BRAHMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brahma mean? 

• BRAHMA (noun)
  The noun BRAHMA has 2 senses:

1. the Creator; one of the three major deities in the later Hindu pantheon

2. any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding

  Familiarity information: BRAHMA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAHMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Creator; one of the three major deities in the later Hindu pantheon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Hindu deity (a deity worshipped by the Hindus)

Holonyms ("Brahma" is a member of...):

Trimurti (the triad of divinities of later Hinduism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bos indicus; Brahma; Brahman; Brahmin

Hypernyms ("Brahma" is a kind of...):

bovine (any of various members of the genus Bos)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Brahma"):

zebu (domesticated ox having a humped back and long horns and a large dewlap; used chiefly as a draft animal in India and east Asia)

Holonyms ("Brahma" is a member of...):

Bos; genus Bos (wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini)

 Context examples 

The Drosophila gene brahma (brm) encodes a non-specific RNA polymerase II transcription co-activator, assisting one or more transcriptional activators of ANT-C and BX-C homeotic genes.

(BRAHMA, NCI Thesaurus)

Teachers, you must watch her: keep your eyes on her movements, weigh well her words, scrutinise her actions, punish her body to save her soul: if, indeed, such salvation be possible, for (my tongue falters while I tell it) this girl, this child, the native of a Christian land, worse than many a little heathen who says its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut—this girl is—a liar!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)