स्तु

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

  • स्तव् (stav)

Alternative scripts

Etymology

    From Proto-Indo-Aryan *staw-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *staw-, from Proto-Indo-European *stew- (to praise).

    Cognate with Persian ستودن (setudan, to praise, extol), Ancient Greek στεῦται (steûtai, to promise or threaten that one will), Hittite [script needed] (istuwa-, to become public).

    Pronunciation

    Root

    स्तु • (stu)

    1. to praise, laud, eulogize, extol, celebrate in song or hymns

    Derived terms

    Primary verbal forms
    • स्तौति॑ (stáuti, present)
    • स्तव॑ते (stávate, present)
    • स्तुनोति (stunoti, present)
    • स्तो॒ष्यति॑ (stoṣyáti, future)
    • स्त॒वि॒ष्यति॑ (staviṣyáti, future)
    • स्तोता (stotā, periphrastic future)
    • अस्तौ॑षीत् (ástauṣīt, aorist)
    • अस्ता॑वीत् (ástāvīt, aorist)
    • स्तूयात् (stūyāt, benedictive)
    • तु॒ष्टाव॑ (tuṣṭā́va, perfect)
    Secondary forms
    • स्तू॒यते॑ (stūyáte, passive)
    • अस्ता॑वि (ástāvi, passive aorist)
    • स्ता॒वय॑ति (stāváyati, causative)
    • अतु॑ष्टवत् (átuṣṭavat, causative aorist)
    • अतु॑ष्टुवत् (átuṣṭuvat, causative aorist)
    • तुष्टूषति (tuṣṭūṣati, desiderative)
    • तोष्टूयते (toṣṭūyate, intensive)
    Non-finite forms
    • स्तु॒त (stutá, past participle)
    • स्तोतुम् (stotum, infinitive)
    • स्तोत॑वे (stótave, infinitive)
    • स्त॒वध्यै॑ (stavádhyai, infinitive)
    • स्तु॒त्वा (stutvā́, gerund)
    • स्तुत्य॑ (stútya, gerund)
    • स्तोतव्य (stotavya, gerundive)
    • स्तव्य (stavya, gerundive)
    • स्तुत्य (stutya, gerundive)
    Derived nominal forms
    Prefixed root forms
    • अभिष्टु (abhiṣṭu)
    • अतिष्टु (atiṣṭu)
    • अनुष्टु (anuṣṭu)
    • उपस्तु (upastu)
    • परिष्टु (pariṣṭu)
    • प्रस्तु (prastu)
    • संस्तु (saṃstu)
    Sanskrit terms belonging to the root स्तु (0 c, 7 e)
    Terms derived from the Sanskrit root स्तु (9 c, 0 e)

    References

    • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “स्तु”, 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), “स्तु”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
    • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “STAV”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 757-8
    • Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 475-6
    • Cheung, Johnny (2007), Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 366