Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🧑‍🎓 A woman's name 🛕 Living goddess 👧 Miss (title)
Kumari

Kumari

1 7.9
A common female name or family name in South Asia
  • proper noun
translation icon : Kumari
  • I feared that Bhookh Kumari would hear my thoughts and say: "What a wild imagination!"
  • Ms. Kumari

I think I used Titus, Kumari and Oren a lot, and I would switch.

Examples

  • Every night, I wait for the dream in which Bhookh Kumari will appear to me again, and I give her my answer.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • My friend Kumari will join us for dinner this evening.

  • Bhookh Kumari was waiting for my response to her offer of help.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • "Say something, Bhookh Kumari," I said.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Bhookh Kumari must have seen me many times.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Bhookh Kumari's big eyes had become even more luminous.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • It must have struck Bhookh Kumari as ridiculous, since she burst out laughing.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Poor dear Bhookh Kumari!

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The glow in Bhookh Kumari's eyes was undiminished.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Meena Kumari is famous for playing grief-stricken parts that mirrored the sufferings in her private life.

    Blog text (32)

Surface Forms

Kumari main

Etymology

Kumari is also a common female name and surname in South Asia, from Sanskrit kumārī 'young girl'. It is the feminine form of the common name Kumar, so families often choose it for daughters.