स्मृति

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

• (Delhi) 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

• Platts, John T. (1884) “स्मृति”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

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

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

स्मृति • (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)

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्मृति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1272.