स्वर्ग

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्वर्ग (svargá). Cognate with Malay syurga, Telugu స్వర్గం (svargaṁ), Thai สวรรค์ (sà-wǎn).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /sʋəɾɡ/, [sʋɐɾɡ]

स्वर्ग • (svarg) m (Urdu spelling سورگ)

1. paradise, heaven, abode of the gods

   Synonyms: (chiefly Islam) जन्नत (jannat), सुखदाम (sukhdām), शमलोक (śamlok)

   देवदूत उसे स्वर्ग में ले गए।

   devdūt use svarg mẽ le gae.

   The angels took him to heaven.

2. (Hinduism) svarga

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “स्वर्ग”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *suHargás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *suHargás, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ul-gʷḿ̥-s (“going to the sun”). Directly cognate with Ancient Greek ἠλίβατος (ēlíbatos, “high, steep”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sʋɐɾ.ɡɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ʋɐɾ.ɡɐ/

स्वर्ग • (svargá) stem, m

1. heaven, paradise
2. domain of Indra, chief among the devas
3. celestial abode of light and of the gods

स्वर्ग • (svargá)

1. heavenly
2. celestial

• स्वर्गगत (svargagata, “going to heaven”)
• स्वर्गपति (svargapati, “lord of Heaven, a name for Indra”)

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्वर्ग”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1281.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 795