Krishna

American  

[krish-nuh] / ˈkrɪʃ nə /

noun

1. Hinduism. an avatar of Vishnu and one of the most popular of Indian deities, who appears in the Bhagavad-Gita as the teacher of Arjuna.

2. Informal. Hare Krishna.

3. Formerly Kistna.  a river in southern India, flowing east from the Western Ghats to the Bay of Bengal. 800 miles (1,290 km) long.

4. a male given name.

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Krishna ¹ British  

/ ˈkrɪʃnə /

noun

1. Also called: Kistna.  a river in S India, rising in the Western Ghats and flowing generally southeast to the Bay of Bengal. Length: 1300 km (800 miles)

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Krishna ² British  

/ ˈkrɪʃnə /

noun

1. Hinduism the most celebrated of the Hindu deities, whose life story is told in the Mahabharata

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Other Word Forms

• Krishnaism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Krishna

From the Sanskrit word kṛṣṇa

Example Sentences

"This funding will help us serve the historic demand we are experiencing, stay at the research frontier, and bring Claude to more of the places where work happens," said Krishna Rao, Anthropic's chief financial officer.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

Its CFO, Krishna Rao, said recently on the “Invest Like The Best” podcast that the SpaceX deal is “just one example of us … looking for near-term compute wherever we can get it.”

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

The study was led by Deepak Koirala, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UMBC, along with recent Ph.D. graduate Naba Krishna Das.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

Krishna cited the evolution of IBM’s internal human-resource processes as an example of the operating model behind enterprise-level scaling.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

As Krishna grew into a man, so did his strength and his wisdom, and one day he fought the demon and returned to rescue his parents.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman