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Shiv
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shiv
English
Etymology 1
Variant of en Shiva, from en sa शिव Śivá the auspicious one.
Proper noun
en male Sanskrit mainly used in India.
Etymology 2
From en Siobhan and its other anglicised spellings.
Proper noun
en female Siobhan.
en 2003 w:Ian Rankin A Question of Blood Orion 0-75285-110-1 19 'Hiya, Shiv. It's Bobby Hogan here.' Detective Inspector Bobby Hogan. She'd asked him before not to call her Shiv. A lot of people tried it. Siobhan, pronounced Shi-vawn, shortened to Shiv. When people wrote her name down, it turned into all sorts of erroneous spellings. She remembered that Fairstone had called her 'Shiv' a few times, attempting familiarity. She hated it, and knew she should correct Hogan, but she didn't.
Anagrams
en hisv IHVS IHVs
en unisex given names