विष्णु
Sanskrit
/ʋɪʂɳʊ/
alt
Definitions
- Vishnu ( etc.)
- name of the month चैत्र (चैत्र) ()
- (with प्राजापत्य (प्राजापत्य)) name of the author of X, 84
- name of a son of Manu Sāvarṇa and Manu Bhautya ()
- name of the writer of a law-book
- name of the father of the 11th अर्हत् (अर्हत्) of the present अवसर्पिणी (अवसर्पिणी) ()
- (also with गणक (गणक), कवि (कवि), दैवज्ञ (दैवज्ञ), पण्डित (पण्डित), भट्ट (भट्ट), मिश्र (मिश्र), यतीन्द्र (tr=yatī*ndra), वाजपेयिन् (वाजपेयिन्), शास्त्रिन् (शास्त्रिन्) etc.) name of various authors and others (, )
- = अग्नि (अग्नि) ()
- = वसुदेवता (tr=vasu-devatā) ()
- = शुद्ध (शुद्ध) ()
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (flow, melt, produce, increase, run, turn, procreate, rotate, poison).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*weys-
Gloss
flow, melt, produce, increase, run, turn, procreate, rotate, poison
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
走
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Vishnu English
- vireo Latin
- viscus Latin
- *weys- Proto-Indo-European
- *wisAn- Proto-Indo-European
- *wisgeh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *waisundiz Proto-Germanic
- *waisǭ Proto-Germanic
- *wasô Proto-Germanic
- *wiskaz Proto-Germanic
- विक्रम Sanskrit
- विष्णु Hindi
- విష్ణు Telugu
- ဗိဿနိုး Burmese
- 毗濕奴 Chinese
- وشنو Urdu
- ବିଷ୍ଣୁ Oriya