name
Skarma
SKAR-mah
ˈskɑːrmɑListen
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Syllable breakdown
Skarma
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Balti (Pakistan/India)
- Meaning
- a feminine name from the Balti people of Baltistan in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan and the Ladakh region of India, a Tibetan-related people whose language preserves archaic features of Classical Tibetan lost in modern central Tibetan dialects; Skarma is connected to the concept of the dawn star or auspicious radiance in Tibetan Buddhist cosmology, and it is given to girls born under favourable astrological circumstances as determined by a lama who consults classical astrological texts to identify the appropriate name for a child born on a particular day at a particular hour
- Gender
- female
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