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Aritra
अरित्रSay it o-RI-tro
- Meaning today
- Navigator, one who shows the right path
- Original meaning
- "propelling, driving; an oar (Bengali: a boat's helm, rudder)" Monier-Williams, p. 88
- Say it
- o-RI-tro
- Written
- अरित्र
- Other spellings
- Aritro, Oritro
- First sound
- अ · Mesh rashi
Aritra
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Aritra meaning
Aritra (अरित्र) is a Hindu boy's name of Sanskrit origin (Bengali usage). By its first sound, अ, it is a Mesh rashi name (Krittika nakshatra) in the North Indian table.
Meaning today
Navigator, one who shows the right path
Original Sanskrit (Bengali usage) meaning
"propelling, driving; an oar (Bengali: a boat's helm, rudder)"
Source: Monier-Williams, Sanskrit–English Dictionary (1899), p. 88 · entry aritra · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026
Aritra (अरित्र) is a Bengali boys' name from Sanskrit aritra. Monier-Williams gives it as "propelling, driving" and as "an oar", a word used as early as the Rigveda, and the Samsad Bengali dictionary gives the helm or rudder of a boat. Name lists today translate Aritra as "navigator" or "one who shows the right path"; that is a figurative reading of the rudder that steers a boat rather than a dictionary sense. In Bengali it is pronounced with an opening o, hence the spelling Oritro.
References: Monier-Williams, aritra, p. 88 · Samsad Bengali–English Dictionary, aritra, p. 74
Fits your syllable
First sound अ
Krittika nakshatra, pada 1 · Mesh rashi
North Indian table. Tables vary by region and family tradition, so confirm with your priest.
Spellings
Aritra · Aritro · Oritro