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noun (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative
noun the destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later Hindu pantheon
originFrom Hebrew שִׁבְעָה (shiv'á, “seven”), referring to the number of days that shiva spans.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0