śruti (f)
Meanings
- (in music) a particular division of the octave
- a name
- a quarter tone or interval (twenty-two of these are enumerated)
- a saying
- an aggregate of sounds (whether forming a word or any part of a word)
- hearing
- hearsay
- intelligence
- learning
- listening
- name of a daughter of Atri and wife of Kardama
- news
- noise
- organ or power of hearing
- report
- rumour
- sacred knowledge orally transmitted by the Brāhmans from generation to generation
- saw
- scholarship
- sound
- that which has been heard or communicated from the beginning
- that which is heard or perceived with the ear
- the diagonal of a tetragon or hypothenuse of a triangle
- the ear
- the Veda
- title
- word
Sememes
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