प्री

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *preyH-.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɾiː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /pɾiː/

प्री • (prī)

1. to please, gladden, delight, gratify, cheer, comfort
2. (transitive) to like, to love, to adore

• Verbal derivations:
  • प्रीणाति (prīṇā́ti, class 9, present, active voice), प्रीणीते (prīṇīté, class 9, present, middle voice)
  • प्रीयते (prīyate, “to be pleased or delighted; to enjoy”, passive voice) (with genitive/instrumental/locative/ablative case)
  • प्रेष्यति (preṣyati, future, active voice)
  • प्रीणयति (prīṇayati, causative)
  • प्रीणयिष्यति (prīṇayiṣyati, future causative)
  • पिप्रीषति (píprīṣati, desiderative)
  • प्रीणत् (prīṇat, present participle)
  • प्रीत्वा (prītvā, “having pleased”)
• प्रिय (priyá, “beloved, dear”), प्रेयस् (préyas, comparative), प्रेष्ठ (préṣṭha, superlative)
• प्रीत (prītá), प्रीणित (prīṇita)
• प्रीति (prīti)
• प्रीणन (prīṇana)
• प्रेमन् (premán)

प्री • (prī) stem

1. (in compounds) loving, delighting , pleasing , lover , enjoying

   घृतप्री

   ghṛtaprī

   enjoying ghee (as Agni)

• Monier Williams (1899) “प्री”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 709.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 102
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “prī”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “प्री”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 1137
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “प्री”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 188