शंकर

Borrowed from Sanskrit शंकर (śaṃkara).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃəŋ.kəɾ/,

शंकर • (śaṅkar) m

1. (Hinduism) Shiva

   Synonyms: शिव (śiv), महादेव (mahādev), शंभु (śambhu), रुद्र (rudra)

2. a male given name, Shankar, from Sanskrit, of Hindu usage

   शंकर महादेवन ― śaṅkar mahādevan ― Shankar Mahadevan

Borrowed from Sanskrit शंकर (śaṃkara).

• IPA^(key): /ʃəŋ.kəːɾ/

शंकर • (śaṅkar) (Latin script Xencor, Kannada script ಶಂಕರ್)

1. (Hinduism) Shiva

   Synonym: महादेव (mahādev)

• शङ्कर (śaṅkará)

Compound of शम् (śam, “auspiciously, fortunately”) +‎ कर (kará, “doer”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕɐŋ.kɐ.ɾɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɕɐŋ.kɐ.ɾɐ/

शंकर • (śaṃkará) stem, m

1. the "maker of happiness"; an epithet of Rudra, a manifestation of Shiva
   • c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda (Taittirīya Saṃhitā) IV.5.8.10:

     नमः॑ शंक॒राय॑ च मयस्क॒राय॑ च॒ नमः॑ शि॒वाय॑ च शि॒वत॑राय च॒

     námaḥ śaṃkarā́ya ca mayaskarā́ya ca námaḥ śivā́ya ca śivátarāya ca

     Homage to the maker of happiness, and to the maker of delight.
     Homage to the auspicious, and to the more auspicious.

2. name of various authors and commentators, especially of Adi Shankara

शंकर • (śaṃkará) stem

1. causing prosperity, auspicious, beneficent.

• → English: Shankar
• → Hindi: शंकर (śaṅkar)
• → Kannada: ಶಂಕರ (śaṅkara)
• → Konkani: शंकर (śaṅkar)
• → Marathi: शंकर (śaṅkar)
• → Tamil: சங்கரன் (caṅkaraṉ)
• → Telugu: శంకరుడు (śaṅkaruḍu)
  • ⇒ Telugu: శంకరాభరణము (śaṅkarābharaṇamu)

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