Soma

Definition: Soma

Soma

Noun

1. Leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink.

2. Personification of a sacred intoxicating drink used in Vedic ritual.

3. Alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak".

Domain	Definition
Health	The body as distinct from the mind; all the body tissue except the germ cells; all the axial body. (references)
Literature	Soma The moon, born from the eyes of Atri, son of Brahma; made the sovereign of plants and planets. Soma ran away with Tara (Star), wife of Vrihaspata, preceptor of the gods, and Buddha was their offspring. (Hindu mythology.) To drink the Soma. To become immortal. In the Vedic hymns the Soma is the moon-plant, the juice of which confers immortality, and exhilarates even the gods. It is said to be brought down from heaven by a falcon. (Scandinavian mythology.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Soma, mentioned within Vedic scriptures, was apparently a drink, probably created with a hallucinogenic mountain plant; Soma is seen as sacred, as a deva. What Soma actually was, is not known; modern Soma is a non-intoxicating drink, consisting of rhubarb. The Rig-Veda (8.48) states, "We have drunk the Soma; we have become immortal; we have gone to the light; we have found the gods."

The plant, itself, is personified as a god. The god is the plant and the drink; there is no difference. The plant is the god and the drink is the god and the plant is the drink -- they are all three the same. Soma was an inspiration for poets. It was a lunar deity, and the underworld. Soma was is depicted as a bull or bird, and sometimes as an embryo, but rarely as an adult human.

The Ninth Mandala Soma Mandala of the Rig Veda consists largely of hymns to Soma.

Soma is similar to ambrosia; it is what the gods drink, and what made them deities. Indra and Agni are known for drinking massive amounts of Soma. Mortals also drink it; it gave them hallucinations. The plant may be Ephedra vulgaris. R Gordon Wasson and many other researchers believe that Soma may be the mushroom amanita muscaria. The Persians had a similar drink called Haoma. In both Persia and India, the Soma/Haoma making rituals died out when the early Aryan forms of these religions were reformed by Zoroaster and by later Brahminical practice.

The moon is the cup from which the gods drink Soma, and so Soma became identified with the lunar deity Chandra. A waxing moon meant Soma was recreating himself, ready to be drunk again. Alternatively, Soma's twenty-seven wives were daughters of Daksha, who felt he paid too much attention to just one of his wives, Rohini. He cursed him to wither and die, but the wives intervened and the death became periodic and temporary, and is symbolized by the waxing and waning of the moon.

Soma kidnapped Tara, wife of Brihaspati. This began a war, and Brahma eventually forced Soma to let her go. She gave birth to his son, Budha.

The drink Soma was kept and distributed by the Gandharvas.

Haoma

Haoma is the ancient Iranian (Persian) form of the word 'soma', the intoxicating and invigorating drink of the gods which was central to early Aryan religious ritual. The making of soma/haoma from a plant is described in detail in the Rigveda, and is recorded in early Iranian texts. The identity of the plant is not known for certain.

The reforms of the prophet Zoroaster rejected the making of Haoma on moral grounds.

Soma and Psychiatry in Huxley

The term "Soma" was used in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World (1932) in which it describes a drug. This is an 'opium of the people' that replaces religion in an oppressive futuristic science-based society. Soma is a pill consumed as an anti-depressant by workers who lead emotionally repressed and regimented lives. The use of the term satirically refers to the revived interest in ancient Aryan culture at the time. Huxley's society is caste based, like that of Brahminical India.

Huxley's soma was taken by the Anti-psychiatry movement in the 1960s as a model for their claim that anti-depressants and other drugs functioned to emotionally control people whose distress and mental illness arose from the oppressive nature of modern society.

"Soma" in the marketplace

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Soma, Fukushima is a city of Japan.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SOMA	English	System Open Market Account	Finance
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Soma

Synonyms: anatomy (n), bod (n), build (n), chassis (n), figure (n), flesh (n), form (n), frame (n), haoma (n), human body (n), material body (n), physical body (n), physique (n), shape (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Soma

Specialty definitions using "soma": Pyramidal Cells ♦ Sumpter Horse. (references)

Etymologies containing "soma": Thecosomata. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Soma" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Finnish (cute, dainty, neat, nice, pretty, sweet), French (soma), Italian (load, pack), Portuguese (addition, amount, body, count, entirety, number, quantity, soma, sum, summation, tot, total), Romanian (challenge, lie off, summon).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Diamantia sto gymno sou soma (1972) Argento Soma (2000)
Song Titles	My Religion (performing artist: Soma)
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Domain	Title
Books	From Psyche to Soma and Back (reference) Soma Basics Furniture (Soma Basics) (reference) Soma in Biblical Theology (reference) The Alchemy of Healing: Psyche and Soma (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Soma Magazine (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Soma Holiday (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Soma" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 51.85% of the time. "Soma" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	51.85%	14	93,893
Noun (proper)	44.44%	12	101,599
Unclassified Items	3.7%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	27	N/A

