अत्रि

From the root अद् (ad, “to eat”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́t.ɾi/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɐt̪.ɾi/

अत्रि॑ • (átri) stem, m

1. a devourer
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 2.8.5:

     अत्रि॒मनु॑ स्व॒राज्य॑म॒ग्निमु॒क्थानि॑ वावृधुः।
     विश्वा॒ अधि॒ श्रियो॑ दधे॥

     atrim anu svarājyam agnim ukthāni vāvṛdhuḥ.
     viśvā adhi śriyo dadhe.

     Him Atri, Agni, have our songs Strengthened according to his sway:
     All glories hath he made his own.
     (H. H. Wilson translated this verse as the following:
     Our praises have increased the self-irradiating devouring Agni;
     he is possessed of all glory.)

2. (Hinduism) 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.
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.143.2:

     त्यं चि॒दश्वं॒ न वा॒जिन॑मरे॒णवो॒ यमत्न॑त।
     दृ॒ळ्हं ग्र॒न्थिं न वि ष्य॑त॒म्अत्रिं॒ यवि॑ष्ठ॒मा रजः॑॥

     tyáṃ cidáśvaṃ ná vājínamareṇávo yámátnata.
     dṛḷháṃ granthíṃ ná ví ṣyatamátriṃ yáviṣṭhamā́ rájaḥ.

     This Atri, whom the irresistible (asuras) dragged bound like a swift horse, you unloosed like a strongknot, (setting him) the youngest born upon the earth.

3. (astronomy) one of the seven stars of the Great Bear

• Monier Williams (1899), “अत्रि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 17, column 2.