Hindi

Proper noun

राधा • ‎(rādhā) f

1. Radha (the goddess of beauty, humanity, and kindness, consort of Krishna)

Sanskrit

Noun

राधा • ‎(rādhā) f

1. prosperity, success L.
2. (also du.) N. of the 21st Nakshatra - Visakha (containing 4 stars in the form of a curve supposed to be अ, त्, व्, Librae, and γ Scorpionis cf. नक्षत्र) L.
3. lightning L.
4. a partic. attitude in shooting (standing with the feet a span apart ; cf. -भेधिन्, -वेधिन्), Pracaṇḍ.
5. Emblic Myrobolan L.
6. Clitoria ternatea L.
7. N. of the foster-mother of Karna (q.v. ; she was the wife of अधिरथ, who was सूत or charioteer of king शूर) MBh. (cf. IW. 377)
8. N. of a celebrated cowherdess or गोपी (beloved by कृष्ण, and a principal personage in जय-देव's poem गीतगोविन्द ; at a later period worshipped as a goddess, and occasionally regarded as an अवतार of लक्ष्मी, as कृष्ण is of विष्णु ; also identified with दाक्षायणी) Gīt. Pañcat. &c. (cf. IW. 332)
9. N. of a female slave Lalit.

Descendants

• Hindi: राधा ‎(rādhā)
• Telugu: రాధ ‎(rādha)

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0876