The Sanskrit term Parikṝ can be transliterated into English as Parikr or Parikri, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Parikṝ (परिकॄ).—6. P.

1) To surround; परिकीर्णा परिवादिनी मुनेः (parikīrṇā parivādinī muneḥ) R.8.35.

2) To hand or give over, deliver; महीं महेच्छः परिकीर्य सूनौ (mahīṃ mahecchaḥ parikīrya sūnau) R.18.33.

3) To scatter about.

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Parikrī (परिक्री).—9 Ā.

1) To buy; संभोगाय परिक्रीतः कर्तास्मि तव नाप्रियम् (saṃbhogāya parikrītaḥ kartāsmi tava nāpriyam) Bhaṭṭikāvya 8.78.

2) To hire, purchase for a time (with instr. or dat. of the price at which one is employed on stipulated wages); शतेन शताय वा परिक्रीतः (śatena śatāya vā parikrītaḥ) Sk.

3) To return, requite, repay; कृतेनोपकृतं वायोः परिक्रीणान- मुत्थितम् (kṛtenopakṛtaṃ vāyoḥ parikrīṇāna- mutthitam) Bhaṭṭikāvya 8.8.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Parikrī (परिक्री).—purchase, get by exchange; hire, obtain (*[with] [dative] or [instrumental] of price).

Parikrī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pari and krī (क्री).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Parikṛ (परिकृ):—[=pari-kṛ] -√1. kṛ [Parasmaipada] -karoti etc. (cf. pari-ṣ-kṛ), to surround, [Mahābhārata];

—to uphold, [Divyāvadāna]

2) Parikṝ (परिकॄ):—[=pari-kṝ] -√1. kṝ [Parasmaipada] -kirati, ([indeclinable participle] -kīrya), to scatter or strew about, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra];

2) —to throw upon, impose, deliver over to ([locative case]), [Rāghavapāṇḍavīya xviii, 32.]

3) Parikrī (परिक्री):—[=pari-√krī] a [Ātmanepada] -krīṇīte ([Pāṇini 1-3, 18]; really more frequent in [Parasmaipada] e.g. [imperfect tense] -akrīṇam, [Atharva-veda]; [Potential] -krīṇīyāt, [Śāṅkhāyana-śrauta-sūtra]; [indeclinable participle] -krīya, [Gobhila-śrāddha-kalpa]),

—to purchase, buy, barter, gain, acquire, [Atharva-veda; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Lāṭyāyana; Gobhila-śrāddha-kalpa] (with [instrumental case] or [dative case] of the price e.g. śatena, or śatāya, to buy for a hundred, [Pāṇini 1-4, 44]);

—to hire, engage for stipulated wages, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; ???];

—to recompense, reward (only p. [Ātmanepada] -krīṇāna), [Bhaṭṭi-kāvya]

4) [=pari-krī] b m. Name of an Ekāha, [???]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Kri, Pari.

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Ends with: Agniparikri, Anuparikri.

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