Vishnu

English

Etymology

From Sanskrit विष्णु (Víṣṇu).

Proper noun

Vishnu

1. (Hinduism) One of the Trimurti (trinity) in Hindu mythology, and the most popularly venerated god in Hinduism. Vishnu is commonly depicted as being blue in colour and having four arms: with each hand holding either a lotus, a mace, a conch shell or Chakra weapon. Vishnu is the Supreme being or Ultimate Reality for Vaishnavas and a manifestation of Brahman in the Advaita or Smarta traditions of Hinduism.
2. A male given name used in India.

Synonyms

• Narayana

Translations

the god

• Afrikaans: Wisjnoe (af)
• Arabic: فيشنو (ar) (fiishnu) m
• Aragonese: Viṣṇu (an)
• Armenian: Վիշնու (hy) (Višnu) 
• Assamese: বিষ্ণু (as)
• Bengali: বিষ্ণু (bn) (biṣṇu)
• Breton: Vichnou (br)
• Bulgarian: Вишну (bg) (Višnu)
• Burmese: ဗိဿနိုး (my)
• Catalan: Vixnu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毗濕奴 (cmn), 毗湿奴 (cmn) (Píshīnú)

• Czech: Višnu (cs)
• Danish: Vishnu (da)
• Dutch: Vishnoe (nl)
• Esperanto: Viŝnuo (eo)
• Finnish: Vishnu (fi)
• French: Vishnou (fr)
• Galician: Vishnu (gl)
• Georgian: ვიშნუ (ka) (višnu) 
• German: Vishnu (de)
• Gujarati: વિષ્ણુ (gu) (viṣṇu)
• Hebrew: וישנו (he)
• Hindi: विष्णु (hi) (viṣṇu) m
• Hungarian: Visnu (hu)
• Icelandic: Visnjú (is)
• Indonesian: Wisnu (id)
• Italian: Vishnu (it)
• Japanese: ヴィシュヌ (ja) (Vishunu), ビシュヌ (ja) (Bishunu)
• Javanese: Wisnu (jv)
• Kannada: ವಿಷ್ಣು (kn)
• Khmer: ពិស្ណុ (km) (pɨhsnu), ព្រះនារាយណ៍ (km) (preah nieriey), ព្រះវិស្ណុ (km) (preah visnu)
• Korean: 비슈누 (ko) (Bisyunu)

• Latvian: Višnu (lv)
• Lithuanian: Višnus (lt)
• Low German: Wischnu (nds)
• Malay: Vishnu (ms)
• Malayalam: വിഷ്ണു (ml)
• Marathi: विष्णु (mr)
• Newari: विष्णु
• Norwegian: Vishnu (no)
• Oriya: ବିଷ୍ଣୁ (or) (biṣṇu)
• Persian: ویشنو (fa) (višnu)
• Polish: Wisznu (pl)
• Portuguese: Vixnu (pt)
• Punjabi: ਵਿਸ਼੍ਣੁ (pa) (viśṇu)
• Romanian: Vișnu (ro)
• Russian: Вишну (ru) (Víšnu) m  (indeclinable)
• Sanskrit: विष्णु (sa) (víṣṇu) m
• Scots: Vishnu
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Вишну (sh)

  Roman: Višnu (sh)

• Sinhalese: විෂ්ණු (si)
• Slovak: Višnu (sk)
• Slovene: Víšnu (sl) m
• Spanish: Vishnú (es)
• Swedish: Vishnu (sv)
• Tagalog: Vishnu (tl)
• Tamil: விஷ்ணு (ta) (viṣṇu)
• Telugu: విష్ణువు (te)
• Thai: พระวิษณุ (th) (phrá wítnú)
• Turkish: Vişnu (tr)
• Ukrainian: Вішну (uk) (Víšnu) m  (indeclinable)
• Urdu: وشنو (ur) (viṣṇu) m
• Vietnamese: Vishnu (vi)
• Welsh: Vishnu (cy)

External links

• Vishnu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia