तपस्वी

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit तपस्वी (tapasvī), a compound of तपस्य (tapasya, “austere meditation, asceticism”) +‎ -ई (-ī, agent suffix, from -इन् (-in)); the first element literally means "produced by heat" and comes from तपस् (tapas, “warmth”), from the root तप् (tap, “to heat”), but by semantic shift for religious context, the meaning of "warmth" was compared to the pain of austere meditation or the "burning" of past karma.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Delhi) IPA^(key): /t̪ə.pəs.ʋiː/, [t̪ɐ.pɐs.ʋiː]

Noun

तपस्वी • (tapasvī) m (Urdu spelling تپسوی)

(religion) an ascetic; devotee of god
ये तपस्वी वन में रहते हैं।
ye tapasvī van mẽ rahte ha͠i.
These ascetics live in the forest.

Declension

Declension of तपस्वी (masc ī-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	तपस्वी tapasvī	तपस्वी tapasvī
oblique	तपस्वी tapasvī	तपस्वियों tapasviyõ
vocative	तपस्वी tapasvī	तपस्वियो tapasviyo

Adjective

तपस्वी • (tapasvī) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling تپسوی)

ascetic

References

^ A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Greek, Latin, Gothic, German, Anglo-Saxon, and other cognate Indo-European Languages By Monier Williams, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, p. 363

[1] A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Greek, Latin, Gothic, German, Anglo-Saxon, and other cognate Indo-European Languages By Monier Williams, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, p. 363

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