As a Hindi name
ताप · noun · masculine
एक प्राकृतिक शक्ति जिसका प्रभाव पदार्थों के पिघलने, भाप बनने आदि व्यापारों में देखा जाता है और जिसका अनुभव अग्नि, सूर्य की किरण आदि के रूप में इंद्रियों को होता है । यह अग्नि का समान्य गुण है जिसकी अधिकता से पदार्थ जलते या पिघलेत हैं । उष्णता । गर्मी । तेज · आँच । लुपट · ज्वर । बुखार — Śabdasāgara
ताप · tāp · s.m.
Warmth, heat, burning; fever (com. tap); affliction, pain, sorrow, distress; passion — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 303
ताप · masculine
heat, warmth; fever
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi ताप — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit ताप (tāpá), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tāpás, from Proto-Indo-European *tep-.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
tāpa m. (√ 2. tap; g. uñchādi) heat, glow, Mn. xii, 76; Śak. &c. (ifc. f(ā). , Kum. vii, 84)
heating, Nyāyam. x, 1, 22
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
heat, glow, &c. (ifc. ā, )
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tāpa m. (√ 2. tap; g. uñchādi) heat, glow, Mn. xii, 76; Śak. &c. (ifc. f(ā). , Kum. vii, 84)
heating, Nyāyam. x, 1, 22
testing (gold) by heat, MBh. xii, 12357; Subh. (˚pana, GarP.)
pain (mental or physical), sorrow, affliction, MBh. &c.
fever, W.
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