स्मृति

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्मृति (smṛti). Doublet of सुरत (surat).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /smɾɪ.t̪iː/

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स्मृति • (smŕti) f (Urdu spelling سمرتی)

1. memory, recollection, remembrance

   Synonyms: याद (yād), सुरत (surat), स्मरण (smaraṇ)

   प्राचाय की स्मृति में, आज विद्यालय बंद है।

   prācāy kī smŕti mẽ, āj vidyālay band hai.

   In memory of the principal, school is closed for today.

2. (Hinduism) Smriti

स्मृति • (smŕti) f

1. a female given name, Smriti, from Sanskrit

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “स्मृति”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 5373
• Caturvedi, Mahendra; Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970), “स्मृति”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 842
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “स्मृति”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 1048
• Bahri, Hardev (1989), “स्मृति”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons, page 683.

• स्मृती (smŕtī)

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्मृति (smṛti, “memory”). First attested as Old Marathi 𑘭𑘿𑘦𑘿𑘨𑘲𑘝𑘲 (smṛti, “memory”).

• IPA^(key): /smɾu.t̪i/, [smɾu.t̪iː]

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• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: स्मृ‧ति

स्मृति • (smŕti) f (Hinduism)

1. codes of law as handed down memoriter or by tradition (especially the codes of Manu Yājñavalkya and the 16 succeeding inspired lawgivers)
2. any individual text from the Smṛti body of Hindu religious scriptures

स्मृति • (smŕti) f

1. a female given name from Sanskrit

• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857), “स्मृति”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Shankar Gopal Tulpule; Anne Feldhaus (1999), “स्मृति”, in A Dictionary of Old Marathi, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan

From the root स्मृ (smṛ) +‎ -ति (-ti).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /smŕ̩.ti/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪mr̩.t̪i/

स्मृति॑ • (smṛ́ti) stem, f

1. remembrance, reminiscence, thinking of or upon (+locative or compound), memory, calling to mind

   smṛtim api te na yānt — they are not even thought of

2. memory as one of the व्यभिचारिभाव (vyabhicāri-bhāva)
3. Memory (personified either as the daughter of दक्ष (dakṣa) and wife of अङ्गिरस् (aṅgiras) or as the daughter of धर्म (dharma) and मेधा (medhā))
4. the whole body of sacred tradition or what is remembered by human teachers (in contradistinction to श्रुति (śruti) or what is directly heard or revealed to the rishis)
5. the whole body of codes of law as handed down memoriter or by tradition (especially the codes of Manu Yājñavalkya and the 16 succeeding inspired lawgivers)
6. symbolical name for the number 18 (from the 18 lawgivers above)
7. a kind of metre
8. of the letter 'g'
9. desire, wish (v.l. for स्पृहा (spṛhā))

• → Bengali: স্মৃতি (smriti)
• → Hindi: सुरत (surat), स्मृति (smŕti)
• → Marathi: स्मृती (smŕtī)
• Pali: sati

• Monier Williams (1899), “स्मृति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1272, columns 2-3.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “smr̥ti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 802