హేతువు

Telugu

Etymology

From Sanskrit हेतु (hetu, “impulse, motive, cause, cause of, reason”) +‎ -వు (-vu).

Noun

హేతువు • (hētuvu) m (plural హేతువులు)

1. cause, reason, ground, motive, object, purpose.

Derived terms

• హేతువాదము (hētuvādamu, “rationalism”)
• హేతువాది (hētuvādi, “rationalist”)

References

• "హేతువు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1392