The story
From Gujarati ગિરિ (giri, hill), a calque of the Sanskrit word गिरि (also giri, hill) for the terrain, originally from the Proto-Indo-European recontruction gʷer- ("heavy", "to swallow/consume").
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gir forest
Today it means: A forest in the Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat, a state in western India. Full definition →