ह्री (hrī) is a Sanskrit word meaning to feel shame, blush, be bashful or modest, shame, modesty, shyness, or timidity, to blush, to be ashamed or modest, shame, bashfulness, or modesty, bashfulness, modesty. Its 23 recorded definitions are grouped into 3 contexts, among them The noun 'ह्री' (shame/modesty), The verb 'ह्री' (to feel shame/modesty), Personification of Shame/Modesty (Hrī).
E. ह्री (hrī) to be ashamed, aff. क्विप् । (kvip .)
[ID=47275]
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Shame or bashfulness. 2. Personified shame.
ह्री (hrī)hrī,f. Shame, Hit. i. d. 133,
M.M.; bashfulness, Pañc. i. d. 185;
personified, Rām. 3, 52, 26.
[ID=17290]
— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary
shame, bashfulness
2 ह्री (hrī)f. shame, bashfulness. [ID=40035]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Shame, bashfulness, or modesty.
2. hrī, īs, f. shame, bashfulness, modesty; Modesty, Shame, (personified as daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Dharma.) —Hrī-jita, as, ā, am, overcome by shame, modest, ashamed. —Hrī-nirāsa, as, m. abandonment of shame, shamelessness. —Hrī-ni-ṣedha, as, ā, am, having shame as a check, checked by modesty. —Hrī-niṣeva, as, ā, am, or hrī-niṣevin, ī, iṇī, i, practising modesty, modest. —Hrī-mat, ān, atī, at, bashful, modest, ashamed. —Hrī-yantraṇā, f. the constraint or pain of bash- fulness, torment of shame. —Hrī-sanna-kaṇṭha,as, ī, am, having the throat choked by shame, i. e. having a feeble or broken utterance through bashfulness. [ID=54485]
(H1) [Printed book page 1307,2] Whitney Roots links:ह्री (hrī) & Westergaard Dhatupatha links:25.3 1.ह्री (hrī)cl. 3. P. (Westergaard Dhātupāṭha (Title) xxv, 3) जिह्रेति (jihreti) (जिह्रियत् (jihriyat), Maitrāyaṇī-saṃhitā (Title) ; pf.जिह्राय (jihrāya), Raghuvaṃśa (Title) ; जिह्रयां-चकार (jihrayāṃ-cakāra), ° (°)याम्-आस (° (°)yām-āsa), Gr.; aor.अह्रैषीत् (ahraiṣīt), in the same place [Cologne Addition] (Title) ; Prec.ह्री (hrī)यात् (hrīyāt), in the same place [Cologne Addition] (Title) ; p.ह्रयाण (hrayāṇa), See अ-ह्र् (a-hr)° (°); fut.ह्रेता (hretā), ह्रेष्यति (hreṣyati)Gr.), to feel shame, blush, be bashful or modest, be ashamed of any one (gen.) or anything (abl.), Kāvya literature (Literary category) ; Kathāsaritsāgara (Title) : Caus.ह्रेपयति (hrepayati) (aor.अजिह्रिपत् (ajihripat)), to make ashamed, cause to blush, confound, put to shame (also fig. = ‘surpass, excel’), in the same place [Cologne Addition] (Title) : Desid.जिह्री (hrī)षति (jihrīṣati)Gr.: Intens.जेह्री (hrī)यते (jehrīyate) (p.° (°)यमाण (° (°)yamāṇa), Saddharma-puṇḍarīka (Title) ), जेह्रयीति (jehrayīti), जेह्रेति (jehreti), to be greatly ashamed, in the same place [Cologne Addition] (Title) [ID=264772]
ह्री (hrī) [Printed book page 381-3] ह्री (hrī) HRĪ, Ⅲ.P.jihreti, be ashamed of any one (g.) or anything (ab.): pp.hrīta, ashamed, embarrassed, bashful; hrīṇa (rare), id.; cs. hrepaya,P. make ashamed, cause to blush, put to shame (alsofig. = surpass); intv.jahrīyate, be greatly ashamed. [ID=20681]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
To be modest or ashamed
ह्री (hrī) [Printed book page 981] ह्री (hrī) r. 3rd cl. (जिह्रेति (jihreti)) To be modest or ashamed. [ID=44545]
— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
To be bashful
ह्री (hrī) [Printed book page 907-a] ह्री (hrī)जिह्रेति (jihreti) 3. a. To be bashful. [ID=44383]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. To blush or be modest. 2. To be ashamed.
