Krishna
[ krish-nuh ]
/ ˈkrɪʃ nə /
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noun
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.
Informal. Hare Krishna.
Formerly Kistna. a river in S India, flowing E from the Western Ghats to the Bay of Bengal. 800 miles (1290 km) long.
a male given name.
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Origin of Krishna
From the Sanskrit word kṛṣṇa
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Krishna
1/ (ˈkrɪʃnə) /
noun
a river in S India, rising in the Western Ghats and flowing generally southeast to the Bay of Bengal. Length: 1300 km (800 miles)Also called: Kistna
Krishna
2/ (ˈkrɪʃnə) /
noun
Hinduism the most celebrated of the Hindu deities, whose life story is told in the Mahabharata
Word Origin for Krishna
via Hindi from Sanskrit, literally: dark, black
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Krishna
eighth avatar of Vishnu, 1875, from Sanskrit krshnah, literally "the Black One," from PIE *kers-no-, suffixed form of root *kers- "dark, dirty" (cf. Old Church Slavonic crunu, Russian coron, Serbo-Croatian crn, Czech cerny, Old Prussian krisnas "black," Lithuanian kersas "black and white, variegated").
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