Parijat

Classical Sanskrit origin

पारिजात (pārijāta): the coral tree, Erythrina Indica (losing its leaves in June and then covered with large crimson flowers).

Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.

Names with a similar meaning

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

• Mahua — Mahua flower and tree; sweet-flowering tree
• Piyali — A flowering tree; one who is like a blossoming tree
• Pushpalata — Flowering creeper, garland of flowers
• Kusumavathi — Full of flowers, flowering
• Yasmin — Jasmine flower, fragrant
• Jasmine — Jasmine flower, fragrant, graceful

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

Parijat's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). 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.