Samayā

For other uses, see Samaya (disambiguation).

Samaya (Sanskrit: समय, romanized: Samayā, lit. 'Time') or Samayam (Sanskrit: समयम्, romanized: Samayaṃ) is a Sanskrit term referring to the "appointed or proper time, [the] right moment for doing anything." In Indian languages, samayam, or samay in Indo-Aryan languages, is a unit of time.

In contemporary usage, samayam means time in Dravidian languages such as Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil, and samay in Indo-Aryan languages such as Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati.

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