devan.

Brit.

/ˈdeɪvə/,

/ˈdiːvə/, U.S.

/ˈdeɪvə/

Etymology: Sanskrit dēva a god, originally ‘a bright or shining one’ < *div- to shine.

A god, a divinity; one of the good spirits of Hindu mythology.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > other deities > [noun] > Indian or Hindu

deva1819

1819 T. Hope Anastasius (1820) III. x. 251 A palace, a mosque, and a bath, whose architecture, achieved as if by magic, seemed worthy of the Devas.

1834 Baboo II. viii. 157 (Stanf.) By the Deva, who is enshrined in this temple!

1878 F. M. Müller Orig. Relig. (1891) 280 When the poets of the Veda address the mountains to protect them, when they implore the rivers to yield them water, they may speak of rivers and mountains as devas, but even then, though deva would be more than bright, it would as yet be very far from anything we mean by divine.

1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia i. 2 The Devas knew the signs, and said, ‘Buddha will go again to help the World’.

1888 Geldner in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 821 In the older Rig-Veda..a god is spoken of as dêva, but not every dêva is an asura... Asura is ethically the higher conception, deva the lower: deva is the vulgar notion of God, asura is theosophic.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.

ΚΠ

1878 M. Haug Relig. of Parsis (ed. 2) 287 A vital struggle between the professors of the Deva and those of the Ahura religion.

1878 M. Haug Relig. of Parsis (ed. 2) 287 The Deva-worshippers combated by the Zoroastrians.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	deva
释义	devan. Brit. /ˈdeɪvə/, /ˈdiːvə/, U.S. /ˈdeɪvə/ Etymology: Sanskrit dēva a god, originally ‘a bright or shining one’ < div- to shine. A god, a divinity; one of the good spirits of Hindu mythology. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > other deities > [noun] > Indian or Hindu deva1819 1819 T. Hope Anastasius* (1820) III. x. 251 A palace, a mosque, and a bath, whose architecture, achieved as if by magic, seemed worthy of the Devas. 1834 Baboo II. viii. 157 (Stanf.) By the Deva, who is enshrined in this temple! 1878 F. M. Müller Orig. Relig. (1891) 280 When the poets of the Veda address the mountains to protect them, when they implore the rivers to yield them water, they may speak of rivers and mountains as devas, but even then, though deva would be more than bright, it would as yet be very far from anything we mean by divine. 1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia i. 2 The Devas knew the signs, and said, ‘Buddha will go again to help the World’. 1888 Geldner in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 821 In the older Rig-Veda..a god is spoken of as dêva, but not every dêva is an asura... Asura is ethically the higher conception, deva the lower: deva is the vulgar notion of God, asura is theosophic. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1878 M. Haug Relig. of Parsis (ed. 2) 287 A vital struggle between the professors of the Deva and those of the Ahura religion. 1878 M. Haug Relig. of Parsis (ed. 2) 287 The Deva-worshippers combated by the Zoroastrians. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1819
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