गिरि

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गिरि (giri).

गिरि (giri) (𑂏𑂱𑂩𑂱, Perso-Arabic گِر)

1. mountain, hill
   • c. 1500s CE, Tulsīdās, Saṅkaṭmocan Hanumān Aṣṭak :

     बालि की त्रास कपीस बसै गिरि

     bāli kī trāsa kapīsa basai giri

     /bāli kī trās kapīs basai giri/

गिरि m

1. Devanagari script form of giri (“mountain”)

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gr̥Híš (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H-í-s (“elevation”), from *gʷerH- (“to elevate”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌 (gaⁱri, “mountain”), Pashto غر (ǧar), Old Church Slavonic гора (gora, “mountain”), Ancient Greek Βορέας (Boréas), Albanian gur.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡi.ɾí/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɡi.ɾi/

गिरि • (girí) stem, m

1. mountain, hill, elevation, rising ground
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 6.24.8.2:

     अज्रा॒ इन्द्र॑स्य गि॒रय॑श् चिद् ऋ॒ष्वा ग॑म्भी॒रे चि॑द् भवति गा॒धम् अ॑स्मै ॥

     ájrā índrasya giráyaś cid ṛṣvā́ gambhīré cid bhavati gādhám asmai.

     High mountains are like level plains to Indra: even in the deep he finds firm ground to rest on.

2. a huge rock
3. an honorific title given to sannyasins

• गिरीश (girīśa)

• Monier Williams (1899) “गिरि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 355, column 2.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “गिरि”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “girí-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 487
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “giri”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 223

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵl̥h₂-í-s (“husband's sister”). Cognate with Armenian տալ (tal), Ancient Greek γάλως (gálōs), Latin glōs, Proto-Slavic *zъly.
However, the attestation of this meaning (instead of "mountain") is contested by Griffiths & Lubotsky (2009).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡi.ɾi/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɡi.ɾi/

गिरि • (giri) stem, f

1. sister-in-law (husband's sister)

• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “giri-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 487-8
• Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “giri- ”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 213-4
• Griffiths, A. & Lubotsky, A. (2009). "Two Words for 'sister-in-law'?: Notes on Vedic yātar- and giri-." in Zarathushtra entre l'Inde et l'Iran, pages 115-121

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

गिरि • (girí) f

1. locative singular of गिर् (gír, “praise”)