[Sanskrit]
bráhman
1. [Veda]: the sacred or inspired word, expression of the heart or soul; heart; the Vedic word or mantra in its profoundest aspect as the expression of the intuition arising out of the depths of the soul or being; the Soul that emerges out of the subconscient in Man and rises towards the superconscient and also word of creative Power welling upward out of the soul.
2. [Vedanta]: the Reality; the Eternal; the Absolute; the Spirit; the Supreme Being; the One besides whom there is nothing else existent; in relation to the universe [cf. átman] the Supreme is brahman, the one Reality which is not only the spiritual, material and conscious substance of all the ideas and forces and forms of the universe, but their origin, support and possessor, the cosmic and supracosmic Spirit.
Nom.m. < brahman
Bráhma
[Observe that masculinr gender is used for personal Deity or Power, when neuter gender used for Impersonal Absolute (Nom. n - brahma)]
[Veda]: 1. the Power of the Divine, which creates the worlds by the Word; 2. the priest of the Word.
3. [Later]: the creative Deity [one of the trimurti]; the Eternal's personality of existence.
[Brahma is the nominative; the uninflected form of the word is brahman; it differs from brahman "the Eternal" only in gender].
Nom.m. < brahman
bráhma
[Nominative neuter gender. Observe that neuter gender is used for Impersonal Absolute, when masculinr gender - for personal Deity or Power (Nom. m - brahmā)]
Instr.sg.n.
bráhmana
[instrumental], by the hymn.
bráhmani
[locative], into the brahman, cf. Brahma