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Kama

//kɑmə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A major river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga.

    "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."

  2. 2
    The Hindu god of love, Kamadeva Hinduism

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

  3. 3
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.
  2. 2
    The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition. Hinduism, uncountable

    "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)."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit काम (kā́ma).

Etymology 3

From Russian Ка́ма (Káma).

Etymology 4

From Sanskrit काम (kā́ma, “love”).

Etymology 5

Various origins: * Borrowed from Hindi काम (kām), a typical surname of Andhra Pradesh. * Borrowed from Polish Kama, a surname of unexplained origin. * Borrowed from Turkish Kama, a metonymic occupational surname from kama (“wedge”).

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