SOMA


Meaning of SOMA in English

I. ˈsō-mə noun

Etymology: Sanskrit; akin to Avestan haoma, a Zoroastrian ritual drink, Sanskrit sunoti he presses out

Date: 1827

: an intoxicating juice from a plant of disputed identity that was used in ancient India as an offering to the gods and as a drink of immortality by worshippers in Vedic ritual and worshipped in personified form as a Vedic god

II. noun

( plural so·ma·ta ˈsō-mə-tə ; or somas )

Etymology: New Latin somat-, soma, from Greek sōmat-, sōma body

Date: circa 1885

1. : the body of an organism

2. : all of an organism except the germ cells

3. : cell body

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.