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Shweta ( Deva, श्वेता) is an Indian Hindu feminine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
. The Sanskrit word ' literally means "white".
The
Hindu
Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...
goddess of knowledge
Saraswati is also known as "Shwetambara".
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Notable people
Shweta
* Shweta Bhardwaj (born 1985), Indian actress and model
* Shweta Chaudhary (born 1986), Indian shooter
* Shweta Gulati, Indian television actress
* Shweta Kawatra (born 1986), Indian actress
* Shweta Menon (born 1974), Indian actress and model
* Shweta Mohan (born 1986), Indian singer
* Shweta Munshi, Indian television actress
* Shweta Pandit
Shweta Pandit (born 7 July 1986) is an Indian singer and actress from Bollywood. She is the grand-niece of Indian classical vocalist and Padma Vibhushan awardee, Pandit Jasraj. She has also recorded popular songs for various Telugu and Tamil ...
(born 1986), Indian singer
* Shweta Prasad (born 1991), Indian film actress
* Shweta Rathore (born 1988), Indian bodybuilder
* Shweta Salve, Indian television actress and model
* Shweta Sekhon (born 1997), Malaysian model and beauty pageant titleholder
* Shweta Shetty (born 1969), Indian singer
* Shweta Subram
Kantimathi Subramanian Iyer, known professionally as Shweta Subram, is a Canadian playback singer, known for singing in the song " Jalebi Baby" (2020). She primarily sings in Hindi, as well as Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, English and other language ...
, Indo-Canadian Bollywood playback singer
* Shweta Taneja
Shweta Taneja is an Indian author of novels, short fiction, graphic novels, nonfiction and comic books. Her work includes fantasy fiction series ''The Rakta Queen: An Anantya Tantrist Mystery'', ''The Matsya Curse: An Anantya Tantrist Mystery'', ...
, Indian novelist, graphic novelist and journalist
* Shweta Tiwari, Indian film and television actress
* Sweta Singh , Indian News reporter
Shwetha
* Shwetha Bandekar, actress in Tamil and Telugu cinema
* Shwetha Chengappa
Swetha Changappa is a Kannada television actress who has acted in various tele-serials and films. She is well known for her role "Rani" in Majaa Talkies.
Career
She debuted her acting career through ''Sumathi'', a serial directed by S. Naray ...
, actress in Kannada cinema
* P. Shwetha, actress in Tamil cinema
* Shwetha Srivatsav, actress in Kannada cinema
See also
* ''Oxyopes shweta
''Oxyopes shweta'' is a species of lynx spider.http://spiderindia.lifedesks.org/pages/19596 This spider is distributed in India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest cou ...
'', a species of lynx spider
* ''Sweta
''Sweta'' is a genus of leafhopper in the subfamily Typhlocybinae, with two species. The genus name is derived from the Sanskrit word for white, the type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species nam ...
'', a genus of leafhopper in the subfamily Typhlocybinae
* Svetlana
Svetlana () is a common Orthodox Slavic feminine given name, deriving from the East and South Slavic root ''svet'' (), meaning "light", "shining", "luminescent", "pure", "blessed", or "holy", depending upon context similar if not the same as t ...
, a Slavic cognate
References
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Indian feminine given names