As a deity name
Name 640 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
प्रद्युम्न · noun · masculine
कामदेव । कंदर्प · श्रीकृष्ण के बडे़ पुत्र का नाम · नड्वला के गर्भ से उत्पन्न मनु के एक पुत्र का नाम — Śabdasāgara
प्रद्युम्न · adj
अत्यंत बली । बहुत बड़ा वीर — Śabdasāgara
प्रद्युम्न · pra-dyumna · s.m.
'The pre-eminently mighty-one,' an epithet of Kām-dev the god of love (see parduman) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 247
प्रद्युम्न · masculine
Pradyumna, son of Krishna and Rukmini; a male given name, Pradyumna or Pradyumn, from Sanskrit
Cited formation "प्रद्युम्न" is प्र- + द्युम्न: द्युम्न means "१ धन", and the prefix प्र- forms excess, very, forward. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi प्रद्युम्न — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रद्युम्न (pradyumna).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
pra-dyumna m. ‘the pre-eminently mighty one’, N. of the god of love (re-born as a son of Kṛṣṇa and Rukmiṇī, or as a son of Saṃkarṣaṇa and then identified with Sanat-kumāra), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
the pleasant (= kāma), Subh.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘the pre-eminently mighty one’, N. of the god of love (re-born as a son of Kṛṣṇa and Rukmiṇī, or as a son of Saṃkarṣaṇa and then identified with Sanat-kumāra), &c.
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pra-dyumna m. ‘the pre-eminently mighty one’, N. of the god of love (re-born as a son of Kṛṣṇa and Rukmiṇī, or as a son of Saṃkarṣaṇa and then identified with Sanat-kumāra), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
the pleasant (= kāma), Subh.
the intellect (= manas), Śaṃk.
N. of a son of Manu and Naḍvalā, BhP.
of a king, Kathās.
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