Sanskrit

Noun

बर्हिस् • ‎(barhís) n

1. (rarely m) "that which is plucked up", sacrificial grass, a bed or layer of कुश​ ‎(kuśa) grass (usually strewed over the sacrificial ground and especially over the वेदि ‎(vedi), to serve as a sacred surface on which to present the oblations, and as a seat for the gods and for the sacrificers) (RV. etc.)
2. Sacrificial Grass personified (and enumerated among the प्रयाज​ ‎(prayāja) and अनुयाज​ ‎(anuyāja) deities) (RV.)
3. sacrifice (RV., BhP.)
4. ether (L.)
5. water (L.)
6. a kind of perfume (L.)

Noun

बर्हिस् • ‎(barhís) m

1. fire, light, splendou (L.)
2. Plumbago zeylanica (L.)
3. name of a man (MaitrUp.)
4. name of a son of Bṛhad-rāja (BhP.)
5. (in plural) the descendants of Barhis (Saṃskārak.)

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0722