Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“evil”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a deity name
Name 8 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 168 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 170 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 740 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“evil”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
कृष्ण · adj
श्याम । काल । सिपाह · नीला या आसमानी · दुष्ट । अनिष्टकर — Śabdasāgara
कृष्ण · noun · masculine
विष्णु के दस अवतारों में आठवाँ अवतार । यदुवंशी वसुदेव के पुत्र, जो भोजवंशी देवक की कन्या देवकी के गर्भ से उत्पन्न हुए थे — Śabdasāgara
कृष्ण · kr̤ishṇa · adj.
(f. -ā), & s.m. Black, dark, dark blue — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 825
कृष्ण · masculine
Shri Krishna, the eighth avatar of Lord Vishnu; a male given name, Krishna, from Sanskrit; Krishna (a river in India)
कृष्ण
black, dark, dark blue
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi कृष्ण — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa). Doublet of कान्हा (kānhā) and किशन (kiśan).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. kṛṣṇa mf(ā)n. black, dark, dark-blue (opposed to śveta, śukla, rohita, and aruṇa), RV.; AV. &c.
wicked, evil, Vop. vii, 82
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
black, dark, dark-blue (opposed to śveta, śukla, rohita, and aruṇa), &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kṛṣṇa" is the vocative of "kṛṣṇā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
1. kṛṣṇa mf(ā)n. black, dark, dark-blue (opposed to śveta, śukla, rohita, and aruṇa), RV.; AV. &c.
wicked, evil, Vop. vii, 82
kṛṣṇa (as), m. (with or without pakṣa) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon, Mn.; Yājñ.; Bhag.; Suśr.
the fourth or Kali-yuga, L.
(kṛṣṇas), black (the colour) or dark-blue (which is often confounded with black by the Hindūs), L.
kṛṣṇā (ā), f. a kind of leech, Suśr.
a kind of venomous insect, ib.
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