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The churel is known as the Pichal Peri in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, Petni/Shakchunni in the Bengal region, and Pontianak in Malaysia and Indonesia. The word "churel" is also often used colloquially or mistakenly for a witch in India and Pakistan. [2] Churel have remained prevalent in modern-day literature, cinema, television, and ...
Kamala (name) Kamala is a Sanskrit word meaning lotus. [1][2] It is used as a feminine given name in Indian culture, predominantly by Hindu families, as it is one of the names of the goddess Lakshmi, who appears from the centre of a lotus. [3] The masculine counterpart Kamal is a given name for Indian boys.
Maya is a female name in various languages with various meanings. Originally from Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language, Māyā means "illusion or magic", and is an alternate name of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. [ 1 ] In the Tupi language, of southern Brazil, it means "mother", while Mayara means "grandmother". [ 2 ]
A tawaif was a highly successful courtesan singer ‚ dancer ‚ and poet who catered to the nobility of the Indian subcontinent, particularly during the Mughal era. Many tawaifs (nautch girls to the British) were forced to go into prostitution due to a lack of opportunities by the time of the British Raj. [1][page needed]
Dhar is a surname commonly found among the Hindu Bengali Kayastha community in West Bengal, India. [1] [2] Dhar or Dar is also used by some Kashmiri clans and communities [3] [4] [5] native to the Kashmir Valley in Jammu and Kashmir, India, and common today [3] among Kashmiri Hindus [6] and Kashmiri Muslims.
First names. Many people in Bangladesh and West Bengal have two given names: a "good name" (Bengali: ভালো নাম, romanized: bhalo nam), which is used on all legal documents, and a "call name" or "nickname" (Bengali: ডাক নাম, romanized: dak nam), which is used by family members and close friends. The two names may or may ...
Karva Chauth or Karwa Chauth or Karaka Chaturthi (Sanskrit: करकचतुर्थी, romanized: Karakacaturthī) [3] is a Rajput Hindu festival celebrated by Hindu women of Northern and Western India in October or November on the Hindu lunar month of Kartika. [4] Like many Hindu festivals, Karva Chauth is based on a lunisolar variant of ...
It is cognate with "baba" in Slavic languages, and ultimately with "papa" in Germanic and Romance languages. In Nepali, Hindi / Bihari, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Bengali, Telugu, and Odia languages, it is a means of calling with love and affection to spouses or younger brothers, sons, grandsons etc. It can be found in the urban trend to call "babu ...