सोमनाथ
Sanskrit
Etymology
From सोम (soma) + नाथ (nātha)
Proper noun
सोमनाथ • (somanātha) stem, n
- (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.
- a male given name commonly used in India.
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “सोमनाथ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1250.