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Borrowed from Sanskrit शिव (śiva).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃɪʋ/
• (mimicking Sanskrit) (Delhi) 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”), सुशिश्वि (suśiśvi, “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 Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɕi.ʋɐ/

शिव • (śiva) 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.

   • c. 900 CE – 1500, Śiva Purāṇa 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.

     Other beings and gods who are born get dissolved in due order but not so Rudra. Rudra gets merged in Śiva.

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'

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.