तपस्वी

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Hindi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sanskrit तपस्वी (tapasvī), a compound of तपस्य (tapasya, austere meditation, asceticism) +‎ -ई (, 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

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

Noun

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तपस्वी (tapasvīm (Urdu spelling تپسوی)

  1. (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

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See also

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Adjective

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तपस्वी (tapasvī) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling تپسوی)

  1. ascetic

References

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  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