LINGHAM
लिङ्गं liṅgaṃ. Vaman Shivram Apte's Sanskrit dictionary provides many definitions:- A mark, sign, token, an emblem, a badge, symbol, distinguishing mark, characteristic;
- A false or unreal mark, a guise, disguise, a deceptive badge;
- A symptom, mark of disease
- A means of proof, a proof, evidence
- In logic, the hetu or middle term in a syllogism
- The sign of gender or sex
- Sex
- The male organ of reproduction
- In grammar, gender
- The genital organ of Śiva worshiped in the form of a Phallus
- The image of a god, an idol
- One of the relations or indications which serve to fix the meaning of a word in any particular passage
- In Vedānta philosophy, the subtle frame or body, the indestructible original of the gross or visible body
- A spot or stain
- The nominal base, the crude form of a noun
- In Sāk philosophy, Pradhāna or Prakriti
- The effect or product of evolution from a primary cause and also as the producer
- Inference, conclusion