Amita is a female given name of Indian, Hebrew and Italian origin. The name means "infinite, boundless" in
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural ...
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and "truth" in
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...
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List of people with the given name Amita
* Amita, mother of
Yasodharā
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Amita Aggarwal
Amita Aggarwal (born 1960) is an Indian clinical immunologist, rheumatologist and a Professor and Head at the Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology of the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. Known for ...
(born 1960), Indian immunologist, rheumatologist, and professor
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Amita Berthier (born 2000), Singaporean fencer
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Amita Bhushan
Amita Bhushan (born 5 February 1970) is an Indian politician, representing the Begusarai constituency on a Congress ticket in the Bihar Vidhan Sabha since 2015, her first stint as MLA. She is a member of Indian National Congress. Born and broug ...
(born 1970), Indian politician
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Amita Dhiri (born 1966), English actress
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Amita Kanekar (born 1965), Indian writer
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Amita Kuttner
Amita (Avi) Kuttner ( ; born December 4, 1990) is a Canadian astrophysicist, actor, and politician who served as the interim leader of the Green Party of Canada from November 24, 2021, to November 19, 2022. Kuttner first ran for office in the 2 ...
(born 1990), Canadian astrophysicist and politician
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Amita Malik
Amita Malik (1921 – 20 February 2009) was an Indian media critic. She was described by ''Time'' magazine as India's "most prominent film and television critic," dubbed the "first lady of Indian media" and "India's best known cinema comment ...
(1921-2009), Indian film critic
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Amita Sehgal
Amita Sehgal is a molecular biologist and chronobiologist in the Department of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Sehgal was involved in the discovery of ''Drosophila'' TIM and many other important ...
, Indian molecular biologist and chronobiologist
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Amita Sharma
Amita Sharma (born 12 September 1982) is an Indian former cricketer who played primarily as a right-arm medium-fast bowler. She appeared in five Test matches, 116 One Day Internationals and 41 Twenty20 Internationals for India from 2002 till 2 ...
(born 1982), Indian cricketer
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Amita Suman
Amita Suman (, born 19 July 1997) is a British actress. She stars as Inej Ghafa in the Netflix fantasy series '' Shadow and Bone'' (2021–2023). She had a recurring role in the CW series '' The Outpost'' (2019–2021).
Early life
Suman was b ...
(born 1997), British-Nepalese actress
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Amita Young
Amita Marie "Tata" Young (; born 14 December 1980) is a Thai singer, actress and model who gained prominence in Thailand when she placed first in a national singing contest at age 11, subsequently signing a record deal and releasing her first a ...
(born 1980), Thai singer, actress, and model.
Fictional characters
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Amita Ramanujan
Amita Ramanujan, Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., is a fictional character from the CBS crime drama ''Numb3rs'', played by Navi Rawat. Over the course of the series, she has become a professor at CalSci and has since become romantically involved with ...
, fictional mathematician in the television series ''Numb3rs''
* Amita, fictional character in the video game ''
Far Cry 4
''Far Cry 4'' is a 2014 first-person shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the successor to the 2012 video game '' Far Cry 3'', and the fourth main installment in the '' Far Cry'' series. Set in the fiction ...
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See also
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Amit (disambiguation)
Amit is a Hindu and Jewish given name and a Jewish surname.
In Hindi, Amit (, means "infinite" or "boundless", ) originates from the Sanskrit word ' (अमित:), ' (अमित:) essentially is the negation of ' (मित), which means "t ...
, a male given name
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Anita (given name)
Anita is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are now common worldwide, especially in regions where Indo-European languages are spoken, namely Europe, Iran, South Asia, and North America. Anita is a short form of the ancient Persian na ...
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Amy
References
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Indian feminine given names
Feminine given names
Hebrew feminine given names