Silpa

Silpa means Craft, art; the artist.

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OriginBengali
LanguageBengali
Starts withS

Classical Sanskrit origin

शिल्प (śilpa): skill in any art or craft or work of art, ingenuity, contrivance.

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 “Craft, art; the artist”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

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Where this comes from

Silpa'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.