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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -suttee-, *suttee*
Possible hiragana form: すってえ
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
suttee(n) การเผาตัวเองของแม่ม่ายในกองฟืนที่เผาศพสามี, Syn. sati, suicide

English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
suttee(ซูที', ซัท'ที) n. การเผาตัวเองของหญิงหม้ายฮินดูสมัยก่อนเพื่อให้ตายตามสามีที่ตายไปแล้ว, หญิงหม้ายฮินดูที่เผาตัวเอง เพื่อตายตามสามี., See also: sutteeism n.

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
suttee
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WordNet (3.0)
suttee(n) the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Suttee

n. [ Skr. satī a faithful wife, fem. of sant existing, real, true, good, p. pr. of as to be. Cf. Sooth. ] 1. A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character. [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband. [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The practice, though abolished in British India law in 1829, is not wholly prevented. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sutteeism

n. The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan. [ 1913 Webster ]

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