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Aravind (from Sanskrit: अरविन्द aravinda) is a common Indian masculine name meaning lotus. The name is of Hindu origin. Its variants include Arvind, Aravinda, Aravindan, and Aurobindo (Bengali: অরবিন্দ).
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Hindi, Bengali, Odia |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Sanskrit |
| Meaning | Lotus |
| Region of origin | India |
Meaning
Aravinda means lotus in the Sanskrit language. In particular, the word may refer to the lotus flower, on which the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity – Lakshmi – sits. It could also refer to the Sanskrit term aravindākṣa (meaning the "lotus eyed one"), the 347th name used to describe the Hindu god Vishnu in the Vishnu Sahasranama.
Notable people
- Arvind Kejriwal, Indian politician and former bureaucrat
- Arvind Khanna, Indian politician and businessman
- Arvind Panagariya, Indian-American economist, professor of economics at Columbia University
- Arvind Pandey, Indian politician
- Arvind Mithal, known simply as Arvind, Indian-American professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT
- Arvind Parmar, British tennis player
- Arvind Sawant, Indian politician
- Arvind Sharma (born 1940), Indian academic
- Arvind Singh Mewar, Indian businessman, Maharana of Udaipur (Mewar)
- Arvind Swamy, Indian film actor
- Arvind Kumar (disambiguation), several people
Aravind
- Aravind Akash, Indian actor
- Aravind Adiga, Indian journalist and author
- Aravind L. Iyer, Indian evolutionary biologist
Aravinda
- Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
- Aravinda Akroyd Ghose, better known as Sri Aurobindo, Indian philosopher
- Aravinda Chakravarti, American geneticist
Other variants
- Arabinda Muduli, Indian Odia musician, singer and lyricist
- Arabinda Dhali, politician from Odisha
- Aravindan Neelakandan, Indian writer
- Chithambaram Aravindh, Indian chess grandmaster
- Sri Aurobindo, Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi and poet from Bengal
References
- Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 685239912.
- Teresa Norman (2003). A World of Baby Names. Penguin. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-399-52894-1.
See also
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