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स्तभ्

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (to stand still, harden; prop up, support; pole). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *stьbъ (stem, stalk), Old Church Slavonic степень (stepenĭ, stair); English step, stop, stamp, stomp, stump, staff, stiff; Proto-Finnic *sambas (pillar) (whence sampo).

Pronunciation

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Root

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स्तभ् (stabh)

  1. to fix firmly, support, sustain, prop
  2. to hold up
  3. to stop, arrest, make stiff

Derived terms

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “स्तभ्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1258/1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 192
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “स्तभ्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “स्तभ्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 753; 754
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎[2] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 511