گرام

माम grāma, vulg. grām, and H. गरामgarām, or िगराम girām, s.m. A village, a hamlet; an inhabited place in the midst of fields and cultivated land;—a villager, peasant;—(as a suffix) a troop, multitude, a collection or number, a heap;—a number of tunes; a scale in music, a gamut:—grāmādhipati (˚ma+adh˚), or grāmādhikārī, vulg. grām-adhikārī(˚ma+adh˚), s.m. Headman or chief of a village:—grāmāśva (˚ma+aś˚), s.m. (f. -ā), lit.'Village-horse'; a donkey:—grām-bāsī, s.m.=grāma-vāsī, q.v.:—grām-purohit, s.m. A village-priest:—grāmsabhā, s.m. A village court, composed of the principal inhabitants, with the headman presiding; a village corporation:—grām-siṅh, s.m. lit.'Village-lion'; a dog:—grām lenā, v.n. To go through the gamut:—grām-nar, s.m.=grām-vāsī, q.v.:—grāma-ṇī(-ṇī, for -nī), s.m. The leader or chief of a village or community; the lord of the manor;—the leader of a troop or army;—a chief;—a superintendent;—the village barber (as the chief person of a village);—adj. Chief, best, preeminent, excellent;—s.f. A female peasant or villager;—a harlot;—grāma-vās, or grāma-vāsī, adj. & s.m. Living in a village or in villages;—inhabitant of a village, a villager:—grām-yājak, s.m. A village-priest (=grām-purohit).