As a deity name
Name 908 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 162 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
शारी · noun · feminine
कुशा नाम की घास · एक प्रकार का पक्षी · मूँज । काँडा — Śabdasāgara
शारी · noun · masculine
शतरंज की गोट · गेंद — Śabdasāgara
शारी · śārī · s.f.
Kuśa grass — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 717
Cited formation "शारी" is शार + -ई: शार means "Variegated, of different colours, speckled, mottled, spotted", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "शारी" is शार + -ई: शार means "Variegated, of different colours, speckled, mottled, spotted", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "शारी" is शार + -ई: शार means "Variegated, of different colours, speckled, mottled, spotted", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a kind of bird (= śāri)
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (7)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "śārī" is the nominative dual of "śāri" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
śārī (ī), f. a chessman &c. (see m.), Naiṣ.
a kind of bird (= śāri), ib.
Kuśa grass, L.
śārī See 1. śāra.
śārī 1 A kind of bird. 2 Ved. An arrow. 3 Kuśa grass.
śāri f. (L. also written śārī or sāri) a partic. bird (= śārikā below), TS.; VS.
an arrow, RV.
Alternative readings
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