Samudra

Samudra (समुद्र) is a Sanskrit term for "ocean", literally the "gathering together of waters" (saṃ- meaning "together" and -udra meaning "water". Dictionary meaning of samudra is ‘confluence’ and ‘ocean/sea’. Modern Indo-Aryan languages word for "ocean" is descended from the term, including Hindi समन्दर and Urdu سمندر samandar, Bengali সমুদ্র shômudrô, Gujarati સમંદર samandar, Marathi and Nepali समुद्र samudra, Punjabi ਸਮੁੰਦਰ samuṃdar, and Sinhalese මුහුද muhuda, and the word has also been borrowed to other languages influenced by Sanskrit, including Kannada ಸಮುದ್ರ samudra, Malayalam സമുദ്രം samudraṁ, Telugu సముద్ర samudra, Burmese သမုဒ္ဒရာ samuddara, Thai สมุทร sàmùt, Khmer សមុទ្រ samout, Lao ມະຫາສະຫມຸດ mahasamud, and Malay samudra.