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Names starting with Pha

फा (Pha) is the naming syllable of Purva Ashadha nakshatra, pada 3, in Dhanu rashi. These are the 7 names in Kalava's list that begin with it, each with its meaning as the Sanskrit dictionary prints it.

Girls · 2 Boys · 4 A girl or a boy · 1

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  1. Fani फणी attested

    N. of a river

    phaṇī · MW 716,2

  2. Phalahari फलहारी attested

    a name of the Goddess (Devi)

    phalahārī · MW 717,1

    Known only from the old word-lists, not from literature.

Boys4

  1. Phani फणी attested

    ‘hooded’, a serpent (esp. Coluber Naga)

    phaṇin · MW 716,2 · Apte 783

  2. Phala फाल attested

    a name of Shiva; a ploughshare

    phāla · MW 717,3 · Apte 785

  3. Phanadhara फणधर attested

    a name of Shiva; = phaṇakara: a serpent, snake (esp. the Coluber Naga)

    phaṇadhara · MW 716,1

    Known only from the old word-lists, not from literature.

  4. Fanta फाण्ट attested

    obtained by straining or filtering

    phāṇṭa · MW 718,2 · Apte 784

    Masculine in Sanskrit, but given mostly to girls; the dictionary has the word, but never as anybody's name.

A girl or a boy1

  1. Palasakar फालसकर compound

    a ploughshare + having rays, full of rays

    phāla + sakara · MW 717,3; 1123,3

What the grades mean
attested
The name is a word in Monier-Williams' Sanskrit dictionary, and the meaning is the dictionary's own.
compound
Two dictionary words joined; the meaning gives both halves.
regional
Not a Sanskrit word as it is written, but long given in Indian families: it is in the Indian electoral rolls. A Tamil or Malayalam form of a Sanskrit name says so, and takes that word's meaning.
modern coinage
Not a Sanskrit word and not in the rolls: a recent name, seen in US or UK birth registers.

MW is Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), by page and column; Apte is The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1890), by page. Where a name is not a Sanskrit word, its Devanagari is worked out from the English spelling.

The four padas of Purva Ashadha: भू Bhu · धा Dha · फा Pha · ढा Dha

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Meanings from Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), and Apte, The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1890), as digitised by the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries, CC BY-SA 4.0. Popularity from the US Social Security Administration (public domain), the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0) and Indian electoral-roll first names (Chintalapati, Laohaprapanon and Sood, CC0). Kalava's names data is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. The licence. This page is shared under the same licence.