शिव

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1)  Shiva the destroying and reproducing deity, third god of the Hindu trinity

Etymology
According to the Uṇādi-sūtra i, 153, from verbal root, from. Alternatively from, from ; compare , ; cognate with Greek.

An earlier deity,, was often described with the adjective. was eventually shortened to in later Sanskrit, the name of the deity worshipped today.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Shiva the destroying and reproducing deity, third god of the Hindu trinity
 * 2) a second Shiva; especially emancipated; a class of such Brahmans
 * 3)  Shiva and his wife
 * 1) a second Shiva; especially emancipated; a class of such Brahmans
 * 2)  Shiva and his wife

Adjective

 * 1) auspicious, favourable
 * 2) happy, fortunate
 * 1) happy, fortunate
 * 1) happy, fortunate

Noun

 * 1)  happiness, welfare
 * 2)  liberation, final emancipation
 * 3)  welfare, prosperity, bliss