Given name · Gujarati
શ્રી
“beautiful, splendid”
શ્રી (śrī) is a feminine given name from Sanskrit, ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian. It is used in Gujarati.
GujaratiWritten in Gujarati script. In English: Shri.
Meaning & origin
What it means
શ્રી goes back to Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćriHrás, meaning “beautiful, splendid.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
શ્રી comes from Sanskrit, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Sanskrit श्री, from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śriHrás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćriHrás (“beautiful, splendid”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
શ્રી’s family of names
In Gujarati usage, શ્રી shares a linguistic root with the English form Shri.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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