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homa

homa is the alternative form of haoma.

Meaning of haoma

Noun

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

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Proper noun capitalized: Homa

Homa (plural Homas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of homa

pluralHomas

Questions about homa

What does homa mean?
Homa means a surname.
What is homa the alternative form of?
Homa is the alternative form of haoma.
What part of speech is homa?
Homa is a proper noun.

Words near homa in the dictionary

  1. hom mali rices
  2. hom-
  3. hom-set
  4. hom-sets
  5. hom.
  6. homa
  7. homacanth
  8. homacodontid
  9. homacodontids
  10. homage
  11. homageable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homa (page history and authors); Homa (page history and authors); haoma (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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