Urvashi
Urvashi means Meanings families give: Celestial dancer, most beautiful apsara; Celestial beauty, divine and heavenly maiden.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Punjabi |
| Language | Hindi / Punjabi |
| Starts with | U |
In the epics
Urvashi appears in the Mahābhārata as a other: Along with Purvachitti, marvelled at Shuka as he passed Mount Malaya.
Source: Drimigo Scripture KG (CC BY 4.0). Many characters share a name across the epics — this is one notable figure who bore it, not a claim about the name's only meaning.
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Celestial dancer, most beautiful apsara; Celestial beauty, divine and heavenly maiden”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Revathi — Meanings families give: Star Revati, prosperous; Prosperity, wealthy, last nakshatra; Prosperous, the last star, Apsara; A star, prosperity, wealth
- Rambha — Celestial dancer, apsara of heaven
- Tilottama — Made of sesame, divine apsara
- Azra — Chaste, virgin, pure maiden
- Chanu — Beautiful maiden
- Kumari — Meanings families give: Maiden, young girl, virgin; Young girl, daughter, princess; Young girl, princess, goddess; Young girl, maiden, princess
Where this comes from
Urvashi 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.