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Sama or Samal is an Austronesian language in the Sulu Archipelago.
Sama is also the Assyrian and Babylonian sun god, see Shamash
Sama (様) is also an honorific suffix used in the Japanese language.
Sama or Sama' (Arabic "listening") refers to Sufi worship practices involving music and dance (see Sufi whirling). In Uyghur culture, this includes a dance form also originally associated with Sufi ritual. See Qawwali#Origins and Origin and History of the Qawwali (http://www.osa.co.uk/qawwali_history.html), Adam Nayyar, Lok Virsa Research Centre, Islamabad, 1988.
SAMA is also the acronym of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the central bank of Saudi Arabia.