होम

होम (homa)

1. Devanagari script form of homa, which is present/imperative active first-person plural of होति (hoti, “to be”)

• होमन् (hóman) — Rigvedic

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *źʰáwmas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰáwmas, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéw-mo-s, from *ǵʰew- (“to pour”). Cognate with Ancient Greek χεῦμᾰ (kheûma, “that which is poured”), χέω (khéō), Phrygian ζευμάν (zeumán). By surface analysis, हु (hu, “to offer, sacrifice”, root) +‎ -म (-ma).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɦɐ́w.mɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɦoː.mɐ/

होम • (hóma) stem, m (root हु)

1. the act of making oblations to the gods; a Vedic ritual
2. oblation

• होतृ (hótṛ, “a sacrificial priest”)
• जुहोति (juhóti)
• हुत (hutá)

• → Tamil: ஹோமம் (hōmam), → ஓமம் (ōmam)

• Monier Williams (1899) “होम”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1306, column 1.