As a Hindi name
री · ind
सखियों के लिये संबोधन । अरी । एरी — Śabdasāgara
री · noun · feminine
गति · वध । हत्या · श्बद । रव — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "री" is र + -ई: र means "the twenty-seventh consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "री" is र + -ई: र means "the twenty-seventh consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "री" is र + -ई: र means "the twenty-seventh consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
going, motion
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M1 · same meaning "rī" is the nominative of "ṛ" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
rī (ī), f. going, motion, L.
1. rī or ri (cf. √ li) cl. 9. P. (Dhātup. xxxi, 30) riṇāti cl. 4. P. (Dhātup. xxvi, 29) rīyate (riṇīte, RV.; Br.; GṛŚrS.; riyati, Dhātup. xxviii, 111; impf. ariṇvan, MaitrS.; Gr. pf. rirāya, rirye; aor. araiṣīt, areṣṭa; fut. retā; reṣyati, ˚te; inf. retum), to release, set free, let go, RV.; to sever, detach from (abl.), ib.; to yield, bestow, AV.; (Ā.) to be shattered or dissolved, melt, become fluid, drop, flow, RV. : Caus. repayati (aor. arīripat) Gr.: Desid. rirīṣati, ˚te, ib. : Intens. rerīyate, rerayīti, ib.
2. rī = rai in ṛdhad-rī, q.v.
3. rī f. See under 3. ra, p. 859, col. 3.
rī I. 4 A. (rīyate) To trickle, drip, distil, ooze, flow. II. 9 U. (riṇāti, riṇīte, rīṇa; caus. repayati-te) 1 To go, move. 2 To hurt, injure, kill. 3 To howl.
1. ṛ the seventh vowel of the Sanskṛt alphabet and peculiar to it (resembling the sound of ri in merrily).
2. ṛ ind. an interjection expressing laughter, L.
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