• (America) enPR: kämə, IPA: /kɑmə/

From Japanese 鎌.

kama (plural kama)

1. A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.

From Sanskrit काम.

kama (uncountable)

1. (Hinduism) The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.
   • 2006, “Indian Erotology”, in Alan Soble, editor, Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, Volume 1: A-L, page 493 ↗:

     Ancient Indian thought divides the principal aims of human existence into dharma (religion, morality, social obligations), artha (economics, politics, power), and kāma (erotic pleasure, sexual interaction, sexual gratification).

From Russian Ка́ма.

1. A major river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga.

• French: Kama
• German: Kama
• Russian: Ка́ма

From Sanskrit काम.

1. (religion, Hinduism) The Hindu god of love, Kamadeva

   Synonyms: Kamadeva

• Kamasutra

Various origins:

• Borrowed from Hindi काम, a typical surname of Andhra Pradesh.
• Borrowed from Polish Kama, a surname of unexplained origin.
• Borrowed from Turkish Kama, a metonymic occupational surname from kama ("wedge").

1. Surname.