Given name · Bengali
মাহতাব
“moonlight”
মাহতাব (mahotab) is a masculine given name from Classical Persian, meaning “moonlight.” It is used in Bengali.
BengaliWritten in Bengali script. In English: mahotab.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Classical Persian ماهتاب (māhtāb, “moonlight”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
মাহতাব’s family of names
In Bengali usage, মাহতাব shares a linguistic root with the Turkish form MEHTAP. In Bengali usage, মাহতাব can be written in the Roman alphabet as mahotab. In Bengali usage, মাহতাব shares an earlier linguistic root with মাস.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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