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Definition: Ganesh |
GaneshNoun1. God of wisdom or prophesy; remover of obstacles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Ganesh" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a lord of hordes". |
Synonyms: GaneshSynonyms: Ganapati (n), Ganesa (n), Ganesha (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ganesh is one of the most respected Hindu deities. He is also one of the most easily recognised with his elephant head. He is the son of Shiva "the destroyer", one of the Hindu 'Trinity', and Parvati, his consort.
There are several traditions as to how Ganesh's elephant head came into being. One of the traditions tells of Shiva inadvertently killing a doughboy who had blocked his path into his own home. In remorse at having killed the doughboy, he took up the body but was unable to find the head, and so replaced it with a convenient head of an elephant that he had lopped off a few minutes earlier.
Another tradition tells of Shiva returning home after many years away on a hunting trip, and finding his (now grown-up) son in bed with Parvati. In a rage, believing that Parvati had taken a lover, he cut Ganesh's head off, and had to replace it with the head of the first animal that he saw - which was an elephant. A variant on this story suggests that Parvati requested Ganesh to guard her bathroom while she washed herself - and when Shiva returned, Ganesh did not recognise him, and again in anger Shiva cut off his head.
Ganesh is a very popular God, especially in his home city of Mumbai. He is the God of luck and fortune, of doorways, of the household, and of writing. He is also the remover of obstacles, and as such it is normal to worship Ganesh before any other Hindu God.
Ganesh is also known by other names in South India - such as Vinayaka and Aiyyapa.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ganesh."
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Movie/TV Titles | Shri Ganesh Janma (1951) Ganesh Utsav (1925) | |
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| "Ganesh" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Ganesh" is used about 9 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) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Ganesh" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Ganesh | Last name | 130 | 63,936 |
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| "Ganesh" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a lord of hordes". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Ganesh." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Ganesh | Male | Hindu Mythology | N/A |
| Ganesh | Male | Indian | N/A |
| Ganesha | Male | Indian | Ganesh |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ganesh | 441 |
lord ganesh | 51 |
ganesh picture | 27 |
god ganesh | 22 |
ganesh wallpaper | 19 |
ganesh statue | 13 |
ganesh lord wallpaper | 13 |
picture of lord ganesh | 9 |
ganesh pic | 9 |
ganesh mantra | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "ganesh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | aneshgay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-n-s" | |
-1 letter: ashen, gnash, hangs, hanse, sangh. | |
-2 letters: ages, anes, engs, gaen, gaes, gane, gash, gens, haen, haes, hags, hang, hens, nags, sage, sane, sang, shag, shea, snag. | |
-3 letters: age, ane, ash, eng, ens, gae, gan, gas, gen, hae, hag, has, hen, hes, nae, nag, nah, sae, sag, sea, seg, sen, sha, she. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, ah, an, as, eh, en, es, ha, he, na, ne, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-n-s" | |
+1 letter: changes, gnashed, gnashes, hangers, rehangs, shebang, stengah. | |
+2 letters: changers, deashing, gahnites, ganaches, halogens, hangnest, headings, healings, hearings, hearsing, hexagons, hogmanes, leashing, shagreen, sheafing, shealing, shearing, sheaving, shebangs, stengahs, thanages, thenages, whangees. | |
+3 letters: angelfish, anguished, anguishes, ashlering, athelings, beshaming, chantages, chasseing, cheongsam, encashing, enchasing, exchanges, garnished, garnishee, garnishes, gnathites, hangfires, hangnests, hangovers, hanseling, harangues, hastening, heptagons, hogmenays, hyalogens, ingathers, kashering, longheads, naethings, narghiles, nargilehs, overhangs, pathogens, phalanges, pharynges, rechanges, rehashing, reshaping, reshaving, rewashing, searching, shagreens, shaveling, shealings, shearings, shearling, sheathing, shogunate, shrinkage, stagehand, teachings, uncharges. | |
+4 letters: alongshore, anchorages, anglerfish, archangels, beheadings, breathings, bushranger, cashiering, chalcogens, challenges, champagnes, changeless, chastening, cheongsams, earthlings, enswathing, escheating, evanishing, exchangers, exhausting, garishness, garnisheed, garnishees, gatherings, gaucheness, gazehounds, gonorrheas, greenheads, greenshank, gynarchies, habergeons, halogenous, halogetons, handseling, hanselling, happenings, haranguers, harbingers, hardenings, harnessing, harshening, harvesting, headspring, headstrong, hesitating, hoarsening, hydrangeas, languished, languisher, languishes, lengthways, mahoganies, megaphones, mishearing, naughtiest, nightmares, nightshade, orphanages, phalangers, preshaping, prewashing, rehearings, rehearsing, rephrasing, ringhalses, saganashes, shagginess, shaggymane, shanghaied, shanghaier, sharpening, shattering, shavelings, shearlings, sheathings, shenanigan, shogunates, shrinkages, slathering, springhead, stagehands, straighten, subheading, unleashing, vinegarish. | |
+5 letters: alightments, anemographs, angelfishes, anthologies, beshadowing, blaspheming, bushrangers, carragheens, challengers, changelings, changeovers, chargehands, charmingest, despatching, dragonheads, draughtsmen, empathising, emphasising, emphasizing, enravishing, ensheathing, featherings, gangsterish, garnishment, gawkishness, gearchanges, generalship, ghastliness, gramophones, granophyres, graphicness, greenhearts, greenshanks, haggardness, halogenates, handselling, hatemongers, haughtiness, headsprings, heartstring, hemangiomas, highlanders, homemakings, homogenates, hydrogenase, insheathing, languishers, lightplanes, managership, mastheading, misbehaving, misteaching, monophagies, naughtiness, nearsighted, nightshades, phanerogams, prehearings, researching, scenography, searchingly, semaphoring, shaggymanes, shanghaiers, shellacking, shenanigans, shivareeing, shortchange, sonographer, spaghettini, springheads, stenography, straightens, straphanger, subheadings, theologians, ungarnished, unsheathing, waggishness, warehousing, wavelengths, weatherings, wharfingers, wholesaling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6E 65 73 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -. . ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a n e s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006E 0065 0073 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416780718574 |
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