Krishna

• Kṛṣṇa (transliteration)

Borrowed from Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪʃnə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃnə

Krishna (countable and uncountable, plural Krishnas)

1. (Hinduism) A deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism.
   • 1960, Mayadhar Mansinha, History of Oriya Literature‎^[1], Sahitya Akademi, page 76:

     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.

   • 2008, Orissa: An Encyclopaedia of Events‎^[2], 2 edition, Sankalpa Publications, page 41:

     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. A river in southern India.
3. A district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
4. A male given name from Sanskrit.
5. A surname from Sanskrit.
   • 2022 October 4, Nikita Richardson, “Rice Cakes, Rice Rolls, Rice Sweets”, in The New York Times‎^[3], archived from the original on 5 November 2022:

     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.

• Hare Krishna

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Krishna is the 18793^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1458 individuals. Krishna is most common among White (89.3%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Krishna”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 354.

• Harkins, rankish

Krishna m

1. (Hinduism) Krishna (a supreme Hindu deity)