Proper noun
Krishna (countable and uncountable, plural Krishnas)
- (Hinduism) A deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism.
1960, Mayadhar Mansinha, History of Oriya Literature, 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 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.
- A river in southern India.
- A district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
- A male given name from Sanskrit.
- A surname from Sanskrit.
2022 October 4, Nikita Richardson, “Rice Cakes, Rice Rolls, Rice Sweets”, in The New York Times, 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.
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 (kruṣṇa)
- Korean: 크리슈나 (Keurisyuna)
- Kyrgyz: Кришна (Krişna)
- Maithili: कृष्ण (kr̥ṣṇa)
- Malayalam: കൃഷ്ണൻ (ml) (kr̥ṣṇaṉ)
- Marathi: कृष्ण m (kruṣṇa)
- 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)
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Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Krishna is the 18793rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1458 individuals. Krishna is most common among White (89.3%) individuals.