वस्तु

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वस्तु (vastu). Doublet of बस्त (bast).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ʋəs.t̪uː/, [ʋɐs.t̪uː]

वस्तु • (vastu) f (Urdu spelling وستو)

1. a thing
2. stuff
3. baggage
4. material
5. something real or existent
6. a commodity
7. essential property, nature, essence, substance
8. the object (of); the pith or substance (of)

• चीज़ (cīz)

• वस्तुनिष्ठता (vastuniṣṭhatā)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “वस्तु”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English Oxford. 1884.

Borrowed from Sanskrit वस्तु (vastu).

वस्तु • (vastu) n

1. thing, object

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɐs.tu/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɐs̪.t̪u/

From the root वस् (vas, “to dwell”); related to वास्तु (vāstu).

वस्तु • (vastu) stem, n

1. a thing
2. any really existing or abiding substance or essence, thing, object, article
3. seat, place
4. the thing in question, matter, affair, circumstance
5. the right thing, a valuable or worthy object, object of or for
6. substance, contents, or subject (of a poem, etc.)
7. goods, wealth, property
8. (music) a kind of composition
9. natural disposition, essential property
10. the pith or substance of anything

From the root वस् (vas, “to shine”).

वस्तु • (vástu) stem, f

1. becoming light, dawning, morning

• Monier Williams (1899) “वस्तु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 931/3, 932/3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 175; 198

• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “vastu”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.