name
Gitanjali
gee-TAN-jah-lee
/ɡiːˈtɑːndʒɑːliː/Listen
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Syllable breakdown
gitanjali
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Assamese/Bengali/Sanskrit (South Asia); title of Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel-winning poetry collection
- Meaning
- Song offerings; a collection of devotional hymns
- Gender
- female
- Also spelled
- Gitanjaly, Geetanjali
Pronunciation tips
Four syllables; stress the second; 'gi' = 'gee'; 'jali' = 'jah-lee'; the name is famous due to Tagore's 1910 work
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