different between samara vs samsara

English

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin samara (“elm seed”), from Gaulish [Term?].

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sæm?r?/, /s??m?r?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sæm?r?/, /s??m??r?/

Noun

samara (plural samaras or samarae)

1. The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.

   Synonyms: helicopter, polynose, whirligig, whirlybird

Translations

Anagrams

• Asmara, asrama

Balinese

Romanization

samara

1. Romanization of ???

Italian

Etymology

From Latin samara, from Gaulish.

Noun

samara f (plural samare)

1. (of botany) samara

   winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple

Latin

Etymology

From Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *samos (“summer”).

Noun

samara f (genitive samarae); first declension

1. (of botany) samara

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• samara in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• samara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• samara in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• samara in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

English

Alternative forms

• sa?s?ra

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ????? (sa?s?ra).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?m?s???/

Noun

samsara (countable and uncountable, plural samsaras)

1. (philosophy, religion) In Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment.
   • 1957, S. Radhakrishnan and C. A. Moore (eds.), A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy, Princeton Univ. Press, page 38:

     Until we are released from the law of karma and reach moksha or deliverance, we will be in samsara or the time process.

Translations

See also

• reincarnation
• metempsychosis
• transmigration

References

• The Upanishads, abridged, translated and edited by Swami Nikhilananda, Harper Torchbooks, 1963, page 379.

Further reading

• samsara at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• asramas, assamar, samaras

Polish

Alternative forms

• sansara

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ????? (sa?s?ra).

Noun

samsara f

1. (philosophy, religion) samsara

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ????? (sa?s?ra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sams?ra/
• Hyphenation: sam?sa?ra

Noun

samsàra f (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. (uncountable) samsara

Declension