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The word "Deva" shares similarities with Persian Daeva. Deva is masculine; the related feminine equivalent is devi. Etymologically, Devi is cognate with Latin dea. When capitalized, Devi or Mata refers to a divine mother goddess in Hinduism. Deva is also referred to as Devatā, and Devi as Devika.
- দেৱতা, (dewatā)
- Heavenly, divine, shiny, exalted, anything of excellence, donor of knowledge or resources.
- ᬤᬾᬯ, (déwa)
- देव, (IAST: deva)
Etymologically it means "god", “shiny,” “exalted”; and thus we find that the term deva covers everything that has to do with the supernatural: all figures, forms, processes and emotions, melodies, books, and verse meters—whatever needs the explanation of a transcendent origin or status—are called devas or devatā.
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Devi. Devī ( / ˈdeɪvi /; Sanskrit: देवी) is the Sanskrit word for ' goddess '; the masculine form is deva. Devi and deva mean 'heavenly, divine, anything of excellence', and are also gender-specific terms for a deity in Hinduism . The concept and reverence for goddesses appears in the Vedas, which were composed around the 2nd ...
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god. spirit. deva, in the Vedic religion of India and in later Hinduism, one of many gods, often roughly divided into sky, air, and earth divinities on the basis of their identification with the forces of nature. In the pantheistic systems that emerged by the Late Vedic period, the deva s became subordinate to the one supreme being.
Deva (Hinduism) Deva or Dev are terms used by the Hindu people for The Almighty or The GOD. Hindu people believe that there are 330 million deva or gods present in their religion. Category: Hinduism.
