ईश

Borrowed from Sanskrit ईश (īśa).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /iːʃ/

ईश • (īś) m

1. (formal, literary) Synonym of ईश्वर (īśvar, “lord, husband, God, deity”)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:भगवान

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “ईश”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 110

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *HiHśás, form Proto-Indo-Iranian *HiHćás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to own; ability, possession”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬀𐬉𐬱𐬁- (aēšā-, “ability, possessions”), Tocharian B aik- (“to know”), and Proto-Germanic *aiganą (Whence English own, Danish eje).

The Sanskrit root is ईश् (īś). See also ईश्वर (īśvará).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /iː.ɕɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.ɕɐ/

ईश • (īśá) stem

1. owning, possessing

ईश • (īśá) stem, m

1. lord, master, ruler
2. one who is a master of anything
3. a husband
4. one of the 11 Rudras
5. the number ‘eleven’ (as there are eleven Rudras)

ईश • (īśa) stem, m

1. an epithet of Shiva as regent of the north-east quarter
2. an epithet of Shiva
3. an epithet of Kubera

• → Hindi: ईश (īś)
• → Telugu: ఈశుడు (īśuḍu)
• → Tamil: ஈசன் (īcaṉ)

• Monier Williams (1899) “ईश”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 171.