Piyali

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “A flowering tree; one who is like a blossoming tree”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Mahua — Mahua flower and tree; sweet-flowering tree
• Pushpalata — Flowering creeper, garland of flowers
• Kusumavathi — Full of flowers, flowering
• Oliver — Possibly from Old Norse Óleifr ('ancestral' + 'relic'); popularly linked by folk etymology to the Latin word for olive tree
• Chandan — Meanings families give: Sandalwood; Sandalwood, the fragrant sacred tree; Sandalwood; fragrant and precious; Sandalwood, fragrant
• Parijat — the coral tree, Erythrina Indica (losing its leaves in June and then covered with large crimson flowers)

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

Piyali 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.