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Jyotsna

Moonlight

Jyotsna means “Moonlight”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
J
Historical records
2,906

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Jyotsna mean?

Sanskrit derives jyotsnā from jyotis, light. The feminine noun denotes both moonlight and a night bright with moonlight.

Pronunciation

IAST: jyotsnā

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

ज्योत्स्ना

Letter-by-letter: jyotsnā

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Jyotsna in Indian usage

2,906 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Jyotsna: records by birth decade1960s: 2201960s1970s: 4791970s1980s: 1,1481980s1990s: 9111990sOther decades: 148Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1960s220
1970s479
1980s1,148
1990s911
Other decades148

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Andhra Pradesh1,255
Delhi1,103
Goa189
Kerala106
Other states253
How to read these numbers

Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.

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Sources

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, jyotsnā, p. 427,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Wiktionary: ज्योत्स्ना ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

  4. Monier-Williams, jyotis, p. 427,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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