"तु" meaning in Sanskrit

See तु in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Particle

IPA: /tú/ [Vedic], /t̪u/ [Classical-Sanskrit] Forms: tú [romanization]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóder.? Sanskrit तु (tu) According to Mayrhofer, somehow related to Proto-Germanic *þau (“in that case”), from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”) + *-we (“or”) by early contraction. Etymology templates: {{etymon|sa|der|unc|ine-pro>*só>this|id=but|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóder.? Sanskrit तु (tu), {{cog|gem-pro|*þau|t=in that case}} Proto-Germanic *þau (“in that case”), {{inh|sa|ine-pro|*to-||that}} Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”) Head templates: {{head|sa|particle|tr=tú}} तु • (tú)
  1. pray, I beg, do
    Sense id: en-तु-sa-particle-vcJI98iY Categories (other): Sanskrit entries with etymology trees, Sanskrit entries with incorrect language header, Sanskrit particles, Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations Disambiguation of Sanskrit entries with etymology trees: 100 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Sanskrit entries with incorrect language header: 100 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Sanskrit particles: 100 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 100 0 0 0
  2. but
    Sense id: en-तु-sa-particle-zcKZN4hx
  3. and
    Sense id: en-तु-sa-particle-YgERG4Og
  4. or
    Sense id: en-तु-sa-particle-cXVRejcL
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: तू (tū) (english: metrical variant) Derived forms: परं तु (paraṃ tu) (english: though, still, not), किं तु (kiṃ tu) (english: but)

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "though, still, not",
      "roman": "paraṃ tu",
      "word": "परं तु"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "but",
      "roman": "kiṃ tu",
      "word": "किं तु"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "der",
        "3": "unc",
        "4": "ine-pro>*só>this",
        "id": "but",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *sóder.?\nSanskrit तु (tu)",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*þau",
        "t": "in that case"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *þau (“in that case”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*to-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "that"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *sóder.?\nSanskrit तु (tu)\nAccording to Mayrhofer, somehow related to Proto-Germanic *þau (“in that case”), from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”) + *-we (“or”) by early contraction.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tú",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "particle",
        "tr": "tú"
      },
      "expansion": "तु • (tú)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Sanskrit",
  "lang_code": "sa",
  "pos": "particle",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "100 0 0 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sanskrit entries with etymology trees",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with etymology trees",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0 0 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sanskrit entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0 0 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sanskrit particles",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0 0 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pray, I beg, do"
      ],
      "id": "en-तु-sa-particle-vcJI98iY",
      "links": [
        [
          "pray",
          "pray"
        ],
        [
          "beg",
          "beg"
        ],
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 4.18.6"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "but"
      ],
      "id": "en-तु-sa-particle-zcKZN4hx",
      "links": [
        [
          "but",
          "but"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "c. 200 BCE – 200 CE, Manusmṛti 2.22"
        },
        {
          "english": "8. When the astute dispel negligence by means of diligence,\nhaving ascended the palace of wisdom, the sorrow-free then behold this generation of sorrow,\nas a wise man on a mountain-top beholds the fools below.",
          "ref": "(Can we date this quote?), The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi) (subsequently translated from Pali to Sanskrit), Appamādavaɡɡa, page 32; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya, Colombo, 2009:",
          "roman": "8 Pramādamapramādena yadā nudati paṇḍitaḥ\nPrajñāprasādamāruhya tvaśokaḥ śokinīṃ prajām\nParvatastha iva bhūmiṣṭhān dhīro bālānavekṣate",
          "text": "8. ප්රමාදමප්රමාදෙන යදා නුදති පණ්ඩිතඃ\nප්රඥාප්රසාදමාරුහ්ය ත්වශොකඃ ශොකිනීං ප්රජාම්\nපර්වතස්ථ ඉව භූමිෂ්ඨාන් ධීරො බාලානවෙක්ෂතෙ",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "and"
      ],
      "id": "en-तु-sa-particle-YgERG4Og",
      "links": [
        [
          "and",
          "and"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "or"
      ],
      "id": "en-तु-sa-particle-cXVRejcL",
      "links": [
        [
          "or",
          "or"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tú/",
      "tags": [
        "Vedic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t̪u/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Sanskrit"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "metrical variant",
      "roman": "tū",
      "word": "तू"
    }
  ],
  "word": "तु"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Sanskrit entries with etymology trees",
    "Sanskrit entries with incorrect language header",
    "Sanskrit lemmas",
    "Sanskrit particles",
    "Sanskrit terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Sanskrit terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Sanskrit terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "though, still, not",
      "roman": "paraṃ tu",
      "word": "परं तु"
    },
    {
      "english": "but",
      "roman": "kiṃ tu",
      "word": "किं तु"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "der",
        "3": "unc",
        "4": "ine-pro>*só>this",
        "id": "but",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *sóder.?\nSanskrit तु (tu)",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*þau",
        "t": "in that case"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *þau (“in that case”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*to-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "that"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *sóder.?\nSanskrit तु (tu)\nAccording to Mayrhofer, somehow related to Proto-Germanic *þau (“in that case”), from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”) + *-we (“or”) by early contraction.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tú",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "particle",
        "tr": "tú"
      },
      "expansion": "तु • (tú)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Sanskrit",
  "lang_code": "sa",
  "pos": "particle",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "pray, I beg, do"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pray",
          "pray"
        ],
        [
          "beg",
          "beg"
        ],
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 4.18.6"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "but"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "but",
          "but"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Requests for date",
        "Sanskrit terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "c. 200 BCE – 200 CE, Manusmṛti 2.22"
        },
        {
          "english": "8. When the astute dispel negligence by means of diligence,\nhaving ascended the palace of wisdom, the sorrow-free then behold this generation of sorrow,\nas a wise man on a mountain-top beholds the fools below.",
          "ref": "(Can we date this quote?), The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi) (subsequently translated from Pali to Sanskrit), Appamādavaɡɡa, page 32; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya, Colombo, 2009:",
          "roman": "8 Pramādamapramādena yadā nudati paṇḍitaḥ\nPrajñāprasādamāruhya tvaśokaḥ śokinīṃ prajām\nParvatastha iva bhūmiṣṭhān dhīro bālānavekṣate",
          "text": "8. ප්රමාදමප්රමාදෙන යදා නුදති පණ්ඩිතඃ\nප්රඥාප්රසාදමාරුහ්ය ත්වශොකඃ ශොකිනීං ප්රජාම්\nපර්වතස්ථ ඉව භූමිෂ්ඨාන් ධීරො බාලානවෙක්ෂතෙ",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "and"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "and",
          "and"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "or"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "or",
          "or"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tú/",
      "tags": [
        "Vedic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t̪u/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Sanskrit"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "metrical variant",
      "roman": "tū",
      "word": "तू"
    }
  ],
  "word": "तु"
}

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