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Atri

Atri proper noun: a legendary bard and scholar, one of nine Prajapatis, a son of Brahma, said to be ancestor of some Brahmins. Atri is one of the Saptarishi (Seven Great Sages) in the seventh, i.e. the present Manvantara.

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Proper noun

Atri

  1. (Hinduism) A legendary bard and scholar, one of nine Prajapatis, a son of Brahma, said to be ancestor of some Brahmins. Atri is one of the Saptarishi (Seven Great Sages) in the seventh, i.e. the present Manvantara.

Atri meaning in Sanskrit

Atri in Sanskrit

Atri, a son of Brahma, husband of Anasuya, one of the Saptarshis, and the father of Chandra, Durvasa and Dattatreya, composer of a number of Vedic hymns
अत्रि átri

Origin of Atri

From Sanskrit अत्रि (atri).

Questions about Atri

What does Atri mean?
Atri means a legendary bard and scholar, one of nine Prajapatis, a son of Brahma, said to be ancestor of some Brahmins. Atri is one of the Saptarishi (Seven Great Sages) in the seventh, i.e. the present Manvantara.
What is Atri in Sanskrit?
Atri in Sanskrit is अत्रि (átri). See Atri meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is Atri?
Atri is a proper noun.

Words near Atri in the dictionary

  1. atresias
  2. atresic
  3. atretic
  4. atretogenic
  5. Atreus
  6. Atri
  7. atria
  8. atrial
  9. atrial fibrillation
  10. atrial fibrillations
  11. atrial flutter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Atri (page history and authors); अत्रि (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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