[sam-ghâtá] masculine (sts. neuter in Epic) blow (rare, Classical (post-Vedic) Sanskrit); closure (of gates, Veda, Vedic); conflict (Veda, Vedic, Classical (post-Vedic) Sanskrit); Classical (post-Vedic) Sanskrit: compression, compactness; close combination, aggregation, collection, com pound, quantity, assemblage, multitude (ordinary meaning); entire undivided compound (opposite its separate parts, grammatical term); intensity, violence (rare); compounded matter, body; poem composed in one and the same metre (rhetorical term); a hell: -vat, adjective close, dense (bamboo thicket); combining closely with (--˚).
Source: Macdonell