Tushar
Tushar means sg. and pl. frost, cold, snow, mist, dew, thin rain.
Meaning: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Marathi |
| Language | Hindi / Marathi |
| Starts with | T |
Classical Sanskrit origin
तुषार (tuṣāra): sg. and pl. frost, cold, snow, mist, dew, thin rain.
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.
Traditional associations
In Hindu tradition, names are sometimes chosen by the baby's rashi (moon sign) or nakshatra (birth star). This is cultural tradition, not a rule. Traditional rashi (by first letter, as commonly listed in this corpus) — not a personalized astrological reading, and not the same as the traditional first-syllable (akshara) method some families use.
- Rashi: Vrishabh
- Nakshatra: Rohini
- More names starting with T
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “sg. and pl. frost, cold, snow, mist, dew, thin rain”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Hima — frost, hoar-frost, snow (rarely ‘ice’)
- Hemant — Meanings families give: Winter, the cold season, golden and of early winter; Gold, winter season; Winter season; golden
- Mahika — Meanings families give: Earth, dew drops; Earth, mist, dew
- Mihika — mist
- Niharika — Meanings families give: Dew drops, nebula; Dew drops, mist, galaxy; Dewdrops, morning dew
- Thushara — Snow, dew, white
More boys' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Marathi origin
- Rohan — a means of ascending
- Gaurav — Meanings families give: Pride, honor and dignity that inspires respect; Pride, honor, prestige, glory; Pride, honour, respect
- Aniket — Meanings families give: Lord of the world, one who has no fixed abode; Homeless wanderer, Lord Shiva
- Keshav — Meanings families give: One with beautiful long hair, name of Vishnu-Krishna; Lord Krishna, one with long or beautiful hair
- Harsha — joy, pleasure, happiness (also personified as a son of Dharma)
- Nitin — Meanings families give: One who follows the correct path, righteous person; Master of right path, leader
Other names under Vrishabh rashi
- Vihaan — Meanings families give: Dawn, morning; Dawn, morning, beginning; Dawn, beginning of new era; Dawn, morning, beginning of light
- Vamika — Meanings families give: Goddess Durga, moving to the left; Goddess Parvati, another name for Durga
- Vivaan — Meanings families give: Full of life; Full of life, rays of the morning sun; Full of life, Sun; Full of life, sunrise
- Viaan — Meanings families give: Full of life, energy; Full of energy, lively, animated
- Tara — n. a star
- Vedant — Meanings families give: Ultimate knowledge; End of Vedas, the Upanishads and highest knowledge; Ultimate wisdom, end of the Vedas; Ultimate knowledge; Vedanta philosophy; Ultimate knowledge, Vedas; Ultimate knowledge, Vedanta philosophy
Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Vrishabh names.
Where this comes from
Tushar'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.