ā-√ prī P. (-prīṇāti, [AitBr. ii, 4]; aor. Subj. 2. sg. -pipráyas, [RV. ii, 6, 8]) to satisfy, conciliate, propitiate, please, [RV.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; to address or invoke with the Āprī (see below) verses, [AitBr.]; [ŚBr.] : Ā. (impf. āprīṇīta) to amuse one's self, be delighted or pleased, [TS.]; [Lāṭy.]
ā-prī́ f. gaining one's favour, conciliation, propitiation
f. pl. (-príyas [[AV. xi, 7, 19]] and -pryas [Nārāyaṇa]) N. of particular invocations spoken previous to the offering of oblations (according to [ĀśvŚr. iii, 2, 5] seqq. they are different in different schools; e.g. sámiddho agnír, [RV. v, 28, 1]; in the school of Śunaka; juṣásva naḥ, [RV. vii, 2, 1]; in that of Vasiṣṭha; sámiddho adyá, [RV. x, 110, 1]; in that of others; Nārāyaṇa on this passage gives ten hymns belonging to different schools; see also, [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 13] [súsamiddho na ā́ vaha, the Āprī-hymn of the school of Kaṇva], who enumerates twelve Āprīs and explains that twelve deities are propitiated; those deities are personified objects belonging to the fire-sacrifice, viz. the fuel, the sacred grass, the enclosure, &c., all regarded as different forms of Agni; hence the objects are also called Āprīs, or, according to others, the objects are the real Āprīs, whence the hymns received their names), [AV.]; [TS.]; [ĀśvŚr.] &c.