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• sati
  sati

  noun

  a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
• Sati
  Sati

  noun

  the wife of Rudra, who immolated herself following a quarrel between her father and her husband.

sati

¹ American  

[suh-tee, suht-ee] / sʌˈti, ˈsʌt i /

Or satī,

noun

1. a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.

2. a Hindu widow who so immolates herself.

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Sati ² American  

[suh-tee, suht-ee] / sʌˈti, ˈsʌt i /

Or Satī

noun

Hindu Mythology.

1. the wife of Rudra, who immolated herself following a quarrel between her father and her husband.

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Etymology

Origin of sati

First recorded in 1780–90, sati is from the Sanskrit word satī good woman, woman devoted to her husband