Arjun (name)
| Arjun | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | South Asia |
| Meaning |
"white", "clear" [1] "silver"[1] |
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Arjun (Devanagari: अर्जुन arjuna, Hindi pronunciation: [ɐrˈdʒʊn]) is an Indian male given name, based on Arjuna, a legendary hero who is an archer in central character of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. Arjuna had five other brothers, who were Yudhishthira, Bhima, Nakula, Sahadeva, and Karna. Their father Pandu had a curse that he would die if he ever approached a woman with the intent of making love because he unintentionally killed a sage and his wife.
Notable persons with the name
Legendary
- Arjuna, a hero of the Mahabharata
- Kartavirya Arjuna, an Indian Emperor
Actors
- Arjun (Firoz Khan), actor, born as Firoz Khan, who played the role of Arjuna in B.R. Chopra's TV series Mahabharat
- Arjun Bijlani, television actor and model
- Arjun Kapoor, movie actor
- Arjun Rampal, fashion model and movie actor
- Arjun Sarja, actor from south India, who works predominantly in Tamil films.
- Allu Arjun, Indian actor of Telugu films
Others
- Arjun (singer), (real name Arjun Coomaraswamy), British-Sri Lankan singer-songwriter, and producer known by his mononym Arjun
- Arjun Munda, chief minister of the Indian state of Jharkhand
- Arjun Appadurai, a contemporary social theorist
- Arjun Atwal, professional golfer
- Arjun Janya Indian film score and soundtrack composer and singer, mainly scoring music for Kannada films
- Arjuna Ranatunga, former Sri Lankan cricketer, now a politician.
See also
References
- 1 2 Monier-Williams, Monier (1899), A Sanskrit-English dictionary : etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-864308-1
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