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Yajat
यजतSay it YUH-jut
- Meaning today
- Sacred, worthy, worshipper
- Original meaning
- "worthy of worship, adorable, holy, sublime; a priest; the moon" Monier-Williams, p. 839
- Say it
- YUH-jut
- Written
- यजत
- Other spellings
- Yajath
Yajat
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Yajat meaning
Yajat (यजत) is a Hindu boy's name of Sanskrit origin.
Worthy of worship, adorable, holy, sublime; a priest; the moon
Also used to mean: sacred, worshipper
Yajat (यजत) is the Sanskrit yajata, from yaj, "to worship, to offer sacrifice", the root of yajña and yajamāna. Monier-Williams gives it as worthy of worship, adorable, holy and sublime, an epithet of the gods in the Ṛg-veda, and notes that it matches Avestan yazata, the word for the venerable divine beings of Zoroastrian tradition. As a noun it can mean a priest or the moon, and the lexicographers add a name of Shiva; a seer of the Ātreya family called Yajata composed two hymns of the Ṛg-veda. Name lists give it as "sacred", "worthy" or "worshipper", close to the dictionary's "worthy of worship".
Source: Monier-Williams, Sanskrit–English Dictionary (1899), p. 839 · entry yajata · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026
References: Monier-Williams, yajata, p. 839
Fits your syllable
First sound य
Jyeshtha nakshatra, pada 2 · Vrishchik rashi
This exact sound isn't in the table; the closest is या, which differs only in vowel length. North Indian table. Tables vary by region and family tradition, so confirm with your priest.
Spellings
Yajat · Yajath