Sana
सनाradiance or praise, depending on derivation
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Naira
नायरा
shining, luminous
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Naira is most often read as ‘shining’ or ‘luminous’, and that is the likely sense, but the derivation remains unsettled. Arabic nayyir, ‘luminous’ or ‘shining’, and its feminine nayyira are proposed as a connection. The fuller Urdu name Nayyara is linked with that vocabulary. The cited sources do not establish whether Naira is a shorter form of it or has another origin, so brightness is a plausible proposed association rather than a verified definition of this spelling.
Source: Wiktionary, نير. How we use sources.
Spelling and pronunciation
नायरा is a Devanagari form; نائرہ and نایرہ are reported Urdu spellings. Roman readings include ny-ra, and Nayra and Nairah are alternatives. The proposed Arabic source nayyir has a doubled y. A pronunciation cue is useful because these script forms and Roman readings are not identical.
Also spelled Nayra, Nairah.