As a deity name
Name 809 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 765 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 136 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 503 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
अक्रूर · adj
जो क्रुर न हो । सरल । दयालु । सुशील कोमल — Śabdasāgara
अक्रूर · noun · masculine
शवफल्क और गांदिनी का पुत्र एक यादव — Śabdasāgara
अक्रूर · akrūr · adj.
Not cruel; gentle, mild, tender (syn. ḥalīm) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 65
Cited formation "अक्रूर" is अ- + क्रूर: क्रूर means "cruel, brutal, inhumane", and the prefix अ- forms negation, lack. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "अक्रूर" is अ- + क्रूर: क्रूर means "cruel, brutal, inhumane", and the prefix अ- forms without, lacking. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §4(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
not cruel, gentle
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
a-krūra mfn. not cruel, gentle
a-krūra m. N. of Kṛṣṇa's paternal uncle, MBh.
a-krūra (ŚBr.)
akrūra a. [na. ta.] Not cruel. — raḥ N. of a Yādava, a friend and uncle of Kṛṣṇa. [It was he who induced Rāma and Kṛṣṇa to go to Mathurā and kill Kaṃsa. He told the two brothers how their father Ānaka-Dundubhi, the princess Devakī and even his own father Ugrasena had been insulted by the iniquitous demon Kaṃsa, and told them why he had been despatched to them. Kṛṣṇa consented to go and promised to slay the demon within 3 nights, which he succeeded in doing.]
akrūra mfn. (-raḥ-rā-raṃ) Gentle, not cruel. m. (-raḥ) The paternal uncle and friend of KṚṢṆA. E. a neg. krūra cruel.
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