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Shwetank
श्वेतांकSay it shway-TAANK
- Meaning today
- Having a white mark, fair
- Original meaning
- "white-marked (śveta 'white, bright' + aṅka 'a mark, sign')" Monier-Williams, p. 1106
- Say it
- shway-TAANK
- Written
- श्वेतांक
- Other spellings
- Swetank, Shvetank
Shwetank
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Shwetank meaning
Shwetank (श्वेतांक) is a Hindu boy's name of Sanskrit origin.
White-marked (śveta 'white, bright' + aṅka 'a mark, sign')
Also used to mean: having a white mark, fair
Shwetank (श्वेतांक) joins Sanskrit śveta, "white, bright", with aṅka, a word Monier-Williams gives with many senses, among them a mark, sign or stamp. Read together it means one bearing a white mark, and that is how most name lists explain it; some connect it with Śiva, whose body is smeared white with ash, though that link is a devotional reading. The compound has no entry of its own in the dictionary. It is used mainly in north India, sometimes spelled Swetank or Shvetank.
Source: Monier-Williams, Sanskrit–English Dictionary (1899), p. 1106 · entry śveta · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026
References: Monier-Williams, śveta, p. 1106 · Monier-Williams, aṅka, p. 7
Spellings
Shwetank · Swetank · Shvetank