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)

heat, be hot

Derived terms

तप (tapa)
तपन (tapana)
तप्त (tapta)
तपस् (tapas)
तपस्य (tapasya)

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.

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