Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Kama

Kama (ka"ma) , noun

[Sanskrit kāma love, the god of love.]

1.
The Hindu Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.

supposed to create the ka"ma ru"pa (ropȧ) [Sanskrit rūpa shape, image], a kind of simulacrum or astral likeness of a man which exists after his death in an invisible plane of being, called ka"ma lo"ca (lō"kȧ) [Sanskrit lōka space, world], until the impulses which created it are exhausted and it finally fades away.

2.
Desire; animal passion;