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haoma

haoma noun: a plant associated with the divinity Haoma.

Noun (1)

haoma (uncountable)

  1. A plant associated with the divinity Haoma.
    • The offering of haoma was a common practice among Achaemenids; the Haumavarga Scythians probably owe their name to the fact that they did not press the plant but strewed it ritually (HOFFMANN 1975).1999, Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter Willem van der Horst, Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible: DDD, page 384

Noun (2) capitalized: Haoma

Haoma (uncountable)

  1. Hypostatic divinity of the haoma plant.
    • Quickly spake Zarathustra: praise to the Haoma, the created by Mazda! Good is Haoma, the created by Mazda! Praise to the Haoma!1864, Arthur Henry Bleeck, Friedrich Spiegel, Avesta: The Religious Books of the Parsees, Yasna 9.23, page 61
    • Even today Zoroastrian women who are with child pray to Hoama and constantly recite the Hōm Yasht in order to have distinguished sons.1993, W.B. Fischer, Ilya Gershevitch, Ehsan Yarshster, The Cambridge History of Iran, page 653

haoma meaning in Gujarati and Persian

haoma in Gujarati

Haoma
હોમ hom

haoma in Persian

Haoma
هوم hum

Forms of haoma

alternative formhom
alternative formhoma

Origin of haoma

Transliteration of Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀 (haoma). Doublet of soma.

Transliteration of Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀 (haoma). Doublet of Soma.

Words formed from haoma

Questions about haoma

What does haoma mean?
Haoma means a plant associated with the divinity Haoma.
What is haoma in Gujarati?
Haoma in Gujarati is હોમ (hom). See Haoma meaning in Gujarati.
What part of speech is haoma?
Haoma is a noun.

Words near haoma in the dictionary

  1. Haobijam
  2. Haojing
  3. haole
  4. haole time
  5. haoles
  6. haoma
  7. haomas
  8. haor
  9. Haora
  10. Haoreima
  11. haori

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haoma (page history and authors); Haoma (page history and authors); હોમ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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