Devansh
देवांशa portion of the divine
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Dev
देव
god, deity, divine being
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Dev means ‘god’, ‘deity’ or ‘divine being’, from Sanskrit deva. Wiktionary records the Hindi word and given name, with religious uses across Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions. Sanskrit also uses deva as an adjective meaning ‘heavenly’ or ‘divine’. The word appears in longer names such as Ramdev and Devansh, but Dev can stand on its own with the same broad divine meaning.
Source: Wiktionary, देव. How we use sources.
Spelling and pronunciation
देव is one syllable in Hindi, approximately daev, with a steady long e rather than the short vowel in ‘developer’. Deva retains the Sanskrit final vowel and has two syllables. Deb is a Bengali form. These spellings reflect language differences as well as different ways of writing the name.
Also spelled Deva, Deb.