रेणुका

Borrowed from Sanskrit रेणुका (reṇukā).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɾeː.ɳʊ.kɑː/, [ɾeː.ɳʊ.käː]

रेणुका • (reṇukā) f

1. dust, sand

   Synonyms: बालू (bālū), रेत (ret), रज (raj), धूल (dhūl)

2. (botany) pollen

रेणुका • (reṇukā) f

1. (Hinduism) goddess Renuka, mother of lord Parashurama, the sixth avatar of lord Vishnu.
2. a lake in Himachal Pradesh, India.
3. a female given name, Renuka, from Sanskrit.

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “रेणुका”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 4207
• Caturvedi, Mahendra; Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970), “रेणुका”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 654
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “रेणुका”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 870

रेणुका • (reṇukā) stem, f

1. a particular drug or medicinal substance (said to be fragrant, but bitter and slightly pungent in taste, and of greyish colour ; cf. रेणु) L.
2. name of a कारिका (composed by हरि-हर ; cf. रेणु-कारिका) Cat.
3. (Hinduism) Name of the wife of जमद्-अग्नि and mother of परशुराम (she was the daughter of रेणु and of king प्रसेन-जित्) MBh. Hariv. Pur.
4. name of a river VP.

• Monier Williams (1899), “रेणुका”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0887/2.