শর্মিষ্ঠা

Bengali

Etymology

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

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /ʃoɾmiʃʈʰa/, [ˈʃoɾmiʂʈʰaˑ]

  Audio:

  (file)

• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /ʃoɹmiʃtʰa/, [ˈʃoɹmiʃtʰaˑ], [ˈʃoɹmistʰaˑ]

Proper noun

শর্মিষ্ঠা • (śormiśṭha)

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