ह्री

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreyH- (to be ashamed).

Pronunciation

Noun

ह्री • (hrī) stem, f

  1. shame
  2. modesty
  3. shyness
  4. timidity

Root

ह्री • (hrī)

  1. to blush, be modest
  2. to be ashamed

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “ह्री”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1307.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 209
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “ह्री”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “ह्री”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
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