māsa | मास | mAsa
mā/sa | मा/स | m. (or n., Siddh.) the moon (see pūrṛa-m˚ | पूरृअ-म्˚ |)
a month or the 12th part of the Hindū year (there are 4 kinds of months, viz. the solar, sOra | स्Oर |; the natural, sāvana | सावन |; the stellar, nākśatra | नाक्शत्र |, and the lunar, cāndra | चान्द्र |; the latter, which is the most usual and consists of 30 Tithis, being itself of two kinds as reckoned from the new or full moon, cf. IW. 179; for the names of the months see ib. 173 n. 3), RV. &c. &c. (māsam | मासम् |, for a month; māsam ekam | मासम् एकम् |, for one month; māsena | मासेन |, in the course of a month; māse | मासे |, in a m˚ = after the lapse of a m˚)
a symbolical N. for the number ‘twelve’, Sūryas.
a month or the 12th part of the Hindū year (there are 4 kinds of months, viz. the solar, sOra | स्Oर |; the natural, sāvana | सावन |; the stellar, nākśatra | नाक्शत्र |, and the lunar, cāndra | चान्द्र |; the latter, which is the most usual and consists of 30 Tithis, being itself of two kinds as reckoned from the new or full moon, cf. IW. 179; for the names of the months see ib. 173 n. 3), RV. &c. &c. (māsam | मासम् |, for a month; māsam ekam | मासम् एकम् |, for one month; māsena | मासेन |, in the course of a month; māse | मासे |, in a m˚ = after the lapse of a m˚)
a symbolical N. for the number ‘twelve’, Sūryas.