देव
Sanskrit
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Definitions
- heavenly, divine, also said of terrestrial things of high excellence (Rigvedic)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *daywás inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *daywás (supernatural being, god) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (god, the celestial one, deity, shine, god that which belongs to heaven), *dyew- (sky, shine, heaven, be bright, god, day).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dyew-
Gloss
sky, shine, heaven, be bright, god, day
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
日
Emoji
☁️ ✈️ ⭐️ 🌟 🌠 🌤️ 🌥️ 🌪️ 🌬️ 🔭 🚁 🛩️ 🛫 🛬
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Dev English
- Devanagari English
- Dis English
- deify English
- deiparous English
- deity English
- deva English
- devic English
- divination English
- divine English
- divinity English
- juglans English
- Deus Latin
- Diana Latin
- Iovem Latin
- Iovis Latin
- deificatio Latin
- deifico Latin
- deificus Latin
- deificāre Latin
- deiformis Latin
- deitas Latin
- deus Latin
- diurnālis Latin
- dives Latin
- divinus Latin
- divus Latin
- diēs Latin
- dīva Latin
- dīvīnitātem Latin
- dīvīnus Latin
- edepol Latin
- hodiernus Latin
- ioviālis Latin
- meridianus Latin
- meridies Latin
- merīdiānum Latin
- merīdiōnālis Latin
- -ismus German
- Deismus German
- dévanágari Hungarian
- deh Italian
- devanagari Italian
- diario Italian
- dio Italian
- deva Dutch, Flemish
- déisme French
- déiste French
- деванагари Russian
- dios Spanish, Castilian
- Ζεύς Ancient Greek
- Θεοτόκος Ancient Greek
- δηθά Ancient Greek
- διιπετής Ancient Greek
- διοπετής Ancient Greek
- δῆλος Ancient Greek
- δῖος Ancient Greek
- παν- Ancient Greek
- *deywós Proto-Indo-European
- *diwyós Proto-Indo-European
- *dyew(p) Proto-Indo-European
- *dyew- Proto-Indo-European
- *dyḗm Proto-Indo-European
- *dyḗws Proto-Indo-European
- *dyḗws, *Dyḗws ph₂tḗr Proto-Indo-European
- *déywih₂ Proto-Indo-European
- deus Portuguese
- devanágari Portuguese
- *Tīwas dagaz Proto-Germanic
- *Tīwaz Proto-Germanic
- *langatīnaz Proto-Germanic
- デーヴァナーガリー Japanese
- dewanagari Polish
- अद्य Sanskrit
- दिन Sanskrit
- देवता Sanskrit
- देवनागरी Sanskrit
- देवभाषा Sanskrit
- देवयज्ञ Sanskrit
- देवयान Sanskrit
- नगर Sanskrit
- पुत्र Sanskrit
- भाषा Sanskrit
- यज्ञ Sanskrit
- यान Sanskrit
- aindia Irish
- aindiach Irish
- aindiaga Irish
- aondiach Irish
- bandia Irish
- dia Irish
- dia-aithis Irish
- dialann Irish
- diamhasla Irish
- ildiach Irish
- ديو Arabic
- دِيُو Arabic
- deu Old French
- dous Old French
- दे Hindi
- देव Hindi
- देवता Hindi
- देवनागरी Hindi
- zeiță Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- zeu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- zilnic Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- zo te cuște Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- zău Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- دیو Persian
- لیو Persian
- เทพ Thai
- เทพารักษ์ Thai
- เทวนาครี Thai
- เทวะ Thai
- diwata Cebuano
- dewa Indonesian
- Duw Welsh
- dev Turkish
- Día Old Irish
- día Old Irish
- దేవుడు Telugu
- ధరణిదేవుడు Telugu
- భూదేవుడు Telugu
- ain-diadhach Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- ban-dia Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- dia Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- diwa Tagalog
- madiwa Tagalog
- paladiwaan Tagalog
- dewa Malay
- ဒေဝ Burmese
- ဒေဝနာဂရီ Burmese
- zot Albanian
- deité Middle French
- دیو Ottoman Turkish
- deus Old Portuguese
- দেৱনাগৰী Assamese
- *dēwos Proto-Celtic
- *dīyos Proto-Celtic
- देवपुत्र Chinese
- 提婆 Chinese
- bhumma Pali
- deva Pali
- devaloka Pali
- devatā Pali
- rukkha Pali
- ākāsa Pali
- देव Pali
- *daywás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *dinám Proto-Indo-Iranian
- 데바나가리 Korean
- *deiwos Proto-Italic
- *deiwā Proto-Italic
- *djouglānts Proto-Italic
- *djēm Proto-Italic
- dieu Romansh
- dios Asturian
- देवनागरी Marathi
- ទេពារក្ស Central Khmer
- ទេវ Central Khmer
- diu Friulian
- dievas Lithuanian
- pusdievis Lithuanian
- *daywás Proto-Indo-Aryan
- deu Old Occitan
- دیو Urdu
- dios Old Spanish
- deu Sicilian
- diu Sicilian
- Duw Cornish
- தேவன் Tamil
- *deiwas Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Dyo Ladino
- דיו Ladino
- *daywáh Proto-Iranian
- ܕܝܘܐ Classical Syriac
- 𐎭𐎡𐎺 Old Persian
- dei Bourguignon
- devel Romani
- debbha Old Khmer
- deo Istriot
- deva Old Khmer
- devatā Old Khmer
- *dzéus Proto-Hellenic
- 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 Avestan
- 𐬛𐬫𐬀𐬊𐬱 Avestan
- diu Corsican
- Dīvāna Old Latin
- deivos Old Latin
- diwata Hiligaynon
- diu Picard
- देव Rajasthani
- ଦେବ Oriya
- देव Awadhi
- debel Caló
- ᨴᩮᩅ Northern Thai
- 𒋾𒉿𒊍 Luwian
- dėina Samogitian
- 𐌃𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌏𐌔 Venetic