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Nahla (name)
Nahla is a feminine given name of multiple origins. The name is of Arabic and African origin meaning ''first drink of water'' or ''water in the desert''. In Sanskrit, it means ''stem, hollow reed''. In Swahili and other languages spoken in countries of Africa, it means ''queen'', ''lion'' and '' successful woman''. Another variant is ''Nala''. This means 'gift' in Swahili. A descendant of the Arabic, "Naħla" means Bee in the Maltese language. Notable people with the given name, or its variants, include: *Nahlah Ayed, Canadian journalist *Nahla Chahal, Iraqi-Lebanese journalist and activist *Nala Damajanti, snake charmer *Nahla Mahmoud, Sudanese-British writer and activist *Nahla El Fatiha Naili, Algerian sculptor *Nahla Ramadan, Egyptian weightlifter *Nahla Hussain al-Shaly, Iraqi women's rights promoter *Nahla Summers, social campaigner Notable people with the surname include: *June-Rose Nala, South African trade unionist and academic References External links Babynames [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late Bronze Age. Sanskrit is the sacred language of Hinduism, the language of classical Hindu philosophy, and of historical texts of Buddhism and Jainism. It was a link language in ancient and medieval South Asia, and upon transmission of Hindu and Buddhist culture to Southeast Asia, East Asia and Central Asia in the early medieval era, it became a language of religion and high culture, and of the political elites in some of these regions. As a result, Sanskrit had a lasting impact on the languages of South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, especially in their formal and learned vocabularies. Sanskrit generally connotes several Old Indo-Aryan language varieties. The most archaic of these is the Vedic Sanskrit found in the Rig Veda, a colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
