sati (Hindu practice)
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wife
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Kannada | |
| lexeme | sati | |
| meaning 1 | sati (Hindu practice) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | wife | |
| reference | Kannada-English Etymological Dictionary: 906 | |
| comment | Meaning 1: sati, self-immolation on the husband’s pyre [Sk.] Also: chaste, virtuous wife. | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tamil | |
| lexeme | cati | |
| meaning 1 | sati (Hindu practice) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | good, virtuous or faithful wife | |
| reference | Tamil lexicon: 1257 | |
| comment | < from Sanskrit satī "a Hindu practice of self-immolation of a widow along with her deceased husband". Also: Cre-A Tamil dictionary (modern language): 390 | |
Sanskrit satī 'a good and virtuous or faithful wife (esp. applied in later use to the faithful wife [popularly called Suttee] who burns herself with her husband's corpse', 'of the goddess Durgā or Umā (sometimes described as Truth personified or as a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Bhava [Śiva], and sometimes represented as putting an end to herself by Yoga, or at a later period burning herself on the funeral pyre of her husband)', 'a wife, female (of an animal)' MW 1134