Neeraj

Neeraj is a Hindi name which comes originally from Sanskrit. This word "Neeraj" is made up (Sandhi) of two words in Sanskrit.

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Neer means "Water" and the J means "To take birth from". So the meaning of the combined word becomes

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the One who takes birth from water.

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There could be different things which take birth from water like fish, plants etc. but this word

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is only for a holy flower called Lotus ("Kamal" in Hindi).

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Name: A name is a label for a thing, person, place, product (as in a brand name) and even an idea or concept, normally used to distinguish one from another. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. A name for a specific individual or ...

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Sandhi: Sandhi is a cover term for a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries. Examples include the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words. It occurs particula...