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Priya

Priya proper noun: a female given name from India. A common Hindu female name which means beloved. It is usually used in conjunction with another name, mostly those of gods to imply "beloved of ________".

Proper noun

Priya

  1. A female given name from India. A common Hindu female name which means beloved. It is usually used in conjunction with another name, mostly those of gods to imply "beloved of ________".
    • Fittingly, I enjoyed those warm and crunchy-tender Korean rice cakes beneath slightly salty ham and a drizzle of floral honey with my colleague Priya Krishna, who first put me on to the rice-cake fundido at Haenyeo in Park Slope, Brooklyn, back in 2019.2022 October 4, Nikita Richardson, “Rice Cakes, Rice Rolls, Rice Sweets”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2022
  2. Hindu surname.

Origin of Priya

From Sanskrit प्रिया (priyā). Doublet of Frigg (and variants).

Questions about Priya

What does Priya mean?
Priya means a female given name from India. A common Hindu female name which means beloved. It is usually used in conjunction with another name, mostly those of gods to imply "beloved of ________".
What part of speech is Priya?
Priya is a proper noun.

Words near Priya in the dictionary

  1. privy-house
  2. privy-houses
  3. prix
  4. prix fixe
  5. prix fixes
  6. Priya
  7. Priyadarshini
  8. Priyanka
  9. priyome
  10. prizable
  11. prize

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