As a Hindi name
यूप
संज्ञ पुं॰ · यज्ञ में वह खंभा जिसमें बलि का पशु बाँधा जाता है · वह स्तंभ जो किसी विजय अथवा कीर्ति आदि की स्मृति में बनाया गया हो — Śabdasāgara
यूप · noun · masculine
शहतूत का वृक्ष · जूस । दाल आदि का पानी । झोल — Śabdasāgara
यूप · yūp · s.m.
See the pop. form جوپ jūp — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1253
यूप · masculine
post or stake to which a sacrificial animal is tied to
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi यूप — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit यूप (yūpa).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
yūpa m. (prob. fr. √ yup; but according to Uṇ. iii, 27, fr. √ 2. yu) a post, beam, pillar, (esp.) a smooth post or stake to which the sacrificial victim is fastened, any sacrificial post or stake (usually made of bamboos or Khadira wood; in R. i, 13, 24; 25, where the horse sacrifice is described, 21 of these posts are set up, 6 made of Bilva, 6 of Khadira, 6 of Palāśa, one of Uḍumbara, one of Śleṣmātaka, and one of Deva-dāru), RV. &c. &c.
a column erected in honour of victory, a trophy (= jaya-stambha), L.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a post, beam, pillar, (esp.) a smooth post or stake to which the sacrificial victim is fastened, any sacrificial post or stake (usually made of bamboos or Khadira wood; in; where t…
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yūpa m. (prob. fr. √ yup; but according to Uṇ. iii, 27, fr. √ 2. yu) a post, beam, pillar, (esp.) a smooth post or stake to which the sacrificial victim is fastened, any sacrificial post or stake (usually made of bamboos or Khadira wood; in R. i, 13, 24; 25, where the horse sacrifice is described, 21 of these posts are set up, 6 made of Bilva, 6 of Khadira, 6 of Palāśa, one of Uḍumbara, one of Śleṣmātaka, and one of Deva-dāru), RV. &c. &c.
a column erected in honour of victory, a trophy (= jaya-stambha), L.
N. of a partic. conjunction of the class Ākṛti-yoga (i.e. when all the planets are situated in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th houses), VarBṛS.
yūpa mn. (-paḥ-paṃ) 1 A sacrificial post, a pillar usually made of bambus, or the wood of the Khadira, to which the victim at a sacrifice is bound. 2 A trophy, a column erected in honour of a victory. E. yu to bind (the victim), pa Uṇādi aff.
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