शारि

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕɑ́ː.ɾi/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɕɑː.ɾi/

Unknown. Undoubtedly related to Classical Persian سَار (sār), سَارِی (sārī, “starling”), Old Armenian սարեակ (sareak, “starling”).^[1][2] More speculatively, compare Proto-Balto-Slavic *śárˀkāˀ (“magpie”), Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz (“raven”), Latin corvus (“raven”); if all related, this may be a Wanderwort.

शारि॑ • (śā́ri) stem, f

1. myna (bird of the family Sturnidae)

   Synonyms: मदन (madana), शारिका (śārikā)

   • c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda (Taittirīya Saṃhitā)
   • c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Śukla-Yajurveda (Vājasenayi Saṃhitā)

• शारिका (śārikā), सारिका (sārikā)

• Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀲𑀸𑀮𑀺𑀓𑀸 (sālikā)
  • Prakrit: 𑀲𑀸𑀭𑀻 (sārī), 𑀲𑀸𑀭𑀺𑀆 (sāriā), 𑀲𑀸𑀮𑀳𑀻 (sālahī), 𑀲𑀸𑀮𑀳𑀺𑀆 (sālahiā), 𑀲𑀸𑀮𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀺𑀆 (sālakkiā) (see there for further descendants)
• Pali: sālikā, sāḷikā, sāliya

Unknown; probably unrelated to the above term.^[2] Compare श॒र (śará, “reed”), शरु॑ (śáru, “missile”), शर्य॑ (śárya, “arrow”), all attested in the Ṛgveda. Some sources instead lemmatise the word as शारी॑ (śā́rī).^[3]

शारि॑ • (śā́ri) stem, f

1. (Ṛgvedic hapax) arrow (projectile shot with a bow)
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.112.16:

     याभि॑र्नरा श॒यवे॒ याभि॒रत्र॑ये॒ याभिः॑ पु॒रा मन॑वे गा॒तुमी॒षथुः॑ ।
     याभिः॒ शारी॒राज॑तं॒ स्यूम॑रश्मये॒ ताभि॑रू॒ षु ऊ॒तिभि॑रश्वि॒ना ग॑तम ॥

     yā́bhirnarā śayáve yā́bhirátraye yā́bhiḥ purā́ mánave gātúmīṣáthuḥ.
     yā́bhiḥ śā́rīrā́jataṃ syū́maraśmaye tā́bhirū ṣú ūtíbhiraśvinā́ gatama.

     • 1890 translation by Ralph T. H. Griffith

       Wherewith, O Heroes, ye vouchsafed deliverance to Ṣayu, Atri, and to Manu long ago; Wherewith ye shot your shafts in Syûmaraṣmi's cause.-Come hither unto us, O Aṣvins, with those aids.

2. an elephant's housings or armour

Unknown. Similar polysemy to गुटिका (guṭikā).

शारि • (śāri) stem, m

1. (chess) chessman, piece at chess (or at a kind of draughts)
2. little round ball
3. a kind of die or small cube used in games with dice

• Monier Williams (1899) “शारि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1066.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śā́ri¹”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 718