suttee

英式音标：suttee怎么读

美式音标：suttee怎么读

suttee词义

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n. 妻子的殉节；殉夫自焚的妻子

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1. It was quite unlikely that he should be arrested for preventing a suttee.: 为火葬的事抓我们?那绝对不可能!

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suttee (n.): "self-cremation of a Hindu widow on her husband's funeral pyre," 1786, from Hindi, from Sanskrit sati "virtuous woman, faithful wife," used also of the burning, fem. of sat "good, wise, virtuous, true," literally "existing," present participle of asmi "I am" (cognate with Latin esse; see essence). Properly, the word for the woman who does so. The custom was abolished in British India in 1829.