ह्री (hrī) [Printed book page 839-18] ह्री (hrī)vi. 3P (pp. ह्री (hrī)त (hrīta) or ह्री (hrī)ण (hrīṇa); pres. जिह्रति (jihrati)) 1. To blush, to be modest; 2. to be ashamed of, (with an abl. or gen.), अन्योन्यस्यापि जिह्राम्हः किं पुनः सहवासिनाम् (anyonyasyāpi jihrāmhaḥ kiṃ punaḥ sahavāsinām)Kir. xi.58, Bt. iii.53, R. xv.44. [ID=43577]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
to put to shame, degrade, or disgrace
ह्री (hrī)Caus. (ह्रपयति (hrapayati)-ते (te)) to put to shame, to degrade, to disgrace, युष्मान् ह्रेपयति क्रोधाल्लोके शत्रुकुलक्षयः । न लज्जयति दाराणां सभायां केशकर्षणम् (yuṣmān hrepayati krodhālloke śatrukulakṣayaḥ . na lajjayati dārāṇāṃ sabhāyāṃ keśakarṣaṇam)Ve. i., R. vi.49, Kir. xi.64. [ID=43578]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. To be modest or blush. 2. To be ashamed.
ह्री (hrī) [Printed book page 839-a] ह्री (hrī)
r. 3rd cl. (-जिह्रेति (-jihreti)) To be modest, to blush.
2. To be ashamed of, (with an ablative or genitive.)
[ID=47274]
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. To be ashamed. 2. Ashamed, bashful, or modest. 3. To put to blush or confound.
ह्री (hrī) [Printed book page 1125-b] ह्री (hrī)HRĪ (cf.hṛṇīya), ii. 3, jihrī,Par.
To be ashamed, Ragh. 15, 44. Ptcple. of
the pf.pass.hrīṇa, and hrīta, Ashamed,
bashful, modest, Nal. 13, 30 (hrīta).
Caus.hrepaya, To put to blush, to
confound, Kir. 11, 64. — With सम् (sam)
sam, saṃhrīṇa, Ashamed. — Cf. pro-
bably O.H.G. hriuwan; A.S. hreówan.
[ID=17289]
— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Be ashamed or abashed. 2. Put to shame or confound.
ह्री (hrī) [Printed book page 669] 1 ह्री (hrī)जिह्रेति (jihreti)pp.ह्री (hrī)त (hrīta) (& ह्री (hrī)ण (hrīṇa)) be ashamed or abashed. C.ह्रेपयति (hrepayati) put to shame, confound. I.जेह्री (hrī)यते (jehrīyate) be greatly ashamed. [ID=40034]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. To blush. 2. To be ashamed or modest.
ह्री (hrī) [Printed book page 1179-c] ह्री (hrī) 1 . hrī (connected with rt. 2. hṛ or hṝ, q. v.), cl. 3. P. jihreti (3rd pl. jihriyati), Perf. jihrāya or jihrayāñ-cakāra, hreṣyati,ahraiṣīt, hretum, to blush; to be ashamed, be modest; to be ashamed of (with abl. or gen., e. g. anyonyasya jihrīmaḥ, we are ashamed of one an- other, Kirāt. XI. 58): Caus. hrepayati, -yitum, Aor. ajihripat (according to some ajihrīpat), to put to shame, make to blush, confound: Desid. jihrīṣati: Intens. jehrīyate, jehrayīti, jehreti; [cf. probably Old Germ. hriuwan; Angl. Sax. hreowan.] [ID=54484]
ह्री (hrī) [Printed book page 325-2] Hrī (“shame,” personif.). § 270 (Brahmasabhāv.): II, 11,
458 (in the palace of Brahmán).—§ 330 (Indradarśana):
III, 37, 1488.—§ 615u (Skanda): IX, 45γ, 2515 (came to
the investiture of Skanda).
[ID=4546]
— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata
1. A daughter of Daksha and wife of Dharma.
2. The mother of Prashraya.
3. A shakti.
ह्री (hrī) [Printed book page 3-786] Hrī — a daughter of Dakṣa and a wife of Dharma; mother of Praśraya;1 a śakti.2 [Footnote: 1) Bhā. IV. 1. 50 and 52.]
[Footnote: 2) Br. IV. 44. 71.] [ID=17509]
— The Purana Index
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Definitions on this page come from 12 works:
Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
