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Meaning: (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative Classified under: Nouns denoting time and temporal relations Synonyms: Context example: the family is sitting shiva Hypernyms ("shiva" is a kind of...): hebdomad; week (any period of seven consecutive days) Domain category: Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)
Meaning: The destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later Hindu pantheon Classified under: Nouns denoting people Synonyms: Siva; Shiva Instance hypernyms: Hindu deity (a deity worshipped by the Hindus) Instance hyponyms: Bairava (epithet of Siva) Holonyms ("Shiva" is a member of...): Trimurti (the triad of divinities of later Hinduism) "A friend in need is a friend indeed." (English proverb) "It's impossible to awaken a man who is pretending to be asleep." (Native American proverb, Navajo) "The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing." (Arabic proverb) "When two dogs fight over a bone, a third one carries it away." (Dutch proverb) Useful links: Definition of week Definition of hebdomad Definition of Judaism Definition of Bairava Definition of Trimurti
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