कृष्णे kṛṣṇe
2 syllables SLP1 kfzRe

As a deity name

Name 964 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees

As a Hindi name

No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.

As a Sanskrit word

Meaning

a kind of leech

Scripturally attested

Why this matches what you typed

M1 · same meaning "kṛṣṇe" is the nominative dual of "kṛṣṇā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.

M1 · same meaning "kṛṣṇe" is the locative of "kṛṣṇa" — the same word in a different grammatical case.

M1 · same meaning "kṛṣṇe" is the nominative dual of "kṛṣṇiman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.

Related forms

Dictionary citations

Monier-Williams (1899) · कृष्णा (linked stem)

kṛṣṇā (ā), f. a kind of leech, Suśr.

Monier-Williams (1899) · कृष्णा (linked stem)

a kind of venomous insect, ib.

Monier-Williams (1899) · कृष्ण (linked stem)

1. kṛṣṇa mf(ā)n. black, dark, dark-blue (opposed to śveta, śukla, rohita, and aruṇa), RV.; AV. &c.

Monier-Williams (1899) · कृष्ण (linked stem)

wicked, evil, Vop. vii, 82

Monier-Williams (1899) · कृष्णिमन् (linked stem)

kṛṣṇiman m. (Pāṇ. vi, 4, 161, Kāś.) black, blackness, Mudr.

Apte (1890) · कृष्णिमन् (linked stem)

kṛṣṇiman m. Blackness.

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