शंतनु

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit शंतनु (śáṃtanu).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃən.t̪ə.nuː/,

शंतनु • (śantanu) m (Urdu spelling شَنْتَانُو)

1. (Hinduism) Shantanu
2. a male given name, Shantanu, from Sanskrit

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “शंतनु”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha

• शान्तनु (śāntanu)
• शांतनु (śāṃtanu)
• शन्तनु (śantanu)

Compound of शम् (śam) +‎ तनु (tanu).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕɐ́n.tɐ.nu/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɕɐn̪.t̪ɐ.n̪u/

शंतनु • (śáṃtanu) stem

1. wholesome for the body or the person

शंतनु • (śáṃtanu) stem, m

1. (Hinduism) Shantanu, King of the Kuru Kingdom, husband of Ganga and Satyavati, father of Bhishma, Chitrāngada and Vichitravirya.
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.98.1:

     बृह॑स्पते॒ प्रति॑ मे दे॒वता॑मिहि मि॒त्रो वा॒ यद्वरु॑णो॒ वासि॑ पू॒षा।
     आ॒दि॒त्यैर्वा॒ यद्वसु॑भिर्म॒रुत्वा॒न्त्स प॒र्जन्यं॒ शंत॑नवे वृषाय॥

     bṛ́haspate práti me devátāmihi mitró vā yádváruṇo vā́si pūṣā́.
     ādityaírvā yádvásubhirmarútvāntsá parjányaṃ śáṃtanave vṛṣāya.

     Come, be you Mitra, Varuna, or Pusan, come, O Brhaspati, to mine oblation: With Maruts, Vasus, or Adityas, make you Parjanya pour for Shantanu his rain-drops.

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: शंतनु (śantanu)

  Urdu: شَنْتَانُو (śantanu)

• → Persian: شانتانو (šântânu)

• Monier Williams (1899) “शंतनु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1054, column 3.