Chandra means 'moon' in Sanskrit?

[aion]

http://mizian.com.ne.kr/englishwiz/library/names/etymology_of_first_names.htm

[Kire]

1. Who's Chandra?

[wake.up.america]

2. great! A lot of people speak Sanskrit. Worth learning

[fujiyama]

3. Yes

It does mean moon.

It's not the just name of a murdered intern that had an affair with former congressman Gary Condit.

[Dudley_DUright]

4. or the name of the X-ray space telescope

http://chandra.harvard.edu/

[entanglement]

7. The telescope's namesake was a great astrophysicist...

http://chandra.harvard.edu/about/chandra.html

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

5. My real name means " spice " in Sanskrit .

I feel special ;)

[jmatthan]

6. Chandra is a very common Indian name

usually given to women.

As Chandrashekar, it becomes a surname of a community - the Shekar community.

Also Surya, meaning Sun is a very common Indian ladies name.

All Indian names have their origin in Sanskrit.

My Indian name, Sushil, means Good, Ranjit means Victory, etc., ...

[Ouabache]

8. What are the Sanskrit names/words for 'beloved' and 'grace'

any idea? Would they be used as names? m or f ?

[jmatthan]

10. Beloved and Grace

Kanta means beloved, common female name.

Added as kant or kanto as Chandrakanta for beloved moon

Several words for grace - common one for grace is Kripa.

Laxmi is also another word for grace - but in a specific context and can be used for male and female.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. How about Chandralekha? What's that mean?

Gods, what a choreographer.

http://www.lifepositive.com/Mind/arts/performing-arts/chandralekha.asp

[jmatthan]

14. Lekha means

Writing and picture

Chandralekha could have a combined word meaning of grace, but I am not quite sure.

[ZombieNixon]

12. Not just given to women.

Check my family. My aunt, named Chandra, is married to my uncle-by-marriage, who is also named Chandra.

On a tangent: my parents. My last name is *******swamy (I don't wanna make it too easy for you to find me), which is the same spelling my dad uses. On the other hand my mother spells her name *******swami, because that was her name before they were married and what's the point in changing one letter? People keep asking me if this is a male/female thing, which pisses me off, b/c in Sanskrit, there's only one spelling. It's the Romanization.

[Tripper11]

9. Didn't Dr. Chandra create HAL from 2001? Or 2010 or something? n/t

[tjdee]

13. In hindi I believe it's chadni.

I think. I've heard it lots of times, may be "moonlight" though.

Interesting how words change but stay similar in different languages.