Manika
Manika means a jewel, gem, precious stone.
Meaning: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Telugu |
| Language | Telugu |
| Starts with | M |
Classical Sanskrit origin
मणिक (maṇika): a jewel, gem, precious stone.
Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “a jewel, gem, precious stone”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Meenal — Meanings families give: A precious stone, turquoise, gem; Precious blue stone, gem
- Meena — Fish, a star, precious stone
- Suryakanta — ‘sun-loved’, the sun-stone, sun-crystal (a kind of crystal supposed to possess fabulous properties as giving out heat when exposed to the sun; there is a corresponding moonstone See -; also -)
- Ratna — Meanings families give: Jewel, gem, precious stone; Gem, jewel, precious stone
- Paras — Philosopher's stone, touch that transforms to gold
- Firoz — Victorious, turquoise stone, Gulf Kerala name
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Where this comes from
Manika's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). 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.