Hindi

Proper noun

गणेश • ‎(Gaṇeś) m ‎(Urdu spelling گنیش)

1. Ganesha

Sanskrit

Etymology

From गण ‎(Ganas, “servants of Shiva”) + ईश ‎(īśa).

Proper noun

गणेश • ‎(Gaṇeśa) m

1. Ganesha
2. name of Shiva
3. (in the plural) a class of siddhas (with śaivas)
4. name of a renowned astronomer of the 16th century
5. name of a son of Rāma-deva
6. name of a son of Viśvanātha-dīkṣita and grandson of Bhāvarāma-kṛṣṇa (author of a commentary called Ciccandrikā)

Synonyms

• गणपतिं ‎(gaṇapatiṃ)

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0343