Poonawalla surname meaning

Word history

Wiktionary records पूनावाला (pūnāvālā) as a Hindi surname. The entry explains a compound of Pūnā, Poona, with the ending -vālā. पूना is the cited place-name form, while पूनावाला is the derived surname. The Latin spelling Poonawalla represents the long vowel and later ending without marking them as in scholarly transliteration. The geographic word history does not identify an individual’s birthplace or a household’s migration route.

Sources: Wiktionary contributors · Hindi entry, etymology and surname sense

Literal dictionary sense

Native-script forms

Spelling variants

Poonawala.

Place name

Poona (Pune) · पूना.

Wiktionary · place-name derivation

Sources and attribution

• Wiktionary contributors · Hindi entry, etymology and surname sense

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