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Krishna

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkɹɪʃnə//

A deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism.

    The carpenter had disappeared, leaving half-finished not one but three images, as they are still today, identified as Krishna, Balarama and their sistier Subhadra.

    She also built a temple at Turintra under Balipatna police station. In this temple three deities Balabhadra (Ananta), Jagannath (Krishna) and Subhadra were carved separately in three chlonite stones.

  2. 2

    A river in southern India.

  3. 3

    A district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

  4. 4

    A male given name from Sanskrit.

  5. 5

    A surname from Sanskrit.

    Fittingly, I enjoyed those warm and crunchy-tender Korean rice cakes beneath slightly salty ham and a drizzle of floral honey with my colleague Priya Krishna, who first put me on to the rice-cake fundido at Haenyeo in Park Slope, Brooklyn, back in 2019.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- Proto-Indo-European *kers- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *kr̥snós Proto-Indo-Iranian *kr̥šnás Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa)bor. English Krishna Borrowed from Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa).

Forms

plural
Krishnas
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