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Basque

Noun

sama inan

1. neck

Cebuano

Adjective

sama

1. like
2. same

Dyula

Noun

sama

1. elephant

Synonyms

• sogoba

See also

• samabolo
• samaden
• samanun

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from English same.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sama/
• Rhymes: -ama

Adjective

sama (accusative singular saman, plural samaj, accusative plural samajn)

1. equal

   Synonym: egala

2. same; alike

3. unvarying

Antonyms

• alia (“other”)
• malsama, nesama (“different”)

Derived terms

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *samaz. Cognates include English same and Swedish samma.

Pronoun

sama

1. same

Adjective

sama (genitive sama, partitive sama)

1. same

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sama (compare Estonian sama, Karelian sama, Votic sama), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *samaz (compare Swedish samma, English same; also borrowed into Sami, compare Northern Sami seamma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m?/, [?s??m?]
• Rhymes: -?m?
• Syllabification: sa?ma

Pronoun

sama

1. same

Adjective

sama (not comparable)

1. same

Declension

Derived terms

Compounds

Anagrams

• Maas, Masa

Gothic

Romanization

sama

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Hausa

Noun

samà m or f (plural sàmàmai, possessed form samàn)

1. sky, heavens
2. top

Adverb

samà

1. on top
2. in the sky

Icelandic

Adverb

sama

1. indifferently

See also

Anagrams

• masa

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto sama, English same.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sama/

Adjective

sama

1. same

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ma/
• Hyphenation: sa?ma
• Rhymes: -a

Etymology 1

From Malay sama, from Sanskrit ?? (sama, “same, equal”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *samás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *samás, from Proto-Indo-European *somHós (“same”).

Adjective

sama (plural sama-sama)

1. same

2. equal

Derived terms

See also

• sama-sama

Etymology 2

Semantic loan from Betawi ame.

Preposition

sama

1. (colloquial, slang) with

Synonyms

• dengan

Further reading

• “sama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Anagrams

• masa

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sama, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *samaz. Cognates include Finnish sama and Estonian sama.

Possibly merged with Russian ????? (samyj, “selfsame”).

Pronunciation

• (Hevaha, Soikkola) IPA^(key): /?s?m?/
• Hyphenation: sa?ma

Determiner

sama

1. same
2. Synonym of sesama (“selfsame”)

Declension

Derived terms

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) I?oran Keelen Grammatikka?^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 101
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 503
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[4], page 159

Jamamadí

Adjective

sama

1. (Banawá) downriver

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Japanese

Romanization

sama

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latvian

Noun

sama m

1. genitive singular form of sams

Livonian

Etymology

Borrowing from a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian som.

Noun

sama

1. catfish

Malay

Etymology

Several etymologies have been proposed:

• Borrowed from Sanskrit ?? (sama, “same, equal”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *samás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *samás, from Proto-Indo-European *somHós (“same”).
• Inherited from Proto-Malayic *sama, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sama (“mate; alike; together with”).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /sa.m?/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /sa.ma/
• Rhymes: -am?, -m?

Adjective

sama (Jawi spelling ????, plural sama-sama)

1. same

2. equal

3. (informal) with

   Synonym: dengan

Derived terms

Anagrams

• masa

Further reading

• "sama" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, ?ISBN, 2005.
• “sama” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-k??gama.

Verb

sama

1. to lean on
2. to rest the head

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Related to sœma, from Proto-Germanic *s?mijan? (“to fit”).

Verb

sama (past indicative samdi, supine samat)

1. to beseem, befit, become

Conjugation

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

sama

1. inflection of samr (“same”):
   1. strong feminine accusative singular
   2. strong masculine accusative plural
   3. weak masculine oblique singular
   4. weak feminine nominative singular
   5. weak neuter singular

Determiner

sama

1. inflection of samr (“same”):
   1. feminine accusative singular
   2. masculine accusative plural
2. inflection of sami (“same”):
   1. masculine oblique singular
   2. feminine nominative singular
   3. neuter singular

Noun

sama

1. inflection of sami:
   1. indefinite oblique singular
   2. indefinite accusative plural
   3. indefinite genitive plural

References

• sama in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same”).

Determiner

sama

1. same

Descendants

• Middle Low German: same, sam

Pali

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?? (sama).

Alternative forms

Adjective

sama

1. even, level
2. like, equal, the same
3. impartial

Declension

References

“sama”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.ma/

Adjective

sama

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of sam

Quechua

Noun

sama

1. breath
2. rest

Declension

See also

• samay

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

sama (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (her-)self

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sanskrit ?? (sama, “same, equal”) with semantic change (change in meaning). Related to English same.

Noun

sama

1. act of accompaniment

Derived terms

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

samâ

1. evil; wrongdoing; wickedness

Derived terms

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

samá

1. share (of stocks)

Yuracare

Noun

sama

1. water

References

• ASJP

English

Alternative forms

• sempai

Etymology

Japanese ?? (senpai), from Middle Chinese ? (sen, “first, former”) + ? (bìj, “generation”). Compare Mandarin ?? (xi?nbèi, “elders”). Doublet of sunbae.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?s?mpa?/, /?s?npa?/, [?s?mpa??], [?s?npa??]

Noun

senpai (plural senpais)

1. The senior member of a group in Japanese arts; a mentor.
2. (anime and manga, fandom slang) An upperclassman or elder student.

Usage notes

Use in English may carry humorous or affectionate connotations. This is possibly due to (assumed) reference to modern Japanese media, or possibly a lexical gap.

Antonyms

• kohai

Anagrams

• Espina, Pesina, Sapien, paines, sapien, spinae

Japanese

Romanization

senpai

1. R?maji transcription of ????