Shiv
See also: shiv
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Variant of Shiva, from Sanskrit शिव (Śivá, “the auspicious one”).
Proper noun
[edit]Shiv
- A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Siobhan and its other anglicised spellings.
Proper noun
[edit]Shiv
- A diminutive of the female given name Siobhan.
- 2003, Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood, Orion, →ISBN, page 19:
- 'Hiya, Shiv. It's Bobby Hogan here.' Detective Inspector Bobby Hogan. She'd asked him before not to call her Shiv. A lot of people tried it. Siobhan, pronounced Shi-vawn, shortened to Shiv. When people wrote her name down, it turned into all sorts of erroneous spellings. She remembered that Fairstone had called her 'Shiv' a few times, attempting familiarity. She hated it, and knew she should correct Hogan, but she didn't.