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Orissa

Orissa proper noun: former name of Odisha: A state in eastern India.

Proper noun

Orissa

  1. Former name of Odisha: A state in eastern India.
    • The firſt had conſtantly reſided with his father at Cuttack, the capital of Oriſſa, and the other, with his grandfather at Morſhadabad.1765, John Zephaniah Holwell, Interesting Historical Events, Relative to the Provinces of Bengal, and the Empire of Indostan: With a Seasonable Hint and Perswasive to the …, volume 1, T. Becket and...
    • THAT as the different Provincial Councils, eſtabliſhed in the ſaid Provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Oriſſa, had been ever ſince their Eſtabliſhment accuſtomed to refer Cauſes of great Moment and Importance, particularly [...]1787, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Articles of Charge of High Crimes and miſdemeanors, against …, J. Debrett, page 53

Orissa meaning in Hindi

Orissa in Hindi

उड़ीसा

Examples of Orissa in a sentence

  • "The languages spoken here are various, as there are Hindoos from every country in India: but the two chief languages in use by those who are resident, are the Orissa and the Telinga.1811, Claudius Buchanan, Christian Researches in Asia: With Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures Into the Oriental Languages, 2...
  • The English Government has respected the patrimony of Jagannáth not less scrupulously than it has conserved the general religious endowments of Orissa.1872, William Wilson Hunter, Orissa: Or the Vicissitudes of an Indian Province Under Native and British Rule, Elder and Company, page 122:
  • The ancient Kalinga, the fame of which, at one time, spread over the entire South Asia lies now partly in Andhra and partly in Orissa.1964, Nabin Kumar Sahu, Utkal University History Of Orissa, volume 1, The Utkal University, page 3:
  • It was under the Ganga rule that the Oriya language as an Oriya vernacular became the dominant medium of communication in Orissa.2008, Orissa: An Encyclopaedia of Events, 2 edition, Sankalpa Publications, page 12:

Origin of Orissa

Borrowed from Odia ଓଡ଼ିଶା (oṛiśā), in turn Derived from Sanskrit ओड्रदेश (oḍradeśa, literally “land of the Odras”), a compound of ओड्र (oḍra, “Odra”) + देश (deśa, “land, country”).

Questions about Orissa

What does Orissa mean?
Orissa means former name of Odisha: A state in eastern India.
What is Orissa in Hindi?
Orissa in Hindi is उड़ीसा. See Orissa meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Orissa in a sentence?
"The languages spoken here are various, as there are Hindoos from every country in India: but the two chief languages in use by those who are resident, are the Orissa and the Telinga.
What part of speech is Orissa?
Orissa is a proper noun.

Words near Orissa in the dictionary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Orissa (page history and authors); Orissa (Hindi Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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