As a deity name
Name 185 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 293 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 893 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 65 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
गौरी · noun · feminine
गोरे रंग का स्त्री । पार्वती । गिरिजा · आठ वर्ष की कन्या · हल्दी — Śabdasāgara
गौरी · gaurī · s.f.
'The brilliant goddess,' name of the goddess Pārvatī (the wife of Śiva) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 924
गौरी · feminine
epithet of Goddess Parvati; a female given name, Gauri, from Sanskrit
गौरी · feminine
fair, brilliant; white cow
Cited formation "गौरी" is गौर + -ई: गौर means "white", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "गौरी" is गौर + -ई: गौर means "white", 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, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi गौरी — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit गौरी (gaurī).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
gaurī (ī), f. the female of the Bos Gaurus, RV. (‘Vāc or voice of the middle region of the air’, i, 164, 41 according to Naigh. i, 11 & Nir. xi, 40)
= gaurikā, Gṛhyās. ii, 18; Pañcat.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a yellow pigment or dye (go-rocanā, ‘orpiment’, )
Scripturally attested Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "gaurī" is the feminine form of "gaura" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
gaurī (ī), f. the female of the Bos Gaurus, RV. (‘Vāc or voice of the middle region of the air’, i, 164, 41 according to Naigh. i, 11 & Nir. xi, 40)
= gaurikā, Gṛhyās. ii, 18; Pañcat.
the earth, L.
red chalk, Kālac.
a yellow pigment or dye (go-rocanā, ‘orpiment’, Gal.), L.
gaura mf(ī)n. (in comp. or ifc. g. kaḍārādi) white, yellowish, reddish, pale red, RV. x, 100, 2; TS. v &c.
shining, brilliant, clean, beautiful, Caurap.
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