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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From the root स्तु (stu, “to praise, laud”) + -म (-ma).
Pronunciation
Noun
स्तोम • (stóma) stem, m (root स्तु)
- praise, eulogy
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 5.2.11:
- ए॒तं ते॒ स्तोमं॑ तुविजात॒ विप्रो॒ रथं॒ न धीर॒: स्वपा॑ अतक्षम्।
यदीद॑ग्ने॒ प्रति॒ त्वं दे॑व॒ हर्या॒: स्व॑र्वतीर॒प ए॑ना जयेम॥- etáṃ te stómaṃ tuvijāta vípro ráthaṃ ná dhī́ra: svápā atakṣam.
yádī́dagne práti tváṃ deva háryā: svàrvatīrapá enā jayema. - This praise have I, a devout worshipper, composed for you, (Agni), who are born with many (faculties), as a steady dexterous (artisan fabricates) a car; if, divine Agni, you approve of it, then may we obtain abundant flowing water.
- a fundamental form of chant in Vedic ritual consisting of 7 parts
- mass, quantity, multitude
Declension
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “स्तोम”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1259, column 2.
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “स्तोम”, 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) “स्तोम”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press