As a Hindi name
चीरना
to split, rend; to form a path, cut a way
चीरी · feminine
Śabdasāgara also records: झीगुर । झिल्ली · एक प्रकार की छोटी मछली
Platts (p. 471) also records: A cricket
Cited formation "चीरी" is चीर + -ई: चीर means "a strip of material", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "चीरी" is चीरना + -ई: चीरना means "to split, rend", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "चीरी" is चीर + -ई: चीर means "a strip of material", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word of Prakrit origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Hindi verb set चिरना (cirnā) चीरना (cīrnā) चिराना (cirānā) चिरवाना (cirvānā) Etymology tree Sanskrit चीर (cīra) Prakrit चीर (cīra)der. Hindi चीरना Verbal derivative from Prakrit चीर (cīra, “a strip”), whence चीर (cīr, “a strip, rag”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the hem of an undergarment
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M1 · same meaning "cīrī" is the nominative of "cīrin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "cīrī" is the nominative dual of "cīri" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
cīrī f. = ˚rī-vāka, Yājñ. iii, 215
the hem of an undergarment, L.
cf. kuśa-; mukha-cīrī.
cīrī f. of ˚ra,
cīrī See cīra.
cīrin mfn. = ˚ra-bhṛt, MBh. iii, xiii; Hariv. 10594; BhP. iii, 33, 14
cīrin a. [cīra-ini] Clothed in bark, garments or rags.
cīri f. a veil for the eyes, L.
cīri f. (-riḥ) An eye cloth, a veil covering the eyes. E. cira to hurt, and ki affix; the radical vowel lengthened.
Alternative readings
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