Sama or SAMA may refer to:

Places

Sama, Burkina Faso Sama is a town in the Kouka Department of Banwa Province in western Burkina Faso. As of 2005 it had a population of 3,853.Sama, China (Sanya), a city in Hainan, China * Sama, Chalus, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran * Sama, Nowshahr, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran * Sama, South Khorasan, a village in Iran * Sama (Harstad), a part of Harstad city in northern Norway * Sama District, one of ten districts of Tacna province, Peru *

Sama, Asturias Sama is the second largest parish of the city of Langreo / Llangréu, Asturies, in the north of Spain. It had 8,500 inhabitants within the urban area and 300 outside of it.The parish and district occupy an area of . In the past, Sama was an impo ...

, a parish in the municipality of Langreo in northern Spain * Sama River, a river in

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

People

Sama-Bajau The Sama-Bajau include several Austronesian ethnic groups of Maritime Southeast Asia. The name collectively refers to related people who usually call themselves the Sama or Samah (formally A'a Sama, "Sama people"); or are known by the exonym ...

, an ethnic group of the Philippines and Malaysia whose members commonly refer to themselves as Sama * Sama (surname), a list of people *

Sam Altman Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and the chief executive officer of OpenAI since 2019 (he was Removal of Sam Altman from OpenAI, briefly dismissed and reinstated in November 2023). He ...

, CEO of

OpenAI OpenAI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) organization founded in December 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines ...

Arts and entertainment

* ''Sama'' (film), a 1988 Tunisian film directed by Néjia Ben Mabrouk * ''Sama'' (Dragana Mirković album), a 2000 studio album by Serbian singer Dragana Mirković * ''Sama'' (Matthew Shipp and Sabir Mateen album), jazz album by Matthew Shipp and Sabir Mateen * "Sama" (song), the Polish entry in the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest, performed by Justyna * Sama, a character of the ''

Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; , , ) is one of the two major Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India revered as Smriti texts in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the events and aftermath of the Kuru ...

Businesses

Saudi Central Bank The Saudi Central Bank (), previously known as the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA; ), established in 1952, is the central bank of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Despite the name change in 2020, the Saudi Central Bank has continued to use t ...

, formerly Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority and still using the acronym SAMA, the central bank of Saudi Arabia *

Sama (airline) Sama LelTayaran Company Limited, operating as Sama, was a Saudi low-cost airline based at King Fahad International Airport in Dammam, operating scheduled flights within Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. The airline's registered address was in ...

, a defunct Saudi low-cost airline * Sama (company), an artificial-intelligence company * Sama Dubai, a property company based in Dubai * Sama TV, a television station based in Damascus, Syria

Religion

Sama (Sufism) Sama (; ) is a Sufi ceremony performed as part of the meditation and prayer practice dhikr. Sama means "listening", while dhikr means "remembrance".During, J., and R. Sellheim. "Sama" Encyclopedia of Islam, Second Edition. Ed. P. Bearman, T. B ...

, form of Sufi ritual ceremony * Sama, the indigenous religion of the

Munda people The Munda people are an Austroasiatic-speaking ethnic group of the Indian subcontinent. They speak Mundari as their native language, which belongs to the Munda subgroup of Austroasiatic languages. The Munda are found mainly concentrated in ...

of India *

Sama Veda The ''Samaveda'' (, , from '' सामन्'', "song" and ''वेद'', "knowledge"), is the Veda of melodies and chants. It is an ancient Vedic Sanskrit text, and is one of the sacred scriptures in Hinduism. One of the four Vedas, it is a l ...

, Veda of melodies and chants in Hinduism

SAMA

Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan (, ''Sazman-e Azadibakhsh-e Mardom-e Afghanistan'', SAMA) was a Maoist insurgent group operating in Afghanistan, and based in Parwan Province. It was the main leftist politico-military organiz ...

, a Maoist insurgent group operating in Afghanistan *

San Antonio Museum of Art The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) is an art museum in Downtown San Antonio, Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA. The museum spans 5,000 years of global culture. The museum is housed in the historic former Lone Star Brewing Company, Lone Star Bre ...

, an art museum in downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA * Scottish Alternative Music Awards * Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, former name of the

, the central bank of Saudi Arabia which still uses the acronym SAMA * Short-acting muscarinic antagonist, a group of medicines used in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease * South African Medical Association *

South African Music Awards The South African Music Awards (often simply the SAMAs) are the Recording Industry of South Africa's music industry awards, established in 1995. The ceremony is held annually, usually in late April or May, with the judging process starting in ...

, an annual award ceremony * South African Musicians' Alliance, an artists' collective that resisted the strictures of apartheid * South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly, an area where the Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to the Earth's surface *

South Australian Mining Association South Australian Mining Association was a no-liability company which established several mines in South Australia, notably the "Grey Wheal", or north mine at Burra, which made a fortune for its promoters, the "Snobs", while the adjacent southern c ...

, a company that in the late 19th century operated one of the world's largest copper mines * Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, an art museum with four locations in southwestern Pennsylvania, United States * Student American Medical Association, a precursor of the

American Medical Student Association The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), founded in 1950 and based in Washington, D.C., is an independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States. AMSA is a student-governed national organization. They have a membershi ...

Other uses

* , various motor ships *

Racing de Sama Racing de Sama, also known as Club Langreano, was a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club based in the parish of Sama, Asturias, Sama, Langreo, Asturias. Founded in 1915, it held home matches at ''Torre de los Reyes'', with a 1,50 ...

, a Spanish football club based in the parish of Sama, Langreo, Asturias * Sama Beirut, an upcoming residential, commercial and office tower in the Sodeco region of Beirut, Lebanon *

Sama Tower The Sama Tower (also known as Al Durrah Tower or Al Durrah Tower II) is a skyscraper along Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The tower has 51 floors. Construction began in 2006 and was completed in late 2009. History The buildi ...

, a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates * '' -sama'' (様), a Japanese honorific suffix *

Sama language Sama or SAMA may refer to: Places * Sama, Burkina Faso, a town in the Kouka Department, Banwa Province, Burkina Faso * Sama, China (Sanya), a city in Hainan, China * Sama, Chalus, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran * Sama, Nowshahr, a vi ...

, the language of the Sama people of Southeast Asia * Sama language (Angola), a Bantu language of Angola