Why do a lot of Indian names end with 'ma'?

Question

For example, Karishma, Nishma, Anupama, Nilima, Nirupama, Poornima, Pratima, Seema, Sushma.

Is there any particular reason for this?

Just curious.

Thank you.

Hey! All I want to know is if there is any meaning attached to it. My name ends with 'ma' so I'm curious.

Hey! All I want to know is if there is any meaning attached to it. My name ends with 'ma' so I'm curious.

chandrasekharan k: I was not wondering whether it was general or not. I said 'a lot of' not 'all of'. I know nobody with the names I listed above. I was just curious as to why some names end like this, including mines.

Answer 1

Poornima - the night or day of full moon
Karishma - Miracle
Sima - Boundary or limit

You can ask your parents or elders who chose the name for you. They would definitely have a reason behind it. Other than that, these are the following reasons behind naming kids.

Ma means Mother in Hindi, or Am(Ma) in Tamil or south Indian languages. North Indian names would have Bhai(brother) or Ben(Sister), and South Indian names have Swamy(God or Lord) at the end of their names.

The purpose behind was to remind people of their family or God. Especially naming kids after God, was to remind the person's parents or elders to call the kids name. To call the kids name is to call the God at their death bed. So calling God's name was equivalent of praying to God, which would get the sick person to heal or to heaven(in the event of their death).

Hope this helps. A valuable question, which I have wondered myself, and hope the information I've gathered is answering your question.

Answer 2

Words Ending With Ma

Answer 3

It is your experience and that why it is correct for you to state this experience. But. This is not completely true.

Ma is a ending added to a name and meaning depends on the area, as you know that there are many languages spoken in India but there are 27 official once for original 26 provinces(states) plus English.

All of the above are feminine endings example Karish plus ma, if you were a boy it would have different ending. Ma in this case literally means mother(possibly but in general indicates that it is a female).

Here is an example in Gujarati, Doshabehn and Doshabhai, behn = sister, bhai = brother.

As you can see there are other endings too, same ending may have different meaning depending on the language.

Ask the person who named you about counterpart, male name and see if my interpretation is correct in their language.

Note :
In general Seema means boundary in lots of Indian languages, in this case ma is not and ending.

Poornima means (female) full moon, a boy will be call Poonumkumar or .....some other ending other then ma. This name is use without ending also so both male -female can have Poonum as their name.

Answer 4

The word 'MA' is always sentimental. In many regional language the word 'MA' comes when calling a mother.For example in Tamil it is am'MA' in Hindi it is 'MA'athaji. May be due to that!!!

Answer 5

Well , it has to do with the fact that most Indian names are of Sanskrit origin . They can be classified as :
* Tadbhava (तद्भव/تدبھو derived from): There are words that are derived from Sanskrit or Prakrit, but often with much transformation.

* Tatsama (तत्सम/تتسم identical): Words that are in exactly the same form as standard Sanskrit.

The names derived from Sanskrit ( Or any other language ) , were adopted into most of the Indian languages and these followed the rules of Sanskrit inflection and grammar . i.e different pronunciations and spellings for masculine , feminine and neutral objects . Which is analogous to an example like : ladka(boy) and ladki (girl) .


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Answer 6

no there is not a particular reason for that.actually in hindi.(which is the mother tounge of india) ''ma'' means mother according to indians mother plays a great role in man's life from the born of the child 2 till his death.so,that is the reason that indians give lots of respects to hismothers.and like to add ''ma'' after her daughters name.(binny kalia-INDIA.)
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Answer 7

That's not important, my name ends with 'na'

Answer 8

Apparently you only know people whose names end with 'ma'. there is not reason

Answer 9

no..there is no reason that all the peples names end with'ma'...it's just a plain coincidence....but tell u the truth...i never noticed the thing about 'ma' ....it's fascinating...LOL ;)

Answer 10

Scripting-theory is a complete failure and doesn't impresses. Argues provided by the promoters of this theory are just lame. Just because someone thinks that a particular tournament is scripted doesn't make a tournament scripted. Where are the evidences? Answer is no evidences they have except some funny arguments like:- IPL is damn fixed because its sixth version was meant for a grand send off to Sachin?? lololololol. Yes there was spot-fixing in IPL by three players (yes may be two three more) but scripting a tournament??? hahaha Logically scripting a popular tournament is near to impossible, but yes less popular tournaments like SLPL can be fixed, because the focus they get is very low. Indian Premier League is being followed by huge mass. Everything is on limelight. Anything scripted will be easily noticed by former cricketers, experts and sports-editors. But some people think that their cricketing sense is better than the former cricketers. We all know that there are many cocky former cricketers who will never spare anything if they found unorthodox, but I haven't seen any cricketer/media experts that IPL is scripted. Yes, as I already said spot fixing may be there which is completely different thing. Multi-nations' Cricketers are participating in IPL, its hard to execute a scripting plan and to keep it under the curtain when the participants are from different-different communities. Even team consisting players from different parts of world fails to win due to lack of communication and scripting a match successfully isn't a feasible thing in my point of view. Bookmakers will never fix the whole match. Spot fixing is the easiest type of fixing. The modern face of fixing is Spot-fixing, which is quite easier then Match-Fixing for Bookies to execute and same time hard to trace. Just fix few no-balls, wides or specific small action of players and you've done. Fixing match results is extreme risky and easily noticeable. Apart from the frustrated-losing side fans there are also a brigade of Haters who keep dis-reputing the game on non-stop basis for whole two months of play. Their own private leagues failed to bring people, so no wonder they don't like Indian league. Additionally, there are some T20 haters too who are too old to accept the change in game. They cant see people enjoying on sixes and cricketers earning so heavily first time in history of cricket. Those who accuse IPL to be scripted have no factual information except doubting close-encounters. If on the basis of some close-encounters, A tournament is being targeted, than its ironical, truly ironical. Scripting the tournament needs huge level of communication among more than 100 players directly or Indirectly. Till today, Delhi police have found 0(zero) numbers of call/meetings suggesting that players were framing any story for fixing the plots & storyline of matches before actual gameplay. So there is no scripting of whole or of segments (at-least till now). If a player XYZ was disloyal with an organization "A", then why he cant be disloyal with organization "B". Its not like players cant betray their motherland. We have seen lot of fixing in International cricket. So international cricket is not fixing-proof. If a player fixes matches here, then why he can fix matches there. A honest will be always honest and a dishonest will be always dishonest. One more thing is, it cant be IPL who scripts its matches, its player who can script the matches, so all blame goes to players who took part, because they play on ground and I have never seen the man "IPL" in real. So if someone wants to bash IPL, he should rather bash the players who took part and performed scripting lolol Aseed, you have wonderfully proved that any tournament can be proven fixed on the grounds of happening of unlikely unexpected events. We all know that entertainment is no barometer to check fixing. Because this is the one of the most popular old saying "Cricket is a game of uncertainties." But its irony that if something unexpected happens, people starts calling it fix?? I don't know whether I should laugh or cry lolol... I too said some days ago, if someone can prove that IPL is scripted than I can prove any tournament scripted, and I am still standing on my words. If someone has any evidences than please provide otherwise there is no sense in calling a tournament or its segments scripted.