समाहार m. (
-रः)
1. Aggregation, collection, assemblage, either in fact or thought.
2. Contraction, abridgment.
3. Composition or words, (in grammar.)
4. Conjunction of equal words or sentences, the power of the particle “and.”
5. A particular form of composition, a sub-division of the class Dwaṇḍa, in which several words are joined together, and the compound is a term in the neuter gen- der, as
अहिनकुलं the snake and mungoos.
6. The combination of two letters of the alphabet into a syllable, which designates all the letters intermediate between the two of which it consists.
E. सम् together,
आङ् before
हृ to take or convey, and
घञ् aff.