Hamsa (disambiguation)

Hamsa or Khamsa can refer to:

• Arabic خمسة "five, quintet"
  • Ḫamsa, a Near Eastern symbol often used as a protective amulet
  • a commonly used alternative name for the Panj Ganj or Quinary, i.e. quintet of Nizami's first five great epics
    • Hamsa (literature), in Persian and Turkish literature, a poetic form derived from Nizami's epics
  • Hamsa (musical group) (חמסה), an Israeli musical quintet
  • Hamsa, an international Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies by CIDEHUS at the University of Évora.

• Sanskrit हंस haṃsá
  • the Sanskrit for "swan" or "goose", see Hamsa (bird)
  • a mystical name of the letter h in Sanskrit, see Shiksha
  • A subsidiary Purana in Hinduism
  • a mantra, see Soham (Sanskrit)