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Definitions: Shiva |
ShivaNoun1. (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative; "the family is sitting shiva". 2. The Destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later Hindu pantheon. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Shiva" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be benign", "not harmful". |
Date "shiva" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references) |
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| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SHIVA | English | Studies of the Hydrology, Influence and Variability of the Asian summer monsoon | N/A |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Shiva (also spelt Siva, also called Hara) is a Hindu god. He is the third god of the Trimurti (popularly called the "Hindu trinity"). In the trimurti, Shiva is the destroyer, while Brahma and Vishnu are creator and preserver, respectively. However, even though he represents destruction, he is viewed as a positive force (The Destroyer of Evil), since creation follows on from destruction. Some Hindus believe in a legend that he came from an egg laid by Ammavaru while others say he is anadi (without beginning/birth) and ananth (without end/death). Shivas worshippers are called Shaivaites.
Shiva is the chief god of Shaivism, one of the two main branches of Hinduism today (the other being Vaishnavism). His abode is called Kailasa. His holy mount (called vahana in Sanskrit) is Nandi, the Bull. His attendant is named Bhadra. He is usually represented by a phallus, the Shiva linga (or lingam).
Shiva's consort is Devi, a goddess who comes in many different forms, one of whom is Kali, the goddess of death. Parvati, a more pacific form of Devi is also popular. Shiva also married Sati, daughter of Daksha, who forbade the marriage. Sati disobeyed her father and Daksha held a sacrifice to Vishnu, but did not invite Shiva. In disgust, Sati sacrificed herself in the same fire Daksha used in his sacrifice. Shiva crashed the party, angry at the death of his wife, and killed many of the guests, as well as decapitating Daksha, though he later replaced his head with that of a goat. Shiva created the monster Virabhadra during his quarrel with Daksha.
Shiva gave Parashurama his axe.
Shiva and Parvati are the parents of Karttikeya and Ganesha, the elephant-headed god of wisdom. He acquired his head due to the actions of Shiva, who decapitated him because Ganesha refused to allow him to enter the bath while Parvati was bathing. Shiva had to give him the new head to placate his wife. In another version, Parvati showed the child off to Shiva, whose face burned his head to ashes, which Brahma told Shiva to replace with the first head he could find, an elephant.
According to the foundational myth of Kalism, Kali came into existence when Shiva looked into himself; she is his mirror image. Kali is often depicted standing on top of Shiva's dead and lifeless body. Shiva is shown dead to signify his passiveness in relation to Kali.
As Nataraja, Shiva is the God of Dance.
Hindus believe Shiva to be just one of many different forms of the universal Atman, or Brahman, a monistic entity to which all things, Shiva and everything else, are identical.
Traditionally, unlike Vishnu, Shiva does not have any avatars. However, several persons have been claimed as avatars of him, such as Shankara. Some people consider Hanuman to be an avatar of Shiva.
Nayanars (or Nayanmars), saints from Southern India, were mostly responsible for development of Shiva cult in the Middle Ages.
The important Shaivite cults were Kashmir Shavaites from Northern India, Lingayats and Virasaivas from Southern India. Saiva Siddhanta is a major Shaivite theory developed in Southern India.
This is not complete yet. More details on Shaivite texts/schools needed.
See also Ardhanari
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shiva."
Synonyms: ShivaSynonyms: shibah (n), shivah (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Jupiter | Allah, Bathala, Brahm, Brahma, Brahma, cloud-compeller, Devi, Durga, Kali, oread, the Great Spirit, Ushas; water nymph, wood nymph; Yama, Varuna, Zeus; Vishnu, Siva, Shiva, Krishna, Juggernath, Buddha; Isis, Osiris, Ra; Belus, Bel, Baal, Asteroth; Thor, Odin; Mumbo Jumbo; good genius, tutelary genius; demiurge, familiar; sibyl; fairy, fay; sylph, sylphid; Ariel, peri, nymph, nereid, dryad, seamaid, banshee, benshie, Ormuzd; Oberon, Mab, hamadryad, naiad, mermaid, kelpie, Ondine, nixie, sprite; denizens of the air; pixy; (bad spirit). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Shiva |
| English words defined with "shiva": Hindooism, Hinduism ♦ Saktism, Shaktism, Shivaism, Shivaist, Sivaism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shiva": Bouders ♦ Rachaders ♦ Shiva PAP. (references) |
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Screenplays | I know, Shiva Sandy. (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Dance of Shiva (1968) God Shiva (1955) Shiva Ramoshi (1951) The Dance of Shiva (1998) Shiva (1989) | |
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Human Rights | Nepal | According to the INSEC, 130 civilians have disappeared in police custody since 1996. According to Amnesty International (AI), Shiva Prasad Sharma disappeared after three men, believed to be plainclothes policemen, took him into custody in Nepalgunj, Banke District, on February 24. A habeas corpus petition filed by his relatives was dismissed by the appellate court judge in March on the grounds that police denied arresting him. (references) |
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| "Shiva" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.56% of the time. "Shiva" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 97.56% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Shiva" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be benign", "not harmful". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Shiva." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Shiva | Male | Hindu Mythology | N/A |
| Shiva | Male | Indian | N/A |
| Sib | Male | Indian | Shiva |
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Expression using "shiva": Shiva PAP. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "shiva"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | Sjiva (Siva). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 阿吽 (Aun, Om). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アウン (Aun, Om). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivashay шива (sheva, shibah, siva). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shiva": shivah, shivahs, shivaree, shivareed, shivareeing, shivarees, shivas. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "shiva": yeshiva. (additional references) | |
Words containing "shiva": yeshivah, yeshivahs, yeshivas. (additional references) | |
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"Shiva" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahava, Hiva, Ohiya, Schiavio, Shaida, Shaihah, Shazam, Shiba, Shibam, Shiban, Shifa, Shihab, Shihabi, Shiina, Shikai, Shipa, Shiraa, Shivah, Shivaji, Shivas, Shiyah, Siha, Ushida. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shiva" (pronounced shē"vu) |
| 4 | sh ē" v u | yeshiva. |
| 3 | -ē" v u | diva, Geneva, Viva. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-s-v" | |
-1 letter: shiv, visa. | |
-2 letters: ais, ash, has, his, sha, vas, via, vis. | |
-3 letters: ah, ai, as, ha, hi, is, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-s-v" | |
+1 letter: lavish, ravish, shavie, shivah, shivas, vanish. | |
+2 letters: evanish, haviors, heavies, knavish, mikvahs, mitsvah, shavies, shaving, shivahs, slavish, vahines, vampish, varnish, yeshiva. | |
+3 letters: achieves, adhesive, archives, cavefish, enravish, havartis, haviours, heaviest, lavished, lavisher, lavishes, lavishly, mitsvahs, mitzvahs, moshavim, pahlavis, ravished, ravisher, ravishes, shavings, sheaving, shivaree, shrieval, tovarish, vanished, vanisher, vanishes, vanquish, vaporish, varnishy, viscacha, yeshivah, yeshivas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 68 69 76 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .... .. ...- .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101000 01101001 01110110 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S h i v a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0068 0069 0076 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5374758867 |
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