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stupa.

to stoop, to steep

5 characters2 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

verb/²stʉːpa/
  1. to stoop, to steep to fall (head over heels)

  2. to stoop, to steep to fall (die) in battle; to be killed in action

    Den tredje söndagen i maj är de stupades dag i Finland
  3. to stoop, to steep to fall asleep, exhausted (like a fallen warrior)

  4. to stoop, to steep to slope steeply, to be steep

    branta kalkstensklippor som stupar ner mot de slingrande floderna Dordogne och Vézère.
  5. alternative form of stöpa (“to dop”)

    alt-of · alternative
  6. alternative form of stöpa (“to dop”) to dip candle wicks in candle wax to make candles

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Swedish stupa, from Proto-Germanic *stūpaną. Cognate of English stoop (“crouch”), steep.

noun/²stʉːpa/
  1. A stupa; a Buddhist monument.

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

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