मोतिहारी mōtihārī
‘Pearl Garland’ City, Bihar (Bih)
From Hin: mōtī, ‘pearl’; hāra ‘garland’, ‘necklace’
The town was named after the Moti Jheel [Hin: jhīla, ‘lake’], a horsehoe-shaped lake which divides the town into two. and looks like a necklace.
George Orwell, writer of ‘Homage to Catalonia’, ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’. was born here in 1903.
For related place names see Indian Place names and Bihar place names.
