শর্মিষ্ঠা

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Bengali

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit शर्मिष्ठा (śarmiṣṭhā), feminine of शर्मिष्ठ (śarmiṣṭha, happiest, safest), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śármiṣṭʰas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćármištʰas (most secure), from *ćármā (sheltered) +‎ *-ištʰas (superlative suffix), adjectivalized from Proto-Indo-European *ḱélmō (covered), with extensive semantic shift.

Pronunciation

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  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /ʃoɾmiʃʈʰa/, [ˈʃoɾmiʂʈʰaˑ]
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  • (Dhaka) IPA(key): /ʃoɹmiʃtʰa/, [ˈʃoɹmiʃtʰaˑ], [ˈʃoɹmistʰaˑ]

Proper noun

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শর্মিষ্ঠা (śormiśṭha)

  1. a female given name, Shormishtha, Shormistha, Sharmishtha, or Sharmistha, from Sanskrit