ś. 7 ; Pt. 3. 81 ; H. 1. 128 ; nAmamAtrAvaSezitAH SatravaH Rām. — mAlA, -saMgrahaH a list of names, glossary (of nouns). — mudrA a seal-ring, signet-ring; uBe nAmamudrAkzarARyanuvAcya parasparamavalokayataH Ś. 1. — liMgaM gender of nouns. °anuSAsanaM rules on the gender of nouns. — varjita a. 1 nameless. 2 stupid, foolish. — vAcaka a. expressing a name. — (kaM) a proper name. — Seza a. having only the name left, remaining in name only, dead, deceased; U. 2. 6.