Diya

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A diya, diyo, deya, deeya, dia, divaa, deepa, deepam, deep, deepak or saaki (Sanskrit: दीपम्, romanized: Dīpam, Hindi: दीया, romanized: Dīyā) is an oil lamp made from clay, brass or silver with a cotton wick dipped in oil or ghee.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Diya (lamp)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Suyash Dwivedi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.