Jaya

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from Sanskrit. India
  2. 2
    One of the demigod gatekeepers (the other being Vijaya) of the abode of Vishnu.
  3. 3
    The twenty-seventh year of the 60-year cycle of the Tamil calendar.

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit जय (jaya, literally “victory”).

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