As a deity name
Name 452 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
चारु · adj
[वि॰ स्त्री॰ चार्वी] सुंदर मनोहर — Śabdasāgara
चारु · noun · masculine
बृहस्पति · रुक्मिणी से उत्पन्न कृष्ण के एक पुत्र · कुंकुम । केसर — Śabdasāgara
चारु · ćāru · adj.
Agreeable, welcome, approved, esteemed, beloved, dear; pleasing, beautiful, lovely, pretty, elegant — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 417
चारु · feminine,masculine
a unisex given name, Charu, from Sanskrit
चारु
charming, beautiful, graceful
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi चारु — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit चारु (cāru).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
cāru mf(us)n. (√ 2. can) agreeable, approved, esteemed, beloved, endeared, (Lat.) carus, dear (with dat. or loc. of the person), RV.; VS. xxxv, 17; TS. iii; TBr. iii, 1, 1, 9; ŚāṅkhŚr. i, 5, 9
pleasing, lovely, beautiful, pretty, RV.; AV.; MBh. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
us (√ 2. can) agreeable, approved, esteemed, beloved, endeared, (Lat.) carus, dear (with dat. or loc. of the person)
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
cāru mf(us)n. (√ 2. can) agreeable, approved, esteemed, beloved, endeared, (Lat.) carus, dear (with dat. or loc. of the person), RV.; VS. xxxv, 17; TS. iii; TBr. iii, 1, 1, 9; ŚāṅkhŚr. i, 5, 9
pleasing, lovely, beautiful, pretty, RV.; AV.; MBh. &c.
cāru ind. so as to please, agreeably (with dat.), RV. ix, 72, 7 and 86, 21; AV. vii, xii, xiv
beautifully, Hariv.; Caurap.
cāru m. (in music) a particular vāsaka
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