Charu

{{Short description|Sanskrit word and name}} {{Infobox name | name = चारु | gender = Male and Female | masculine = | feminine = | meaning = Sweet | motto = | region = | language = Sanskrit | languageorigin = | origin = | alternative spelling = | nickname = | shortform = | petname = | variant forms = | related names = | cognate = | anglicisation = | name day = | derived = | derivative = | derivation = | seealso = | popularity = | footnotes = |romanisation=Chāru}}{{About|Charu, the Sanskrit word|Charu, mushu the Etruscan psychopomp|Charun}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

'''Charu''' is a Sanskrit word that means 'sweet'.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Copson |first1=Andrew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXD-CAAAQBAJ&dq=charu+name+sweet&pg=PA98 |title=The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism |last2=Grayling |first2=A. C. |date=2015-04-27 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-118-79334-3 |pages=98 |language=en}}</ref>

==Name== Charu is a popular name given to Hindu women and men. Notable people with the name Charu include:

* Charu Majumdar: The founder of Naxalbari uprising in India * Charulata: Eponymous protagonist of Satyajit Ray's movie

==Other meanings== In Sanskrit, charu is the name of a flower.

Charu is a sweet porridge-like foodstuff offered as ''ahuti'' (offering) in the Yajnas.

Charu Hasini, or 'sweet smiler', is an epithet of the goddess Rukmini.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kapoor |first=Subodh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HJ6O8nwsFWgC&dq=charu+name+sweet&pg=PA87 |title=A Dictionary of Hinduism: Including Its Mythology, Religion, History, Literature, and Pantheon |date=2004 |publisher=Cosmo Publications |isbn=978-81-7755-874-6 |pages=87 |language=en}}</ref>

In Telugu, the dish rasam is known as charu. In Kannada, it is known as saru or sar.

==References== {{Reflist}} {{Worship in Hinduism}}

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