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Lion statues surround the Independence Monument in Maha Bandula Park, in front of Yangon City Hall Two lions guard the entrance to Shwedagon Pagoda [1]. Chinthe [a] (Burmese: ခြင်္သေ့ (IPA: [tɕʰɪ̀ɰ̃ðḛ]); Mon: ဇာဒိသိုၚ် ([cɛ̀atìʔsaŋ]); Shan: သၢင်ႇသီႈ ([sàːŋ si])) is the Burmese word for 'lion'.
Lev is a common Slavic name meaning "lion". The Latin name for Lviv is Leopolis, meaning "Lion City". The name of the city of Oran in Algeria is derived from the Berber root 'HR meaning lion, from which are also derived the names of Tahert and Souk Ahras. The name is attested in multiple Berber languages, for instance as uharu and ahra. A ...
A pair of komainu, the "a" on the right, the "um" on the left. Komainu (狛犬), often called lion-dogs in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures, which traditionally guard the entrance or gate of the shrine, or placed in front of or within the honden (inner sanctum) of Japanese Shinto shrines.
The Lion in the 1870s. The Lion seen from ground level in 2017. The Lion seen from the Doge's Palace.. The Lion of Venice is an ancient bronze sculpture of a winged lion in the Piazza San Marco of Venice, Italy, which came to symbolize the city—as well as one of its patron saints, St Mark—after its arrival there in the 12th century.
Medici lion has become a term for this sculptural type. [2] The Albani lion, a similar ancient sculpture, now at the Louvre. A similar Roman lion sculpture, of the 1st century AD, is known as the Albani lion, and is now in the Louvre. Here, the stone used for the ball is different from the basalt body. Both may derive from a Hellenistic ...
In Chinese, they are traditionally called simply shi (Chinese: 獅; pinyin: shī) meaning lion—the word shi itself is thought to be derived from the Persian word šer. [2] Lions were first presented to the Han court by emissaries from Central Asia and Persia , and were already popularly depicted as guardian figures by the sixth century AD. [ 3 ]
Shortly after that student graduated, Penn State went nearly two full decades without a costumed Nittany Lion until 1939, when a costume much more closely resembling a mountain lion debuted and ...
Side view of a Manussiha in a dictionary. Manussīha(မနုဿီဟ) is a combination of two Pali words; Manussa(မနုဿ) meaning "human" and Sīha(သီဟ) meaning "lion". Thus, it can be literally translated as "Man-lion". The Myanmar-English Dictionary, published by the Myanmar Language Commission, defined မနုဿီဟ as: