شو

िशव śiva, vulg. śiv, and śib, śi`o, śi`u, adj. (f. -ā), Auspicious, propitious, fortunate, lucky, prosperous, happy;—s.m. Name of the third god of the Hindūtriad, the Deity in the character of producer or destroyer, or Time personified; the phallic emblem of Śiva;—an auspicious planetary conjunction; the twentieth of the astronomical periods called yoga; a name of the Veda; final emancipation, beatitude; bliss, happiness, well-being;—a pillar or post to which cattle are tied; a kind of drug and perfume;—water; rock-salt; sea-salt:—śivālay (˚va+al˚), s.m. Śiva's abode'; red basil, Ocymum sanctum;—a temple or shrine dedicated to Śiva; a cemetery, a place where bodies are burnt:—śiv-bhakt, s.m. A worshipper of Śiva:—śiv-pur, s.m. or śiv-purī, s.f. 'Śiva's city,' name of the city of Benares (especially sacred to Śiva):—śiva-priya, adj. & s.m. (f. -ā), Dear to, or esteemed by, Śiva;—the tree Sesbana grandiflora; the thorn-apple; crystal;—the seeds of the rudrāksh:—śivapriyā, s.f. The goddess Durgā:—śhiv-ćara, vulg. śi`u-ćara, s.m. The (blessed) feet of Śiva;—a proper name:—śiva-droh, s.m. The enmity or the malevolence of Śiva:—śiv-dhātu, s.m. 'Śiva's essence,' quicksilver; 'Śiva's mineral,' milk-stone, opal, chalcedony:—śivdhām, s.m. An epithet of Kailās; and of Benares:—śiv-dīn, vulg. śi`u-dīn, adj. Bestowed by Śiva;—a proper name (=Theodore; udā-dād):—śiva-rātri, vulg. śi`u-rātrī, s.f. 'Śiva's night,' name of a celebrated and very popular festival in honour of Śiva or of the birth of the phallus (kept on the 14th of the dark half of the month Māgh (Jan.-Feb.); a rigorous fast and extraordinary ceremonies are observed during the day and night, and Śiva is worshipped under the type of the ling):—śiv-samāj, s.m. An assemblage of the worshippers of Śiva (esp. on Mount Kailās):—śiv-śakar, vulg. si`usakar, s.m. An epithet of Śiva or Mahāde`o; a proper name:—śiv-śail, s.m. 'Siva's mountain,' a name of Mount Kailās:—śiv-ga, s.m. The attendants of Śiva:—śiva-ling, s.m. The phallus or emblem of Śiva:—śiv-nārāya, vulg. si`unārain, s.m. An epithet of Śiva; name of another god; a proper name:—śiv-nārāyaī, s.m. A follower of Śiv-nārāya:—śiv-vānī, s.f. The voice or the words of Śiva.