As a deity name
Name 277 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
प्रतापन · noun · masculine
पीडन । कष्ट पहुँचाना · कुंभी- पाक नरक · विष्णु — Śabdasāgara
प्रतापन · adj
क्लेश देनेवाला । कष्ट देनेवाला — Śabdasāgara
प्रतापन · pratāpan · adj.
Burning; inflicting pain paining — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 239
Cited formation "प्रतापन" is प्र- + तापन: तापन means "Heating, warming, burning, inflaming", and the prefix प्र- forms excess, very, forward. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "प्रतापन" is प्रताप + -न: प्रताप means "opulence, majesty, glory", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
warming, heating, turning, paining, distressing
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Dictionary citations
pra-˚tāpana mfn. making hot, paining, tormenting, MBh.; R.; Suśr.
pra-˚tāpana m. N. of Śiva, Śivag.
a partic. hell, BhP.
pra-˚tāpana n. warming, heating, turning, paining, distressing, MBh.; Suśr.
pratāpana a. 1 Warming. 2 Distressing. — naṃ 1 Burning, heating, warming. 2 Paining, tormenting, inflicting punishment. — naḥ N. of a hell.
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