राधा

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɾɑː.d̪ʱɑː/, [ɾäː.d̪ʱäː]

राधा • (rādhā) f

1. Radha (the goddess of beauty, humanity, and kindness, consort of Krishna)
2. a female given name, Radha, from Sanskrit.

• राधे-राधे (rādhe-rādhe)

From राध् (√rādh) derived from Proto-Indo-European *Hréh₁dʰeti, from *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to think, arrange, accomplish”).

राधा • (rādhā) stem, f

1. prosperity, success
2. (also dual) name of the 21st Nakshatra−Visakha (containing 4 stars in the form of a curve supposed to be अ (a), त् (t), व् (v), Librae, and γ Scorpionis cf. नक्षत्र (nakṣatra))
3. lightning
4. a particular attitude in shooting (standing with the feet a span apart ; cf. -भेधिन् (-bhedhin), -वेधिन् (-vedhin)), (Pracaṇḍ.)
5. Emblic Myrobolan
6. Clitoria ternatea
7. name of the foster-mother of Karna (q.v. ; she was the wife of अधिरथ (adhiratha), who was सूत (sūta) or charioteer of king शूर (śūra))
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
8. name of a celebrated cowherdess or गोपी (gopī) (beloved by कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa), and a principal personage in जय-देव (jaya-deva)'s poem गीतगोविन्द (gītagovinda); at a later period worshipped as a goddess, and occasionally regarded as an अवतार (avatāra) of लक्ष्मी (lakṣmī), as कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa) is of विष्णु (viṣṇu); also identified with दाक्षायणी (dākṣāyaṇī))
   • c. 1100, Jayadeva, Gītagovinda
   • c. 300 BCE, Pañcatantra
9. name of a female slave
   • c. 200 CE, Lalitavistara Sūtra

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

• Monier Williams (1899) “राधा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0876.