Parijat

Q: What does the name Parijat mean?

Parijat means "the coral tree, Erythrina Indica (losing its leaves in June and then covered with large crimson flowers)". It is a girl's name of Bengali origin.

Q: What is the classical Sanskrit origin of Parijat?

पारिजात (pārijāta): the coral tree, Erythrina Indica (losing its leaves in June and then covered with large crimson flowers), per the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Parijat means the coral tree, Erythrina Indica (losing its leaves in June and then covered with large crimson flowers).

Meaning: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Gender	girl
Origin	Bengali
Language	Bengali
Starts with	P

Classical Sanskrit origin

पारिजात (pārijāta): the coral tree, Erythrina Indica (losing its leaves in June and then covered with large crimson flowers).

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 “the coral tree, Erythrina Indica (losing its leaves in June and then covered with large crimson flowers)”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Parijata — the coral tree, Erythrina Indica (losing its leaves in June and then covered with large crimson flowers)
Mandara — (in some meanings also written ) the coral tree, Erythrina Indica (also regarded as one of the 5 trees of paradise or Svarga)
Pallavi — Meanings families give: New leaves, bud; New leaves, tender green shoots; New leaves, young sprouts; New leaves, fresh sprouting
Pavalamani — Pearl coral jewel
Praval — Coral, brave and courageous like the precious stone
Vipul — n. large, extensive, wide, great, thick, long (also of time), abundant, numerous, important, loud (as a noise), noble (as a race)

More girls' names of Bengali origin

Shiuli — Night jasmine flower; fragrant autumn bloom
Oishee — Divine, of God; belonging to the divine
Doyel — The Oriental Magpie Robin; national bird of Bangladesh
Brishti — Rain; the blessed monsoon rains
Mili — To meet, to unite
Reeya — Singer; one with a melodious voice

Where this comes from

Parijat'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.