Akash आकाश, আকাশ m Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali. Means "open space, sky" in Sanskrit. Akbar اکبر, अकबर m Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Indonesian, Indian (Muslim) Means "greater, greatest" in Arabic. This was the name of a 16th-century Mughal ruler who expanded the empire to include most of India.