Dinesh

Dinesh
Pronunciation	Di'neh sh
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	India
Meaning	"lord of the day", "Sun" in Hindu Mythology
Region of origin	South Asia
Other names
Anglicisation(s)	Dennis
Related names	Suraj, Surya

Dinesh (Devanagari: दिनेश dineśa) is a common Hindu male given name. The Sanskrit word dineśa is a compound of dina 'day' and īśa 'lord', meaning 'day-lord', an epithet of the Sun.^[1]

Notable persons with this name

For persons not listed here, see All pages with titles containing Dinesh

Dinesh Chand, Fijian golfer
Dinesh Chandra Sen, Indian researcher on Bengali folklore
Dinesh D'Souza, Indian-American Christian apologist
Dinesh Gunawardena, Sri Lankan politician
Dinesh Gupta, Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary
Dinesh Karthik, Indian cricketer
Dinesh Kumar, several people
Dinesh Lamba, Indian actor
Dinesh Mongia, Indian cricketer
Dinesh Karthik, Indian cricketer
Dinesh Nandan Sahay, Indian governor
Dinesh Nayak, Indian Hockey player
Dinesh Patel, Indian-American professional baseball player
Dinesh Prasad Singh, Indian Politian
Dinesh Singh, Indian politician
Dinesh Singh, Punjab politician
Dinesh Chandimal, Sri Lankan cricketer
Denesh Ramdin, Trinidadian cricketer

References

↑ Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English dictionary : etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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