हरि

हरि (hari) m

1. (Hinduism) Hari: an epithet of Krishna, avatar of Vishnu

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *źʰárHiṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰárHiš, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰólh₃-i-s, from *ǵʰelh₃-. Cognate with Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌‎ (zaⁱri), Persian زر‎ (zar, “gold”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɦɐ́.ɾi/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɦɐ.ɾi/

हरि • (hári)

1. yellow or green
2. fawn-coloured
3. reddish brown
4. brown
5. tawny
6. pale
7. yellow
8. fallow
9. bay (especially applied to horses)
10. green
11. greenish

हरि • (hári) m

1. a horse, steed (especially of Indra)
2. a lion
3. the sign of the zodiac Leo
4. the sun
5. a monkey
6. a ray of light
7. the moon
8. mungo bean, Vigna mungo
9. a jackal
10. a parrot
11. peacock
12. the koil or Indian cuckoo
13. a goose
14. a frog
15. a snake
16. fire
17. the wind
18. (in the plural) men, people (= मनुष्याः)

हरि • (hári)

1. name of Vayu (god of the wind)
2. name of Indra
3. name of Vishṇu-Kṛishṇa (in this sense thought by some to be derived from √hṛ, 'to take away or remove evil or sin')
4. name of Brahmā TĀr.
5. name of Yama
6. name of Śiva
7. name of Śukra
8. name of Su-parṇa
9. name of a son of Garuḍa
10. name of a Rākshasa
11. name of a Dānava
12. name of a son of Akampaua (or Anukampana)
13. name of a son of Tārakâksha
14. name of a son of Parājit
15. name of a son of Parāvṛit
16. name of a worshiper of Vishṇu
17. name of various authors and scholars (especially of the poet Bhartṛi-hari as the author of the Vākya-padīya)
18. name (also with miśra, bhaṭṭa, dīkṣita etc.)
19. name of a mountain
20. name of a world (compare hari-varṣa)
21. name of a metre
22. name of a particular high number
23. name a particular class of gods under Manu Tāmasa
24. female name of the mythical mother of the monkeys

• Monier Williams (1899), “हरि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1289.

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• IPA^(key): /hʌri/

हरि (hari)

1. blood