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kamas

kamas is the plural of kama.

Meaning of kama

Noun (1)

kama (plural kama)

  1. A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.

Noun (2)

kama (uncountable)

  1. (Hinduism) The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.
    • The place of kāma or the pursuit of love and pleasure in the balanced Hindu scheme of life derives from the importance attached to the life of the married householder (grhastha).1958, V. Raghavan, “Chapter XII: Kāma, The Third End of Man”, in Stephen N Hay, William Theodore De Bary, editors, Sources of Indian Tradition, volume 2, page 258

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Noun capitalized: Kamas

Kamas (plural Kamas)

  1. A member of a people who live in the northwest of Siberia.

Proper noun capitalized: Kamas

Kamas

  1. The Samoyedic language spoken by these people.
  2. A city in Utah.

Forms of kamas

pluralKamas

Origin of kamas

From Russian Камасинцы (Kamasincy), Камашинцы (Kamašincy), from Kamassian кхаӈмажә (kʰaŋmažə).

Questions about kamas

What does kamas mean?
Kamas means a member of a people who live in the northwest of Siberia.
What is kamas the plural of?
Kamas is the plural of kama.
What part of speech is kamas?
Kamas can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of kamas?
The plural of kamas is Kamas.

Words near kamas in the dictionary

  1. Kamarooka
  2. Kamarooka North
  3. Kamaru
  4. Kamarupa
  5. Kamarupan
  6. kamas
  7. Kamasin
  8. Kamasins
  9. Kamassian
  10. Kamassin
  11. Kamasutra

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kamas (page history and authors); Kamas (page history and authors); kama (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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