شیش ناگ

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit शेषनाग (śeṣanāga).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃeːʃ.nɑːɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɡ

Noun

شیش ناگ • (śeś nāg) m (Hindi spelling शेषनाग)

1. (Hinduism) Shesha, a serpentine demigod and king of the serpents.

Declension

Declension of شیش ناگ
	singular
direct	شیش ناگ (śeś nāg)
oblique	شیش ناگ (śeś nāg)
vocative	شیش ناگ (śeś nāg)

Further reading

• “شیش ناگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “شیش+ناگ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “شيش”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 740
• John Shakespear (1834) “سيسناگ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “سيسناگ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 806