Sanskrit

Noun

समर • ‎(sam-ará) m

1. coming together, meeting, concourse, confluence
   • RV 6.9.2b

     नाहं तन्तुं न वि जानाम्योतुं न यं वयन्ति समरेऽतमानाः |

     कस्य सवित पुत्र इह वक्त्वानि परो वदात्यवरेण पित्रा ||

     nāhaṃ tantuṃ na vi jānāmyotuṃ na yaṃ vayanti samare'tamānāḥ |

     kasya svit putra iha vaktvāni paro vadātyavareṇa pitrā ||

     I know not either warp or woof, I know not the web they weave when moving to the contest.

     Whose son shall here speak words that must be spoken without assistance from the Father near him?

2. hostile encounter, conflict, struggle, war, battle with (सह ‎(saha))
3. name of a king of the विद्याधर ‎(vidyā-dhara)
4. name of a king of काम्पिल्य ‎(kāmpilya)
5. name of a brother of king अवन्तिवर्मन् ‎(avantivarman)

Descendants

• Telugu: సమరము ‎(samaramu)

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages सम, र, sama, r
• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1170