सोमनाथ

Sanskrit

Etymology

From सोम (soma) +‎ नाथ (nātha)

Proper noun

सोमनाथ • (somanātha) n

  1. (Hinduism) Name of a celebrated linga of Siva and of the place where it was set up by the god Soma. It was one of the 12 great jyotirlinga temples of India held in especial veneration.
  2. A male given name commonly used in India.

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1250
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