Mahua

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Mahua flower and tree; sweet-flowering tree”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Mohua — Mahua flower; sweet intoxicating blossom
• Parijat — Night-flowering jasmine; celestial tree
• Piyali — A flowering tree; one who is like a blossoming tree
• Pushpalata — Flowering creeper, garland of flowers
• Kusumavathi — Full of flowers, flowering
• Oliver — Possibly from Old Norse Óleifr ('ancestral' + 'relic'); popularly linked by folk etymology to the Latin word for olive tree

More girls' names of Bengali origin

• Meghna — The river Meghna; cloud-river of Bengal
• Shiuli — Night jasmine flower; fragrant autumn bloom
• Tanushree — One with a beautiful body; graceful woman
• Oishee — Divine, of God; belonging to the divine
• Doyel — The Oriental Magpie Robin; national bird of Bangladesh
• Rimjhim — Sound of light rain; pitter-patter of monsoon

Where this comes from

Mahua has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.