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  puri

  noun

  a light, unleavened whole wheat flatbread from South Asia that puffs up like a round ball when it is deep-fried.
• Puri
  Puri

  noun

  a seaport in E Odisha, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal: temple of Krishna; Hindu pilgrimage center.

puri

¹ American  

[poor-ee] / ˈpʊər i /

Or poori

noun

plural

puris

1. a light, unleavened whole wheat flatbread from South Asia that puffs up like a round ball when it is deep-fried.

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Puri ² American  

[poor-ee, poo-ree] / ˈpʊər i, pʊˈri /

noun

1. a seaport in E Odisha, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal: temple of Krishna; Hindu pilgrimage center.

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Puri British  

/ pʊəˈriː, ˈpʊəriː /

noun

1. a port in E India, in Odisha (formerly Orissa) on the Bay of Bengal: 12th-century temple of Jagannath. Pop: 157 610 (2001)

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Etymology

Origin of puri

First recorded in 1830–35; from Hindi pūrī, akin to Sanskrit piparti “(he) fills, nourishes” and pūrṇa- “full”

Example Sentences

Petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri sought to calm frayed nerves, insisting there was no fuel shortage.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

“You want your nurse to be a human, but you are probably OK with an AI running your software,” said Sneha Puri, an economist at Indeed Hiring Lab.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

“In a market where the number of applicants per job is up, a boilerplate resume sent to 50 jobs isn’t going to cut it,” Puri said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

"Kerosene is being made available through retail outlets and PDS channels," Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said last week.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

On His arrival at Puri there was a bustle in that village: His joyful bhaktas came and were all embraced by Him,—Kashi Mishra, R�m�nanda, Pradyumna, Sarvabhanma, Vaninath, Shikhi, Gadadhar Pandit and others.

From Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita by K???ad?sa Kavir?ja Gosv?mi