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Shrimati or shreemati (Sanskrit: श्रीमती, romanized: Śrīmatī), abbreviated Smt., is a widely accepted Indian honorific (akin to Mrs. in English) used when referring to an adult woman in some Indian languages, including Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Odia, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Tulu. [1]
standard form of the Yi languages: Yiddish: yid: yid + 2: Macrolanguage Living ייִדיש (Yidiš) Changed in 1989 from original ISO 639:1988, ji. [3] Yoruba: yor: yor: Individual Living èdè Yorùbá Zhuang, Chuang: zha: zha + 16: Macrolanguage Living 話僮 (Vahcuengh) Zulu: zul: zul: Individual Living isiZulu
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning "short" [1]) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym) or crasis. An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word, usually ended with a trailing period. For example: etc. is the usual abbreviation for et cetera.
The Sanskrit letter śrī in the Devanagari script. Shri (/ ʃ r iː /; [1] Sanskrit: श्री, romanized: Śrī, pronounced) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an honorific.
AAAUM [or just "Om"] is the one syllable short form of the initials of the five supreme beings [pañca-parameṣṭhi]: "Arihant, Ashariri, Acharya, Upajjhaya, Muni". [ 107 ] By extension, the Om symbol is also used in Jainism to represent the first five lines of the Namokar mantra , [ 108 ] the most important part of the daily prayer in the ...
The end of a sentence or half-verse may be marked with the "।" symbol (called a daṇḍa, meaning "bar", or called a pūrṇa virām, meaning "full stop/pause"). The end of a full verse may be marked with a double-daṇḍa, a "॥" symbol. A comma (called an alpa virām, meaning "short stop/pause") is used to denote a natural pause in speech.
The formal Hindi standard, from which much of the Persian, Arabic and English vocabulary has been replaced by neologisms compounding tatsam words, is called Śuddh Hindi (pure Hindi), and is viewed as a more prestigious dialect over other more colloquial forms of Hindi. Excessive use of tatsam words sometimes creates problems for native ...
Variously spelled Maia or Maja it can also be used as a short form of Maria or Mary in Christian culture such as Germany, the Scandinavian countries, and various East European and Balkan countries. Maya is also used as a short form for the name Amalia or the Basque name Amaia or Amaya (meaning "the end") in Spanish-speaking countries. [citation ...