त्रि Can someone please translate?

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त्रि Can someone please translate?

Postby eec232 » 2016-07-14, 2:44

I would greatly appreciate if someone could please tell me what the sanskrit symbol त्रि means? Many thanks!

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Re: त्रि Can someone please translate?

Postby Meera » 2016-08-16, 18:30

It means three in Sanskrit.
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Re: त्रि Can someone please translate?

Postby eec232 » 2016-09-10, 0:49

I appreciate your response. I, too, thought this translated to the word "three" and have this tattoo. However, I had a person in a store that claimed to read Sanskrit tell me it did not exactly translate that way. It was hard for me to understand what he was saying exactly -- but he implied it was meaningless without further context. Does this make sense to you?

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Re: त्रि Can someone please translate?

Postby Meera » 2016-09-23, 17:04

eec232 wrote:I appreciate your response. I, too, thought this translated to the word "three" and have this tattoo. However, I had a person in a store that claimed to read Sanskrit tell me it did not exactly translate that way. It was hard for me to understand what he was saying exactly -- but he implied it was meaningless without further context. Does this make sense to you?


I'm not very familiar with Sanskrit so I'm not so sure. Maybe it has a religious meaning or is a mantra?
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Re: त्रि Can someone please translate?

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-03-18, 17:20

AFAIK, त्रि in Sanskrit is a prefix, not an independent word, so it's more like "tri-" in English than like "three." :)


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