Etymograph

English

Simran

Simran comes from Punjabi ਸਿਮਰਨ ‘memory, remembering, repetition’, and goes back to Sanskrit स्मरण.

  1. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEस्मरण‘remembrance, memory’
  2. Punjabimodernਸਿਮਰਨsimran‘memory, remembering, repetition’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2023Simran

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEस्मरण‘remembrance, memory’
  2. Punjabimodernਸਿਮਰਨsimran‘memory, remembering, repetition’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2023Simran

Earliest quotation: 2023, Lubaina Najmi, An Open Letter to SRK: “I was in high school when I watched DDLJ…”

Today it means

name A unisex given name from Punjabi.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Sanskrit स्मरण / Simran