Nāmarūpa | Name and Form

Namarupa

Nāmarūpa (IAST)
Translation: "name and form"

A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy
Sanskrit: नामरूप
Transliteration: Nāmarūpa
Translation: "name and form"
Definition:

1. According to Buddhism, one line of the causal chain of dependent origination. It provides the support for the six fields of contact (Āyatana) and in turn is dependent itself on consciousness (Vijñāna). "Name" is said to be the three groups (sensation, perception, and predisposition); and "form" is the four elements and forms derived from the four elements.
2. In the Upaniṣad(s), the term is used in the sense of determinate forms and names as distinguished from the indeterminate indefinable reality.
3. Advaita Vedānta uses the term to indicate the phenomenally existent (Vyāvahārika) universe.

Reference:

1. Grimes, John (1996). A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy: Sanskrit Terms Defined in English. Albany: State University of New York Press