Anirban

This article is about the name. For the ship, see BNS Anirban.

Anirban or Anirvan (Bengali: অনির্বাণ) is an Indian masculine given name. It is mostly used in the Bengali and Assamese languages. The meaning of the Sanskrit word anirvāṇa is "unextinguished".^[1] Notable people with this name include:

Anirvan (1896–1978), Hindu scholar
Anirban Chatterjee (bon 1982), Indian cricketer
Anirvan Ghosh, American neuroscientist
Anirban Lahiri (born 1987), Indian golfer

References

↑ Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English dictionary : etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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