samaya

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit समय (samaya).

Noun

samaya

1. agreement, promise
2. meeting
3. time, season
4. convention, law, practice, doctrine

Derived terms

• anamaya
• anamayani
• asamaya
• asasamayan
• panamaya
• pasamaya
• pasamayan
• sinamaya
• sinamayan
• sinamayākĕn

 

• tali samaya

 

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦱꦼꦩꦪ (semaya, “to postpone, to delay”)
  • → Indonesian: sêmaya (“to postpone, to delay”)
• → Balinese: ᬲᬵᬫᬬ (semaya, “agreement, alliance, fate”)
• → Tagalog: samaya (“accomplice in intrigue”)

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀲𑀫𑀬 (Brahmi script)
• समय (Devanagari script)
• সময (Bengali script)
• සමය (Sinhalese script)
• သမယ (Burmese script)
• สมย or สะมะยะ (Thai script)
• ᩈᨾᨿ (Tai Tham script)
• ສມຍ or ສະມະຍະ or ສະມະຢະ (Lao script)
• សមយ (Khmer script)
• 𑄥𑄟𑄠 (Chakma script)

Noun

samaya m

1. time, occasion
   • 2006, The First Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Dīgha-Nikāya (I)‎^[1], page 2:

     එකං සමයං භගවා අන‍්තරා ච රාජගහං අන‍්තරා ච නාළන්‍දං අද‍්ධානමග‍්ගප‍්පටිපන‍්නො හොති මහතා භික‍්ඛුසඞ‍්ඝෙන සද‍්ධිං පඤ‍්චමත‍්තෙහි භික‍්ඛුසතෙහි.

     ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā antarā ca rājagahaṃ antarā ca nāḷandaṃ addhānamaggappaṭipanno hoti mahatā bhikkhusaṅghena saddhiṃ pañcamattehi bhikkhusatehi.

     The Blessed One was once going along the high road between Rājaɡaha and Nālandā with a ɡreat company of the brethren, with about five hundred brethren.

Declension

Declension table of "samaya" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	samayo	samayā
Accusative (second)	samayaṃ	samaye
Instrumental (third)	samayena	samayehi or samayebhi
Dative (fourth)	samayassa or samayāya or samayatthaṃ	samayānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	samayasmā or samayamhā or samayā	samayehi or samayebhi
Genitive (sixth)	samayassa	samayānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	samayasmiṃ or samayamhi or samaye	samayesu
Vocative (calling)	samaya	samayā

Descendants

• → Burmese: သမယ (sa.ma.ya.)

References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “samaya”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Javanese samaya (“coming together; mutual understanding”), from Sanskrit समय (samaya). See also maya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /samaˈjaʔ/, [sɐ.mɐˈjaʔ]
• Hyphenation: sa‧ma‧ya

Noun

samayâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜋᜌ)

1. accomplice in intrigue

   Synonyms: kaintriga, kasabwat, kasapakat, katikma, katuon

References

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 209
• Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1887) El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog‎^[2] (in Spanish), Paris: Imprimerie de la Faculté de Médecine, A. Davy, page 48
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[3] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

Further reading

• “samaya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018