Definitions for haoma

haoma hao·ma

Spelling: [hou-muh]
IPA: /ˈhaʊ mə/

Haoma is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in haoma (aahmo).

Definitions for haoma

noun

  1. a leafless vine, Sarcostemma acidum, of eastern India, yielding a sour, milky juice.
  2. Also, homa. Zoroastrianism. a sacramental drink prepared with the juice of the haoma plant, milk, and water. (initial capital letter) a god personifying this sacred drink.

Origin of haoma

1885-90; Avestan; cognate with soma2

Examples for haoma

This haoma, the sacred Vine of the Zoroastrians, produces the primal drink of immortality after which it is named.

The observances connected with the Persian worship of the haoma plant will be dealt with in a later chapter.

The chief features of the fire cult and of the Soma or haoma sacrifice appear in both.

Nor can the plant which the Parsis still import from Persia for the haoma rite be identical with the old soma.

Can the haoma that has been touched with Nasu from a dead dog, or from a dead man, be made clean again?

Used for crushing the haoma, an intoxicating plant, whose juice is used by the faithful.

Praise to thee, haoma; thou knowest the words which are spoken with truth.

Praise to thee, haoma, who by thine own power art a mighty king.

The similarity goes so far that Soma and haoma have even some individual epithets in common.

The haoma and its sacred juice is also called "that which keeps off death," in the ninth chapter of the Yaçna of the Zoroastrians.

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