Krishna

English

Statue of Krishna at Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore

Alternative forms

• Kṛṣṇa (transliteration)

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪʃnə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃnə

Proper noun

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.

Derived terms

• Krishnacore
• Krishnaism
• Krishna Janmashtami
• Krishnology

Related terms

• Hare Krishna

Translations

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• Arabic: كْرِيشْنَا m (krīšnā)
• Armenian: Կրիշնա (hy) (Krišna)
• Assamese: কৃষ্ণ (krisno)
• Balinese: Kresna
• Banjarese: Kresna
• Bengali: কৃষ্ণ (bn) (kriśno), কানাই (bn) (kanai), কানু (bn) (kanu)
• Bhojpuri: कृष्ण (kŕṣṇ)
• Burmese: ကရစ်ရှနား (ka.rachra.na:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑天 (Hēitiān)

• Finnish: Krishna
• French: Krishna (fr) m
• German: Krishna (de) m
• Greek: Κρίσνα (el) m (Krísna)
• Gujarati: કૃષ્ણ (kŕṣṇ), માખણચોર m (mākhaṇcor), દ્વારકેશ m (dvārkeś), યદુકુળભૂષણ m (yadukuḷbhūṣaṇ), યદુકુળમણિ (yadukuḷmaṇi), વ્રજેશ m (vrajeś)
• Hebrew: קרישנה
• Hindi: कृष्ण (hi) m (kŕṣṇa), द्वारकेश (hi) m (dvārkeś), व्रजेश (hi) m (vrajeś), कृष्णा (hi) m (kŕṣṇā), कान्हा (hi) m (kānhā), किशन m (kiśan), माखन-चोर m (mākhan-cor), कन्हैया (hi) m (kanhaiyā)
• Indonesian: Kresna (id)
• Japanese: クリシュナ (Kurishuna)
• Javanese: ꦏꦽꦱ꧀ꦤ (Kresna)
• Kannada: ಕೃಷ್ಣ (kn) (kṛṣṇa)
• Kazakh: Кришна (Krişna)
• Khmer: ក្រស្នា (km) (krɑsnaa)
• Konkani: कृष्ण (kŕṣṇa)
• Korean: 크리슈나 (Keurisyuna)
• Kyrgyz: Кришна (Krişna)
• Maithili: कृष्ण (kr̥ṣṇa)
• Malayalam: കൃഷ്ണൻ (ml) (kr̥ṣṇaṉ)
• Marathi: कृष्ण m (kŕṣṇa)
• Nepali: कृष्ण (ne) (kr̥ṣṇa)
• Odia: କୃଷ୍ଣ (or) (kruṣṇa)
• Persian: کریشنا (fa) (kerišnâ), کرشن (krešn)
• Polish: Kryszna (pl) m
• Portuguese: Krishna m, Críxena
• Punjabi: ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਨ (kriśan)
• Russian: Кри́шна (ru) m (Kríšna)
• Sanskrit: कृष्ण (sa) m (kṛṣṇá)
• Slovak: Krišna m
• Spanish: Krishna m
• Sundanese: ᮊᮢᮨᮞ᮪ᮔ (kresna)
• Swedish: Krishna (sv) c
• Tamil: கிருட்டிணன் (ta) (kiruṭṭiṇaṉ), கண்ணன் (ta) (kaṇṇaṉ), கிருஷ்ணன் (ta) (kiruṣṇaṉ)
• Telugu: కృష్ణుడు (te) (kr̥ṣṇuḍu)
• Thai: พระกฤษณะ (th)
• Urdu: کرشن m (kirśan), کنھیا m (kanhaiyā), کشن m (kiśan)

river

• Greek: Κρίσνα (el) m (Krísna)
• Hindi: कृष्ण (hi) m (kŕṣṇa)
• Marathi: कृष्ण f (kŕṣṇa)
• Persian: کریشنا (fa) (kerišnâ)
• Polish: Kryszna (pl) m
• Russian: Кри́шна (ru) f (Kríšna)
• Sanskrit: कृष्ण (sa) (kṛṣṇá)
• Tamil: கிருஷ்ணா (ta) (kiruṣṇā)
• Telugu: కృష్ణానది (te) (kr̥ṣṇānadi)
• Urdu: کرشنا f (kirśnā)

name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克里希納 (Kèlǐxīnà)

• Greek: Κρίσνα (el) m (Krísna)
• Hindi: कृष्ण (hi) m (kŕṣṇa)
• Japanese: クリシュナ (Kurishuna)
• Javanese: ꦏꦽꦱ꧀ꦤ (Kresna)
• Korean: 크리슈나 (Keurisyuna)
• Malayalam: കൃഷ്ണൻ (ml) (kr̥ṣṇaṉ), കണ്ണൻ (ml) (kaṇṇaṉ)
• Marathi: कृष्ण m (kŕṣṇa)
• Persian: کریشنا (fa) (kerišnâ)
• Russian: Кри́шна (ru) (Kríšna)
• Tamil: கிருஷ்ணா (ta) (kiruṣṇā), கண்ணன் (ta) (kaṇṇaṉ), கிருஷ்ணன் (ta) (kiruṣṇaṉ)
• Telugu: కృష్ణుడు (te) (kr̥ṣṇuḍu)

Statistics

• 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.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Harkins, rankish

Portuguese

Proper noun

Krishna m

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