As a deity name
Name 713 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 542 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 692 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 129 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
करण · noun · masculine
व्याकरण में वह कारक जिसके द्वारा कर्ता क्रिया को सिद्ध करता है । जैसे,—छड़ी से साँप मारो । इस उदाहरण में 'छड़ी' 'मारने' का साधक है अतः उसमें करण का चिह्न 'से' लगाया गया है · हथियार । औजार · इंद्रिय — Śabdasāgara
करण · adj
करनेवाला — Śabdasāgara
करण · karaṇ · s.m.
Making, doing; committing (a crime); causing, producing, effecting, accomplishing — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 827
करण · masculine
articulation; instrument; function; doing
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi करण — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit करण (karaṇa).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
karaṇa mf(ī) n (once karaṇa, RV. i, 119, 7) doing, making, effecting, causing (esp. ifc.; cf. antakaraṇa, uṣṇaṃ-k˚, &c.), R. &c.
clever, skilful, RV. i, 119, 7
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
(once karaṇa, ) doing, making, effecting, causing (esp. ifc.; cf. antakaraṇa, uṣṇaṃ-k˚, &c.), &c.
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karaṇa mf(ī) n (once karaṇa, RV. i, 119, 7) doing, making, effecting, causing (esp. ifc.; cf. antakaraṇa, uṣṇaṃ-k˚, &c.), R. &c.
clever, skilful, RV. i, 119, 7
karaṇa m. a helper, companion, AV. vi, 46, 2; xv, 5, 1-6; xix, 57, 3
a man of a mixed class (the son of an outcast Kṣatriya, Mn. x, 22; or the son of a Śūdra woman by a Vaiśya, Yājñ. i, 92; or the son of a Vaiśya woman by a Kṣatriya, MBh. i, 2446; 4521; the occupation of this class is writing, accounts &c.)
writer, scribe, W.
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