तप्

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *tap-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tap-, from Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“to be warm”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *teplъ (“warm”), Latin tepeō whence English tepid.

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /tɐp/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /t̪ɐp/

Root

तप् • (tap)

1. heat, be hot

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root तप्‎ (0 c, 15 e)

Primary Verbal Forms

• तपति (tápati, Present)
• तप्यति (tápyati, Present)
• तप्स्यति (tapsyáti, Future)
• तप्ता (taptā́, Periphrastic Future)
• अताप्सीत् (átāpsīt, Aorist)
• तप्यात् (tapyā́t, Benedictive)
• तताप (tatā́pa, Perfective)

Secondary Verbal Forms

• तप्यते (tapyáte, Passive)
• अतापि (átāpi, Passive)
• तापयति (tāpáyati, Causative)
• अतीतपत् (átītapat, Causative)
• तितप्सति (titapsati, Desiderative)
• तातप्यते (tātapyate, Intensive)

Non-Finite Forms

• तप्तुम् (táptum, Infinitive)
• तप्तोस् (táptos, Infinitive)
• तप्त्वा (taptvā́, Gerund)
• तप्त (taptá, Past Passive Participle)

Derived Nominal Forms

• तप (tapa)
• तपन (tapana)
• तपस् (tapas)
• तपस्य (tapasya)
• तप्ति (tapti)

Prefixed Root Forms

• निष्टप् (niṣṭap, “to singe”)
• अतितप् (atitap, “to be very hot”)
• अनुतप् (anutap, “to heat, annoy”)
• अभितप् (abhitap, “to irradiate with heat”)
• संतप् (saṃtap, “to heat thoroughly”)
• आतप् (ātap, “to radiate heat”)
• अवतप् (avatap, “to radiate heat downwards”)
• उत्तप् (uttap, “make warm or hot”)

Descendants

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root तप्‎ (13 c, 0 e)

References

• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1956) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 477
• Monier Williams (1899), “तप्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0436.