n. [mnāyate abhyaṃsyate namyate arbhidhī- yate artho'nena vā] 1 A name, ap- pellation, personal name (opp. gotra); kiṃ nu nāmaitadasyāḥ Mu. 1. 1; nāma grah ‘to address or call upon by name;’ nāmagrāhamarodītsā Bk. 5. 5; nāma kṛ or dā, nāmnā or nāmataḥ kṛ ‘to give a name, call, name’; cakāra nāmnā raghumātmasaṃbhavaṃ R. 3. 21, 5. 36; tau kuśalavau cakāra kila nāmataḥ 15. 32; caṃdrāpīḍa iti nāma cakre K. 74; mātaraṃ...