Smarta
noun
Smarta is a noun meaning “A follower of the Smartha Tradition, a denomination of the Vedic Hindu religion that accepts all major Hindu deities as forms of the one Brahman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-M-A-R-T-A, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Smarta is Smartas.
What does Smarta mean?
noun
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A follower of the Smartha Tradition, a denomination of the Vedic Hindu religion that accepts all major Hindu deities as forms of the one Brahman.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Smarta
- Smartas plural
- Smārta
- Smartha
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Smarta?
Smarta appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Smarta come from?
Borrowed from Sanskrit स्मार्त (smārta), an adjective derived from स्मृति (smṛti, “thinking, remembrance, related to memory”). Compare Smriti.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).