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say it: KRISH-nuh
krishna is a noun meaning "8th and most important avatar of Vishnu; incarnated as a handsome young man playing a flute". It is pronounced /ˈkɹɪʃnə/ — KRISH-nuh. It carries one recorded sense.
8th and most important avatar of Vishnu; incarnated as a handsome young man playing a flute
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for krishna come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.