As a Hindi name
छवि · noun · feminine
शोभा । सौंदर्य · कांति । प्रभा । चमक · त्वचा । चमड़ी । खाल (को) — Śabdasāgara
छवि · noun · feminine
चित्र । फोटो । प्रतिकृति — Śabdasāgara
छवि · ćhavi · s.f.
Hide, skin; colour; light, brilliance, lustre, splendour; beauty (see ćhab) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 465
छवि · feminine
a female given name, Chhavi or Chavi, from Sanskrit
छवि · feminine
persona; image; beauty, lustre, splendour
Cited formation "छवि" is a compound of छह ("six") + वि ("उप॰ [सं॰] एक उपसर्ग जो शब्द के पहले लगकर इस प्रकार अर्थ देता है"): छ- is the combining form of छह, its long vowel shortened. CHD Basic Grammar App. III §3 — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi छवि — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit छवि (chavi), from Proto-Indo-European *kew- (“complexion, skin, beauty”). Compare the descendants of Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“shape, form”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
chavi f. skin, cuticle, PārGṛ., iii, 12; Hariv. 15709; Suśr.; VarBṛS. lxix, 28 ff.
colour of the skin, colour, MBh. iii, 12387; Mṛcch.; Megh. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
skin, cuticle
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Dictionary citations
chavi f. skin, cuticle, PārGṛ., iii, 12; Hariv. 15709; Suśr.; VarBṛS. lxix, 28 ff.
colour of the skin, colour, MBh. iii, 12387; Mṛcch.; Megh. &c.
beauty, splendour, Ragh. ix, 34; Śiś. ix, 3; Naiṣ. xxii, 55
a ray of light, L.
cf. kṛṣṇa-cch˚.
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