Guru
Guru means Teacher, Jupiter, spiritual guide.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Kannada |
| Language | Kannada |
| Starts with | G |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Teacher, Jupiter, spiritual guide”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Sahil — Meanings families give: Shore, beach; Shore, the bank of a river or the ocean coast; Shore, bank; guide; Shore, guide, companion
- Aritra — Meanings families give: Navigator, guide; One who shows the path, navigator
- Parthasarathi — Meanings families give: Charioteer of Arjuna, Lord Krishna as divine guide; Charioteer of Partha, Krishna
- Acharya — Teacher, spiritual guide and preceptor
- Siddhi — Meanings families give: Achievement, supernatural power; Accomplishment, magical power; Achievement, attainment, success; Achievement, perfection, spiritual power
- Ruhan — Spiritual, soulful
More boys' names of Kannada origin
- Puneeth — Purified, holy, sacred
- Manjunatha — Lord of the misty peaks, Shiva
- Manjunath — Lord of the misty peaks, Shiva
- Shivakumar — Son of Shiva, the young lord
- Basavaraj — King among devotees of Basavanna
- Nagaraj — serpent-king
Where this comes from
Guru has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.