yama (m)
Meanings
- a bad horse (whose limbs are either too small or too large)
- a crow
- a driver
- a fellow
- a rein
- a symbolical name for the number "two"
- a twin
- bridle
- charioteer
- curb
- name of one of Skanda's attendants (mentioned together with Atiyama)
- name of the god who presides over the Pitṛs and rules the spirits of the dead
- name of the planet Saturn (regarded as the son of Vivasvat and Chāyā)
- one of a pair or couple
- restraint
- suppression
- the act of checking or curbing
Sememes
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