Nama
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Nama may mean:
- Nama bandNama bandNama is a Greek pop/ jazz/new age music group starting their career 1992 with the debut album .Formed by singer Iphigenia and composer Aris Pavlis...
, a Greek music group - Nama (plant)Nama (plant)Nama is a genus of herbaceous plants belonging to the family Boraginaceae. Most are found in North America.-Selected species:-Formerly placed here:*Evolvulus convolvuloides Stearn...
, a genus of plants in the family Hydrophyllaceae - Holy Name (IASTIASTThe International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration is a transliteration scheme that allows a lossless romanization of Indic scripts as employed by the Sanskrit language.-Popularity:...
nāma) in Indian religions - Nama (folklore), a hero in ? folklore who built an ark to save his family from a flood
- Nama (crater), a crater on CallistoCallisto (moon)Callisto named after the Greek mythological figure of Callisto) is a moon of the planet Jupiter. It was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System and the second largest in the Jovian system, after Ganymede. Callisto has about 99% the diameter of the...
, one of the many moons of Jupiter - Nama (department store), one of the department stores in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia
- Nama (Micronesia)Nama (Micronesia)Nama is a village and municipality in the state of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia.-Reference:*, retrieved December 8, 2010...
, an island of the State of Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia - Nama (Chile), an archaeological site
- Nama, India
- Nama, Burkina FasoNama, Burkina FasoNama, Burkina Faso is a village in the Tenkodogo Department of Boulgou Province in south-eastern Burkina Faso. As of 2005, the village has a population of 792.-References:...
- Nama people of Namibia
- Nama languageNama languageThe Khoekhoe language, or Khoekhoegowab, also known by the ethnic term Nàmá and previously the now-discouraged term Hottentot, is the most widespread of the Khoisan languages. It belongs to the Khoe language family, and is spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa by three ethnic groups, the...
, the language spoken by the Nama - Draught beerDraught beerDraught beer is beer served from a cask or a pressurised keg.-History of draught:Until Joseph Bramah patented the beer engine in 1785, beer was served directly from the barrel and carried to the customer. The Old English word for carry was dragen which developed into a series of related words,...
(Nama beer), from the Japanese word nama = fresh or raw - Nama (wine)Nama (wine)Nama is a sweet red wine that is usually used in Greek Orthodox Churches in Holy Communion. It is similar to Mavrodaphne, with the difference that it is sweeter and it contains less alcohol....
, the wine used by the Greek Orthodox in the Divine Liturgy - National Asset Management AgencyNational Asset Management AgencyThe National Asset Management Agency is a body created by the Government of Ireland in late 2009. It is in response to the Irish financial crisis and the deflation of the Irish property bubble....
, an agency created by the Irish government in 2009 in response to the financial crisis.
See also
- Nama bandNama bandNama is a Greek pop/ jazz/new age music group starting their career 1992 with the debut album .Formed by singer Iphigenia and composer Aris Pavlis...
- N%C4%81ma, Pali and Sanskrit for "name"
- Naamam, the identification mark of South Indian Vaishnavites.