From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shiva
n 1: (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the
death of close relative; "the family is sitting shiva"
[syn: shiva, shivah, shibah]
2: the destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later
Hindu pantheon [syn: Siva, Shiva]