शिव

Borrowed from Sanskrit शिव (śiva).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ʃɪʋ/
• (mimicking Sanskrit) (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ʃɪ.ʋɑː/, [ʃɪ.ʋäː]

शिव • (śiv) m

1. (Hinduism) Shiva (the destroying and reproducing deity, third god of the Hindu trinity)

According to the Uṇādi-sūtra i, 153, from verbal root शी (śī, “to lie down”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-. Alternatively from श्वि (śvi, “to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-; compare शवस् (śavas, “strength, superiority”), सु-शिश्वि (su-śiśvi, “growing well”); cognate with Greek κύριος (kúrios, “lord”).

An earlier deity, रुद्र (rudra, “Rudra”), was often described with the adjective शिव (śivá, “auspicious”). शिव-रुद्र (śiva-rudra) was eventually shortened to शिव (śiva) in later Sanskrit, the name of the deity worshipped today.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕi.ʋɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɕi.ʋɐ/

शिव • (śivá) stem, m

1. (Hinduism) Shiva (the destroying and reproducing deity, third god of the Hindu trinity)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:शिव

   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata 12.926.19:

     ततो हरो जटी स्थाणुर्देवोऽध्वरपतिः शिवः।
     जगाम शरणं देवो ब्रह्माणं परमेष्ठिनम॥

     tato haro jaṭī sthāṇurdevoʼdhvarapatiḥ śivaḥ.
     jagāma śaraṇaṃ devo brahmāṇaṃ parameṣṭhinama.

2. a second Shiva; especially emancipated; a class of such Brahmans
3. (in the dual) Shiva and his wife
4. a male given name

शिव • (śivá) stem

1. auspicious, favourable

   शिवम् ― śivám ― kindly, tenderly'

   • c. 900 CE – 1500, Śivapuraṇam 4.42.13:

     अन्ये च ये समुत्पन्ना यथानुक्रमतो लयम् ॥
     यांति नैव तथा रुद्रः शिवे रुद्रो विलीयते ॥

     anye ca ye samutpannā yathānukramato layam.
     yāṃti naiva tathā rudraḥ śive rudro vilīyate.

2. happy, fortunate

शिव • (śivá) stem, m or n

1. m happiness, welfare
2. m liberation, final emancipation
3. n welfare, prosperity, bliss

• Monier Williams (1899) “शिव”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1074.