Expression using "soma": Soma Compound. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "soma": Soma-ugt.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "soma"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏الجسد. (various references)

Danish		soma (body), legeme (body). (various references)

Dutch		soma (body). (various references)

French		soma. (various references)

German		Soma (body). (various references)

Hungarian		test (body, corpus, frame, hull, mortal clay, shell, torso), részegítő növényi nedv. (various references)

Italian		soma (load, pack). (various references)

Pig Latin		omasay

Portuguese		soma (addition, amount, count, entirety, number, quantity, sum, summation, tot, total). (various references)

Russian		сома (somata). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "soma": somas, somata, somatic, somatically, somatological, somatologies, somatology, somatomedin, somatomedins, somatopleure, somatopleures, somatosensory, somatostatin, somatostatins, somatotrophin, somatotrophins, somatotropin, somatotropins, somatotype, somatotypes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "soma": prosoma. (additional references)
	Words containing "soma": acrosomal, autosomal, autosomally, chromosomal, chromosomally, desmosomal, dipsomania, dipsomaniac, dipsomaniacal, dipsomaniacs, dipsomanias, episomal, episomally, extrachromosomal, interchromosomal, liposomal, lysosomal, metasomatic, metasomatism, metasomatisms, microsomal, nonchromosomal, nucleosomal, peroxisomal, polyribosomal, prosomal, prosomas, prosomata, psychosomatic, psychosomatically, psychosomatics, ribosomal, sarcosomal, schistosomal, synaptosomal. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Soma" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aoma, Asoma, Esema, Esma, esome, Koma, Msomi, Osamah, Osha, Osmc, osmo, osom, osome, Osumi, Samad, Samah, samma, sanma, saome, scoma, Semaf, shoma, Sima, Simca, sinma, Sixma, sma, S'me, smmap, smo, smoak, smoat, smoo, smsa, soa, soaq, soca, soea, som, soman, somar, somat, somaz, somba, someo, somga, somi, somit, Somlak, somp, soms, somy, sona, sonae, sonax, sonma, sooa, soom, sopa, sota, soume, sova, soxa, soza, suam, suka, suma, sumar, sumu, Sumyaa, svoja, zoam, zome. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "soma" (pronounced sō"mu)
3	-ō" m u	aroma, carcinoma, coma, diploma, douma, glaucoma, lymphoma, melanoma, mesothelioma, papilloma, retinoblastoma, stroma.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: moas.
	Words within the letters "a-m-o-s"
	-1 letter: mas, moa, mos, oms, som.
	-2 letters: am, as, ma, mo, om, os, so.
	Words containing the letters "a-m-o-s"
	+1 letter: ambos, ammos, amoks, atoms, comas, foams, loams, makos, manos, mason, mayos, moans, moats, molas, monas, moras, moxas, nomas, ogams, omasa, roams, sambo, somas, stoma.
	+2 letters: abmhos, abohms, abomas, alamos, almost, amigos, amnios, amoles, amours, armors, aromas, awmous, axioms, cameos, campos, caroms, commas, damson, dogmas, dolmas, doumas, famous, forams, gloams, hansom, imagos, jorams, machos, macons, macros, magots, mahoes, majors, mambos, mangos, manors, mascon, mascot, masons, matzos, mayors, miaous, miaows, mimosa, mochas, molars, mommas, monads, moolas, morals, morass, morays, mosaic, moshav, mucosa, myomas, nomads, oakums, oghams, omasum, omegas, orgasm, ramose, ramous, ramson, ransom, romans, salmon, sambos, samosa, shalom, shamos, shamoy, slalom, smalto, socman, somata, stomal, stomas, stroma, tomans, vamose, womans.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 6D 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01101101 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 006D 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
soma	1,894	myth soma	29
buy soma	144	soma medication	27
online soma	126	watson soma	27
akane soma	108	prescription of soma	26
buy soma online	106	seed soma	24
aura soma	80	network soma	23
cheap soma	50	soma side effects	21
soma drug	48	soma cube	20
argento soma	45	mexico soma	17
order soma online	43	soma compound	17
diego san soma	41	soma pill	16
carisoprodol order soma	41	online prescription soma	15
order soma	40	soma pharmacy	13
purchase soma	39	soma muscle relaxer	13
buy cheap soma	37	magazine soma	12
in soma usa	35	fm soma	11
soma home	31	generic soma	11
purchase soma online	30	soma addiction	10
buy cheap soma online	29	information on soma	10
search soma online	29	lab soma	9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Soma

Definition: Soma

Soma

Noun

Specialty Definition: Soma

Specialty Definition: Soma

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SOMA

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Rhyming with "Soma"

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