Pooja

What does Pooja mean?

Pooja means ‘worship’ or ‘veneration’, from Sanskrit pūjā. Wiktionary also records the Hindi word as a female given name. Its devotional association comes directly from the word's meaning, rather than from a later interpretation or a claim about a particular goddess.

Source: Wiktionary, पूजा. How we use sources.

Spelling and pronunciation

पूजा is written Pooja or Puja in Roman letters. Both forms represent pūjā, whose first and final vowels are long. The oo in Pooja makes the opening vowel easier for an English reader to recognize, while neither plain Roman spelling explicitly marks the long ending.