शिवरात्रि

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

 noun  प्रत्येक मास के कृष्णपक्ष की चतुर्दशी   Ex. मैं शिवरात्रि को उपवास रखता हूँ ।

HYPONYMY:

महाशिवरात्रि

ONTOLOGY:

अवधि (Period) ➜ समय (Time) ➜ अमूर्त (Abstract) ➜ निर्जीव (Inanimate) ➜ संज्ञा (Noun)

SYNONYM:

शिवरात्र

Wordnet:

ben শিবরাত্রি

kas شِوراتری

kok शिवरात्र

   See : महाशिवरात्रि

A dictionary, Marathi and English

   pop. शिवरात्र f A night on which fasting, vigil, and other observances are held in honor of Shiva. The night appointed is the fourteenth of the dark half of every month, but more especially the fourteenth of Mágha; and the ground of the appointment is a legend, in every body's mouth, of a hunter's obtaining Moksha from Shiva, because he, from a Bilva-tree, up which he had climbed to observe a deer he was pursuing, shook down, through the whole night, leaves uponalingam lying hidden underneath; and thus, though unintentionally and ignorantly, propitiated and won the heart of the god Shiva.

Aryabhushan School Dictionary

  m f  A night on which fasting &c. is held in honour of शिव.

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

शिव—रात्रि  f.  f. ‘ शिव's night’, N. of a popular fast and festival in honour of शिव (kept on the 14th of the dark half of the month माघ or January-February with many solemn ceremonies, observed during the day and night cf. शिव-चतुर्दशी), [Rājat.]; [RTL. 90; 428]

ROOTS:

शिव रात्रि

महा-काली   a form of दुर्गा (= ), [Hcat.]

ROOTS:

महा काली

Shabda-Sagara

शिवरात्रि  f.  ( -त्रिः) A celebrated festival held in honour of ŚIVA on the fourteenth of the moon's wane or dark-fortnight in Māgha.
    E. शिव, and रात्रि night.

ROOTS:

शिव रात्रि