What does the name Dhanushri mean?

Dhanushri means "Goddess holding the bow". It is a girl's name of Tamil origin.

Dhanushri

Dhanushri means Goddess holding the bow.

Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.

Gender	girl
Origin	Tamil
Language	Tamil
Starts with	D

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Goddess holding the bow”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Jaladhara — ‘holding water’, a (rain-) cloud

More girls' names of Tamil origin

Oviya — Artist, beautiful
Abirami — Meanings families give: Goddess Lakshmi; Beautiful goddess, Parvati; Goddess Parvati, charming
Nandhini — Joyful girl, daughter of joy
Anandhi — Meanings families give: Blissful; Joyful, blissful
Isai — Music
Jothika — Light, radiance

Where this comes from

Dhanushri has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.