The corpus record — Sanskrit
sma, smā, (or ṣma, ṣmā), ind. a particle perhaps originally equivalent to ‘ever’, ‘always’; and later to ‘indeed’, ‘certainly’, ‘verily’, ‘surely’ (it is often used pleonastically, and in earlier language generally follows a similar particle [ esp. ha, na], or relative, or prep. or verb, while in la
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1. سمَ
sma, smā, (or ṣma, ṣmā), ind. a particle perhaps originally equivalent to ‘ever’, ‘always’; and later to ‘indeed’, ‘certainly’, ‘verily’, ‘surely’ (it is often used pleonastically, and in earlier language generally follows a similar particle [ esp. ha, na], or relative, or prep. or verb, while in la
2. smā
sma, smā, (or ṣma, ṣmā), ind. a particle perhaps originally equivalent to ‘ever’, ‘always’; and later to ‘indeed’, ‘certainly’, ‘verily’, ‘surely’ (it is often used pleonastically, and in earlier language generally follows a similar particle [ esp. ha, na], or relative, or prep. or verb, while in la
3. ṣma
sma, smā, (or ṣma, ṣmā), ind. a particle perhaps originally equivalent to ‘ever’, ‘always’; and later to ‘indeed’, ‘certainly’, ‘verily’, ‘surely’ (it is often used pleonastically, and in earlier language generally follows a similar particle [ esp. ha, na], or relative, or prep. or verb, while in la
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