Indian Names · Girl
Malini name meaning
“garlanded”
- Letters
- 6
- Syllables
- 3●●●
- First letter
- M
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- Category
- Indian Names
- Gender
- ♀ Girl
- Devanagari scriptमालिनी
Malini is a female name from Sanskrit mālinī, meaning 'garlanded'.
What does Malini mean?
About the name Malini
Malini is borrowed from Sanskrit mālinī, 'the garlanded one', a woman wearing a garland. In Sanskrit mālinī is also a name of the goddess Durga and of a verse metre, and can mean a female florist; in Hindi it also means a female gardener.
| Gender | ♀ Girl |
|---|---|
| Origin | Sanskrit |
| Syllables | Ma-li-ni |
| First letter | Indian Names starting with M |
| Devanagari script | मालिनी |
|---|
Sources
- Wiktionary: मालिनी · en.wiktionary.org · origin
- Wiktionary: Malini · en.wiktionary.org · origin
- Wisdom Library: Malini · wisdomlib.org · meaning
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