Kurinji
Kurinji means Hill flower, Kurinji ecosystem.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Dravidian |
| Language | Tamil |
| Starts with | K |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Hill flower, Kurinji ecosystem”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Kurinjimalar — Hill flower, Kurinji bloom
- Venkatesh — Meanings families give: Lord of the Venkata hill; Lord of Venkata hill, Vishnu
- Venkata — Name of a hill, Venkateswara
- Manali — A bird; hill station of the mind
- Govardhan — Meanings families give: Mountain lifted by Krishna to shelter the villagers; Lifter of Govardhan hill, protector
- Venkataraman — Meanings families give: Lord Vishnu of Venkata hill; Rama of Venkata, Vishnu
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Where this comes from
Kurinji 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.