Neeraj or Niraj (
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental syste ...
: नीरज ) is a Hindu masculine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
. The Sanskrit word ' is a
compound of ' 'water' and ' 'born' and has the primary meaning of
'lotus'.
The same Sanskrit word can also be a compound of ' 'without' (which takes the form ' because of
sandhi
Sandhi ( sa, सन्धि ' , "joining") is a cover term for a wide variety of sound changes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries. Examples include fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of one sound depending on near ...
with the following word) and ' 'dust', 'emotion', with the overall meaning 'free from dust' or 'free from passion'
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Indian masculine given names
Sanskrit-language names