As a deity name
Name 610 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 252 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 302 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 118 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
श्री · noun · feminine
विष्णु की पत्नी, लक्ष्मी । कमला · सरस्वती · धूप । सरल वृक्ष — Śabdasāgara
श्री · noun · masculine
कुबेर । (डिं॰) · व्रह्मा · विष्णु — Śabdasāgara
श्री · śrī · s.f.
Prosperity, happiness, success; wealth, property; beauty; light, lustre, splendour, glory — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 726
श्री · masculine
a Hindustani sunset raga of the Purvi thaat; a Carnatic raga: incomplete, vakra, and derivative of खरहरप्रिय (kharahrapriya)
श्री · masculine
sir, lord, mister; light, lustre, radiance, splendour, glory, beauty, grace, loveliness
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi श्री — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit श्री (śrī).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. śrī (cf. √ śrā) cl. 9. P. Ā. (Dhātup. xxxi, 3) śrīṇati, śrīṇīte (Gr. also pf. śiśrāya, śiśriye; aor. aśraiṣīt, aśreṣṭha &c.; for aśiśrayuḥ See 2. abhi-√ śrī), to mix, mingle, cook (cf. abhi- and ā-√ śrī), RV.; TS.; VS.; Br.; (= √ 1. śri), to burn, flame, diffuse light, RV. i, 68, 1.
2. śrī mfn. (ifc.) mixing, mingling, mixed with
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
light, lustre, radiance, splendour, glory, beauty, grace, loveliness (śriye and śriyai, ‘for splendour or beauty’, ‘beauteously’, ‘gloriously’, cf. śriyase; du. śriyau, ‘beauty and…
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Dictionary citations
1. śrī (cf. √ śrā) cl. 9. P. Ā. (Dhātup. xxxi, 3) śrīṇati, śrīṇīte (Gr. also pf. śiśrāya, śiśriye; aor. aśraiṣīt, aśreṣṭha &c.; for aśiśrayuḥ See 2. abhi-√ śrī), to mix, mingle, cook (cf. abhi- and ā-√ śrī), RV.; TS.; VS.; Br.; (= √ 1. śri), to burn, flame, diffuse light, RV. i, 68, 1.
2. śrī mfn. (ifc.) mixing, mingling, mixed with
śrī f. mixing, cooking.
3. śrī f. (prob. to be connected with √ 1. śri and also with √ 1. śrī in the sense of ‘diffusing light or radiance’ ; nom. śrīs accord. to some also śrī) light, lustre, radiance, splendour, glory, beauty, grace, loveliness (śriye and śriyai, ‘for splendour or beauty’, ‘beauteously’, ‘gloriously’, cf. śriyase; du. śriyau, ‘beauty and prosperity’; śriya ātmajāḥ, ‘sons of beauty’ i.e. horses [cf. śrī-putra]; śriyaḥ putrāḥ, ‘goats with auspicious marks’), RV. &c. &c.
prosperity, welfare, good fortune, success, auspiciousness, wealth, treasure, riches (śriyā, ‘accord˚ to fortune or wealth’), high rank, power, might, majesty, royal dignity (or ‘Royal dignity’ personified; śriyo bhājaḥ, ‘possessors of dignity’, ‘people of high rank’), AV. &c. &c.
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