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in reply to a message by Dhara
Please read the "Submit A Name" page and follow the instructions there:
http://www.behindthename.com/submit.php
You will need to provide proof of the meaning and origin of the name before it is listed; and it may take a year or more for the name to be added to the database.
♦ Chrisell ♦
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
http://www.behindthename.com/submit.php
You will need to provide proof of the meaning and origin of the name before it is listed; and it may take a year or more for the name to be added to the database.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
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A short note to explain the meanings given by the poster: it does not change the fact that this board is for questions and discussions and not for requesting additions to the database.
In Sanskrit, from the root dhR, cognate with the roots in Greek θρονος, θρησασθαι and Latin fretus, frenum etc., meaning to hold or to bear one gets dharA, the earth. This is not to be confused with dhArA, which though spelt the same way in the Latin script, is obtained from the cluster of roots dhan, dhAv, dhu, the last of which is cognate with greek θυω, θυμω, θυωος etc. (the roots variously meaning to shake, agitate, flow etc.), and means a stream or current.
vIra is an old Indoeropean root, which, for example, is cognate with the first part of the English word werewolf, means a (male) man, with all its associated connotations of virility and heroism expected in a patriarchal system. Indra derives from a root possibly meaning to drop, and is the god of rain: in the post vedic hindu pantheon, he is the chief amongst the gods. His name is often, therefore, used to mean `chief', and vIrendra is therefore the chief hero. Biren is a shortening and regional pronounciation of a reflection of this word in Hindi.
In Sanskrit, from the root dhR, cognate with the roots in Greek θρονος, θρησασθαι and Latin fretus, frenum etc., meaning to hold or to bear one gets dharA, the earth. This is not to be confused with dhArA, which though spelt the same way in the Latin script, is obtained from the cluster of roots dhan, dhAv, dhu, the last of which is cognate with greek θυω, θυμω, θυωος etc. (the roots variously meaning to shake, agitate, flow etc.), and means a stream or current.
vIra is an old Indoeropean root, which, for example, is cognate with the first part of the English word werewolf, means a (male) man, with all its associated connotations of virility and heroism expected in a patriarchal system. Indra derives from a root possibly meaning to drop, and is the god of rain: in the post vedic hindu pantheon, he is the chief amongst the gods. His name is often, therefore, used to mean `chief', and vIrendra is therefore the chief hero. Biren is a shortening and regional pronounciation of a reflection of this word in Hindi.
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