English

a bridge over Kama in Perm

Proper noun

Kama

1. A major river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga.
   • 1979 August 20, Editorial: Limiting System Exports, Computerworld, page 14,

     It was led by Sen. Henry Javkson (D-Wash.), who referred at some length to an IBM computer and assorted other technology we have sold the Russians for use in their vast Kama River truck plant.

   • 1986, Soviet Geography, Volume 27, page 125,

     According to Ponomarev's calculations, the Kama in the 1890s annually supplied the Volga with up to 850000 logs, of which about 250000 came from the Chusovaya, about 250000 from the Vyatka and its tributaries, 150000 from the Belaya, […] .

   • 1995, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Solovʹev, History of Russia, page 33,

     He was ordered to seek out the rebels along the Kama and the Viatka.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit काम ‎(kā́ma, “love”).

Proper noun

Kama

1. (religion, Hinduism) The Hindu god of love, Kamadeva
   • 1956, Heinrich Robert Zimmer, Philosophies of India, page 145,

     Fundamentally, the doctrine and technique of Kāma go back to primitive antiquity.

   • 1969, Allie M. Frazier, Readings in Eastern Religious Thought: Hinduism, page 35,

     In Indian mythology, Kāma is the counterpart of Cupid.

   • 2001, Jagdish Lal Shastri, Arnold Kunst, G. P. Bhatt, Ancient Indian Tradition & Mythology, Volume 63, page 429,

     On seeing Kāma annihilated there, the Devas and the groups of celestial damsels became frightened.

   • 2006, Catherine Benton, God of Desire: Tales of Kamadeva in Sanskrit Story Literature, page 52,

     However, when Śiva saw the proud Kāma getting ready to let another arrow fly, he got angry.

Related terms

• Kamasutra

Synonyms

• Kamadeva

Hawaiian

Etymology

kama ‎(“child, person”). Often a short form of compound names containing this word.

Proper noun

Kama

1. A male given name, sometimes also given to women.
2. A surname​.

Related terms

• Kamalālāwalu
• Kamalani
• Kamalei
• Kamapuaʻa

References

• Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986
• Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Kama occurs in 19th century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 24 women and 37 men.

English

Noun

kama ‎(plural kama or kamas)

1. A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.

See also

• Kama (weapon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit काम ‎(kāma).

Noun

kama ‎(uncountable)

1. (India) The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.
   • 1958, V. Raghavan Chapter XII: Kāma, The Third End of Man, Stephen N Hay, William Theodore De Bary (editors), Sources of Indian Tradition, Volume 2, page 258,

     The place of kāma or the pursuit of love and pleasure in the balanced Hindu scheme of life derives from the importance attached to the life of the married householder (grhastha).

   • 2006, Indian Erotology, article in Alan Soble (editor), Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, Volume 1: A-L, page 493,

     Ancient Indian thought divides the principal aims of human existence into dharma (religion, morality, social obligations), artha (economics, politics, power), and kāma (erotic pleasure, sexual interaction, sexual gratification).

Derived terms

• kama rupa
• Kama Sutra

See also

• preman

Estonian

Noun

kama ‎(genitive kama, partitive kama)

1. finely milled flour mixture (Estonian/Finnish food, talkkuna in Finnish)
2. kama

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmɑ/

Noun

kama

1. one’s stuff (usually plural)

   Siivoa kamasi.‎

   Clean up your stuff.

2. (slang) narcotic drugs

Declension

Derived terms

• lällärikama

Japanese

Romanization

kama

1. rōmaji reading of かま

Lele (Chad)

Noun

kāmā

1. water

References

• Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3: m- (2007, ISBN 9789004164123), page 201:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Lele kāmā [Gowers], […]

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, ISBN 9042908262), page 38

Ontong Java

Noun

kama

1. human
2. man
3. person

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Japanese 鎌 ‎(kama, “sickle, scythe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

Noun

kȁma f ‎(Cyrillic spelling ка̏ма)

1. kama

Declension

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] ‎(kama) (Turkish kama).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

Noun

kȁma f ‎(Cyrillic spelling ка̏ма)

1. a kind of dagger

Declension

Etymology 3

From Sanskrit काम ‎(kā́ma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâːma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

Noun

kȃma m ‎(Cyrillic spelling ка̑ма)

1. (Hinduism) one of the four main goals of the material existence

Declension

References

• “kama” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “kama” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “kama” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swahili

Conjunction

kama

1. as

   Kama ulivyosema...‎

   As you said...

2. if

Synonyms

• (if): ikiwa

Verb

-kama ‎(infinitive kukama)

1. to milk

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish cama ‎(“bed”), from Late Latin, probably of Celtic or Iberian origin. Compare also camba.

Noun

kama

1. bed

Synonyms

• higaan

Turkish

Noun

kama

1. wedge
2. dagger