Message: "My name is Harini"

My name is Harini

by yenrab

10/5/2005, 8:21 PM

Hi everyone . My name is Harini. It is a Maori( New Zealand indigenous people) name . I was named after my great grandmother. The meaning of the name translates to sardine....although when people ask what my name means I like to tell them it means "She who must be obeyed "..lol.
What I would like to know is if my name has any other meaning in other countries. I have been told it is a name that has meaning in India...does anyone know? Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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- yenrab

10/7/2005, 6:40 PM

Thanks for the comments so far

- drsheetal +1

10/6/2005, 2:30 PM

Hi !
Your name in India means a doe- female of a deer or related animal,female of various mammals such as goat,kangaroo, hare etc

- তন্ময় ভট (guest)

10/6/2005, 8:34 PM

The original root is probably a lost hR, but there are a lot of ancient words related to the phoneme hari meaning yellowish or yellowish-green in Sanskrit, and with good cognates in Indo-european (in fact yellow is a cognate). hariNI meant a deer and that included a lot (including antelopes and beautiful young human females :-), but I doubt that ever included a female kangaroo! (or a goat or hare for that matter) unless that is a recent development in some modern Indian language.

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