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Borrowed from Sanskrit सेतु (setu).

  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /seː.t̪uː/

सेतु • (setu) m (Urdu spelling سیتو)

  1. bridge

Declension of सेतु (masc u-stem)

singular plural
direct सेतु
setu 		सेतु
setu
oblique सेतु
setu 		सेतुओं
setuõ
vocative सेतु
setu 		सेतुओ
setuo

Alternative scripts

सेतु m

  1. Devanagari script form of setu (“embankment”)

सेतु

  1. Devanagari script form of setu, which is third-person singular imperative active of सेति (seti, “to sleep”)

Alternative scripts

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *sHáytuš (“bridge, dam”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂éy-tu-s ~ *sh₂i-téw-s, from *sh₂ey- (“to bind”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬎 (haētu, “bridge, dam”), Ossetian хид (xid, “bridge”), Latin saeta.

सेतु • (sétu) stem

  1. binding

सेतु • (sétu) stem, m

  1. a bridge
    1. a dam
    2. a ridge of earth, mound, bank, causeway, dike
    3. any raised piece of ground separating fields (serving as a boundary or as a passage during inundations)
  2. a bond, fetter

    • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 9.73.4:

      स॒हस्र॑धा॒रेऽव॒ ते सम॑स्वरन्दि॒वो नाके॒ मधु॑जिह्वा अस॒श्चत॑:।
      अस्य॒ स्पशो॒ न नि मि॑षन्ति॒ भूर्ण॑यः प॒देप॑दे पा॒शिन॑: सन्ति॒ सेत॑वः॥
      sahásradhāréʼva té sámasvarandivó nā́ke mádhujihvā asaścáta:.
      ásya spáśo ná ní miṣanti bhū́rṇayaḥ padépade pāśína: santi sétavaḥ.
      Sweet-tongued, exhaustless, they have sent their voices down togetlier, in heaven's vault that pours a thousand streams.
      His wildly-restless warders never close an eye: in every place are found the bonds that bind man last.
  3. a help to the understanding of a text, an explanatory commentary
  4. an established institution, fixed rule