As a deity name
Name 151 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 400 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 192 of the Saraswati Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
सती · satī · adj.
Virtuous, true, chaste, constant, faithful — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 640
सती · feminine
Sati, daughter of Prajapati Daksha and the first wife of Lord Shiva; a female given name, Sati, from Sanskrit
सती · feminine
a virtuous and devoted wife
Śabdasāgara also records: स्त्री॰ [सं॰] अपने पति को छोड़ और किसी पुरुष का ध्यान मन में न लानेवाली । साध्वी । पतिव्रता
Cited formation "सती" is स + -ती: स means "the thirty-second consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -ती forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(17) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "सती" is सना + -ती: सना means "Sanaa (the capital and largest city of Yemen)", and the suffix -ती forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(17) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi सती — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit सती (satī).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
satī (ī), f., see satī below
1. satī f. (fem. of sat; for 2. See p. 1138, col. 2) her ladyship, your ladyship (= bhavatī, sometimes = ‘you’), MBh.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a wife, female (of an animal)
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M1 · same meaning "satī" is the nominative dual of "sati" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "satī" is the vocative dual of "sat" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
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Dictionary citations
satī (ī), f., see satī below
1. satī f. (fem. of sat; for 2. See p. 1138, col. 2) her ladyship, your ladyship (= bhavatī, sometimes = ‘you’), MBh.
a good and virtuous or faithful wife (esp. applied in later use to the faithful w˚ [popularly called Suttee] who burns herself with her husband's corpse, W.; compar. satī-tarā, sati-t˚ or sat-t˚), Kāv.; VarBṛS.; Kathās. &c.
a wife, female (of an animal), BhP.
a female ascetic, MW.
sati f. = sāti, santi, Pāṇ.; Vop.
= dāna, avasāna, L.
sat mf(satī)n. (pr. p. of √ 1. as) being, existing, occurring, happening, being present (sato me, ‘when I was present’; often connected with other participles or with an adverb, e.g. nāmni kṛte sati, ‘when the name has been given’; tathā sati, ‘if it be so’; also ibc., where sometimes = ‘possessed of’, cf. sat-kalpavṛkṣa), RV. &c. &c.
abiding in (loc.), MBh.
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