Nanda
नन्दनन्दा
Sanskrit for "joy": नन्द (Nanda) for boys and नन्दा (Nandā), with a lengthened final vowel, for girls.
Meaning and origin
Nanda comes from a Sanskrit word for joy and has travelled with Hinduism and Buddhism across South and Southeast Asia for centuries, picking up local spellings along the way in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Odia, Nepali…
How to pronounce Nanda
| Hindi | nund /nən̪d̪/ |
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