diya
/ˈdiːjə
/noun Indian
A small cup-shaped oil lamp made of baked clay: I was glad she used diyas instead of electrical lighting...
- I recall a drive outside Delhi, and we passed village after village lit up like a fairyland, with hundreds of clay diyas.
- Fireworks whizzed into the sky and diyas and sparkles brought light into many an eye.
- A little girl sold us mud diyas with little candles in them.
Origin
From Hindi dīyā.
- award ceremony
- awardee
- awarder
- awards ceremony
- award wage
- award-winning
- aware
- awareness
- awareness bracelet
- awari
- a (warning) shot across the bows
- awash
- a watched pot never boils
- away
- awayday
- away goal
- away message
- away (or off or out etc.) with
- away with
- away with the fairies
- AWB
- awbody
- AWD
- Awdry, Reverend W.
- awe