सिंह

⇒ साही, सही, सहसेही

Хинди

Alternative forms

• सिंघ (sĩṅgh)

Etymology

From Санскрт सिंह (siṃhá).

Noun

सिंह (sĩṅh)

1. lion
2. (астрономија) The constellation Leo
3. (астрологија) A Leo

Synonyms

• शेर (śer)

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Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• ᬲᬶᬂᬳ (Balinese текст)
• সিংহ (Assamese текст)
• সিংহ (Bengali текст)
• 𑰭𑰰𑰽𑰮 (Bhaiksuki текст)
• 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀳 (Brahmi текст)
• 𑌸𑌿𑌂𑌹 (Grantha текст)
• સિંહ (Gujarati текст)
• ꦱꦶꦁꦲ (Javanese текст)
• ಸಿಂಹ (Каннада текст)
• သိံဟ (Burmese текст)
• ସିଂହ (Oriya текст)
• ꢱꢶꢀꢲ (Saurashtra текст)
• 𑆱𑆴𑆁𑆲 (Sharada текст)
• 𑖭𑖰𑖽𑖮 (Siddham текст)
• སིཾཧ (Тибетански текст)
• 𑒮𑒱𑓀𑒯 (Tirhuta текст)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *sinźʰás, from Пра-Индо-Ирански *sinĵʰás, from dialectal Пра-Индо-Европски *sinǵʰo-, ultimately a borrowing from a Central Asian substrate language. Cognate with Old Armenian ինձ (inj).

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): /ˈs̪ĩ.ɦɐ/

(Vedic) МФА^(кључ): /s̪ĩ.ɦɐ́/

(Classical) МФА^(кључ): /ˈs̪ĩ.ɦɐ/

Noun

सिंह (siṃhá) m

1. the lion
2. the zodiacal sign Leo or its lagna
3. hero, eminent person
4. a particular form of temple
5. a particular place prepared for the building of a house
6. a Moringa with red flowers
7. (музика) a kind of tune
8. the symbol or emblem of the 24th arhat of the present avasarpini

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of सिंह
Nom. sg.	सिंहः (siṃhaḥ)
Gen. sg.	सिंहस्य (siṃhasya)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	सिंहः (siṃhaḥ)	सिंहौ (siṃhau)	सिंहाः (siṃhāḥ)
Vocative	सिंह (siṃha)	सिंहौ (siṃhau)	सिंहाः (siṃhāḥ)
Accusative	सिंहम् (siṃham)	सिंहौ (siṃhau)	सिंहान् (siṃhān)
Instrumental	सिंहेन (siṃhena)	सिंहाभ्याम् (siṃhābhyām)	सिंहैः (siṃhaiḥ)
Dative	सिंहाय (siṃhāya)	सिंहाभ्याम् (siṃhābhyām)	सिंहेभ्यः (siṃhebhyaḥ)
Ablative	सिंहात् (siṃhāt)	सिंहाभ्याम् (siṃhābhyām)	सिंहेभ्यः (siṃhebhyaḥ)
Genitive	सिंहस्य (siṃhasya)	सिंहयोः (siṃhayoḥ)	सिंहानाम् (siṃhānām)
Locative	सिंहे (siṃhe)	सिंहयोः (siṃhayoḥ)	सिंहेषु (siṃheṣu)

Derived terms

• सिंहकेसर (siṃhakesara)
• सिंहदंष्ट्र (siṃhadaṃṣṭra)
• सिंहद्वार (siṃhadvāra)
• सिंहपुर (siṃhapura)
• सिंहबल (siṃhabala)
• सिंहवाहिनी (siṃhavāhinī)
• सिंहाचल (siṃhācala)
• सिंहासन (siṃhāsana)
• सिंहास्य (siṃhāsya)
• सिंहिका (siṃhikā)

 

Descendants

• Assamese: সিংহ (xiṅho)
• Bengali: সিংহ (śingh)
• Gujarati: સિંહ (sĩṅh)
• Hindi: सिंह (sĩṅh), सिंघ (sĩṅgh)
• Indonesian: singa
• Kannada: ಸಿಂಹ (siṁha)
• Khmer: សឹង្ហ (seung)
• Lao: ສິງ (sing)
• Malay: singa
  • Bau Bidayuh: singa
  • Central Melanau: singa
• Malayalam: സിംഹം (siṃhaṃ)
• Marathi: सिंह (siṃha)

• Nepali: सिंह (sĩṅh)
• Oriya: ସିଂହ (sinha)
• Pali: sīha
  • Burmese: သိဟ် (sih)
  • Khmer: សីហា (səyhaa), សីហៈ (səyhaʾ)
• Sinhalese: සිංහය (siṁhaya)
• Telugu: సింహము (siṃhamu)
• Tamil: சிங்கம் (ciṅkam)
• Thai: สิงห์, สิงโต
• Tibetan: སེངྒེ (sengge)
• Urdu: سنہ‎‎ (sĩṅh), سنگھ‎‎ (sĩṅgh)

Proper noun

सिंह (siṃhá) m

1. name of a son of Krishna
2. name of a king of the Vidyadharas
3. name of a king (the father of साहिदेव (sāhi-deva))
4. name of the Venkata mountain
5. (with आचार्य (ācārya)) name of an astronomer
6. name of various other persons
7. a particular mythical bird

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1213