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शम्य (zamya)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
शम्य a
mfn.
 to be appeased or kept quiet
&c.
 ,
MW.
=
 रूक्ष,
TS.
 , Sch.
शम्य
m.
 a partic. personification,
SāmavBr.
शम्य b. शम्या
&c.
 See
p.
 1054, col. 2.
Monier Williams 1872
English
शम्य, अस्, आ, अम्, to be appeased, to be kept
quiet, &c.
(आ), f. a wooden stick or post (as quiet-
ing or making firm)
a staff
the pin of a yoke
a kind of cymbal or other musical instrument held
in the right hand (= ताल-विशेष)
a sacrificial
vessel.
—शम्या-पात, अस्, m. the cast of a stick, i. e.
the distance that a stick can be thrown.
—शम्या-
मात्र, अस्, ई, अम्, Ved. having the measure of a
Śamyā, as large as the pin of a yoke.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
śamya, or (in LV always written) sa° (= Pali samma, here m.
for Skt. see below), a kind of cymbal, always in LV and often in Pali in cpd. with tāḍa (tāḷa), which usually follows but in LV 〔301.16〕 precedes this (PTSD wrongly makes sammatāḷa the n. of a single instrument
Pali comms., e.g. Jāt. 〔vi.61.7—8〕, make it a dvandva, and samma occurs alone in Pali)
Skt. has only śamyā(-tāla, e.g. Mbh. Cr. ed. 〔2.4.31〕), which is known in BHS only in Mvy 〔5018〕
in Skt. often and in LV always, acc. to Lefm., written with p for y, but (cf. pw 〔6.208〕) Pali proves that y is right, p a graphic corruption
prob. identical with Skt. śamyā, wedge, from the shape of the instrument
the m. (or nt.) stem in -a is not recorded in Skt. but is the only one recorded in Pali as n. of a mus. instrument, and so (except for Mvy) in BHS
in LV only stem-form recorded in long dvandva cpds. of names of mus. instruments: LV 〔40.20〕
〔163.6〕 (here Calc. samya)
〔206.14〕
〔212.4〕 (here °tāḍāvacara-)
-tāḍa-sampādīṃś ca (no v.l.) 〔301.16〕.