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 Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to t ...

, 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 village in Mazandaran Province, Iran *

Sama, South Khorasan Sama ( fa, سمائ, also Romanized as Samā’ and Somā’; also known as Samāh) is a village in Alqurat Rural District, in the Central District of Birjand County, South Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republ ...

, a village in Iran *

Sama (Harstad) Sama is part of the town of Harstad within Harstad Municipality in Troms county, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and north ...

, a part of Harstad city in northern Norway * Sama District, one of ten districts of Tacna province, Peru *

Sama, Asturias Sama ( Bable: Sama de Llangréu) is the second largest parish of the city of Langreo / Llangréu , Asturies, in the north of Spain. It had 12,000 inhabitants. In the past, Sama was an important commercial and mining zone. Notable residents Ar ...

, a parish in the municipality of Langreo in northern Spain

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

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'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the ''Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the Kuruk ...

Businesses

Saudi Central Bank The Saudi Central Bank ( ar, البنك المركزي السعودي), previously known as the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA; ar, link=no, مؤسسة النقد العربي السعودي), established in 1952, is the central bank of ...

, 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 R ...

, a defunct Saudi low-cost airline *

Sama (company) Sama, formerly known as Samasource is a training-data company, focusing on annotating data for artificial intelligence algorithms. The company offers image, video and sensor data annotation and validation for machine learning algorithms in indust ...

, an artificial-intelligence company *

Sama Dubai Sama Dubai ( ar, سما دبي) was an Emirati real estate company noted for its legal troubles, including arrests of senior management, during its brief existence. History Sama Dubai was founded in 2006 as a member company and subsidiary of Du ...

, a property company based in Dubai *

Sama TV Sama TV ( ar, قناة سما الفضائية, lit=Sky) is a television station based in Damascus, Syria since September 7, 2012. Sama TV is a sister channel of defunct Addounia TV. Programs Sama TV features a variety of general-interest program ...

, a television station based in Damascus, Syria

Religion

Sama (Sufism) Sama ( tr, Sema, Persian, Urdu and ar, سَمَاع - ''samā‘un'') 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. "Sam ...

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

Munda people The Munda people are an Austroasiatic speaking ethnic group of India. They predominantly speak the Mundari language as their native language, which belongs to the Munda subgroup of Austroasiatic languages. The Munda are found mainly concentr ...

of India

SAMA

Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan ( fa, سازمان آزادی‌بخش مردم افغانستان, ''Sazman-e Azadibakhsh-e Mardom-e Afghanistan'', SAMA) was a Maoist insurgent group operating in Afghanistan, and based in Pa ...

, 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, Texas, USA. The museum spans 5,000 years of global culture. The museum is housed in the historic former Lone Star Brewery (1886) on the Museum Reach of the San Antonio ...

, an art museum in downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA *

Scottish Alternative Music Awards The Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMAs) is an annual music award based in Glasgow, Scotland. The SAMAs present awards in seven categories to the best emerging artists in Scotland. History The SAMAs were founded in 2009 by music entrepren ...

* 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 muscarinic receptor antagonist (MRA) is a type of anticholinergic agent that blocks the activity of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor. The muscarinic receptor is a protein involved in the transmission of signals through certain parts of the ...

, a group of medicines used in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease *

South African Medical Association The South African Medical Association (SAMA) is a non-statutory, professional association for public- and private-sector medical practitioners in South Africa. Registered as a non-profit organisation it acts as a trade union for its public-secto ...

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 N ...

, an annual award ceremony *

South African Musicians' Alliance The South African Musicians' Alliance (SAMA) is a union, artist collective, and resistance movement formed by musicians in South Africa who opposed the censorship and suppression of the apartheid regime. The alliance was formed sometime before ...

, an artists' collective that resisted the strictures of apartheid *

South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is an area where Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to Earth's surface, dipping down to an altitude of . This leads to an increased flux of energetic particles in this region and exposes orbiti ...

, 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 The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (SAMA) is an art museum with five locations in southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. It is headquartered at Saint Francis University in Loretto, where it was founded in 1976. Other locations were o ...

, 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 membership ...

Other uses

* , various motor ships *

Racing de Sama Racing de Sama, also known as Club Langreano, was a Spanish football club based in the parish of Sama , Langreo, Asturias. Founded in 1915, it held home matches at ''Torre de los Reyes'', with a 1,500 capacity. History Racing de Sama was founded ...

, 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 49 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 The Sama language, ''Sinama'' (''Sama'' + the infix ''-in-''; also known as Bahasa Bajau), is the language of Sama-Bajau people of the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines; Sabah, Malaysia and parts of Indonesia. The Sama are one of the most wide ...

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