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Hindi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तुति (stuti).
Pronunciation
Noun
स्तुति • (stuti) f
- praise, lauding; invocation
c. 1950,
Shriram Sharma,
Rigveda Samhita 1.1.1:
- हम अग्निदेव की स्तुति करते हैं जो यज्ञ के पुरोहित, देवता, ऋत्विज, होता, और याचकों को रत्नों से विभूषित करने वाले हैं ॥
- ham agnidev kī stuti karte ha͠i jo yajña ke purohit, devtā, ŕtvij, hotā, aur yācakõ ko ratnõ se vibhūṣit karne vāle ha͠i .
- We laud Agni, the chosen Priest, God, minister of sacrifice,
The hotar, lavishest of wealth.
Declension
Declension of स्तुति (fem i-stem)
Proper noun
स्तुति • (stuti) f
- a female given name, Stuti, from Sanskrit
Further reading
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
From the root स्तु (stu, “to laud, praise”) + -ति (-ti).
Pronunciation
Noun
स्तुति • (stutí) stem, f
- praise, eulogy, panegyric, commendation, adulation
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 8.1.16:
- आ त्व१॒॑द्य स॒धस्तु॑तिं वा॒वातु॒: सख्यु॒रा ग॑हि।
उप॑स्तुतिर्म॒घोनां॒ प्र त्वा॑व॒त्वधा॑ ते वश्मि सुष्टु॒तिम्॥- ā́ tvàdyá sadhástutiṃ vāvā́tu: sákhyurā́ gahi.
úpastutirmaghónāṃ prá tvāvatvádhā te vaśmi suṣṭutím. - Come now onto the common praise of you and your faithful friend.
So may our wealthy nobles' praise give joy to you. Fain would I sing your eulogy.
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899) “स्तुति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1259.
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “stuti”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “स्तुति”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “स्तुति”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “stuti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press