హేతువు
Telugu
Etymology
From Sanskrit हेतु (hetu, “impulse, motive, cause, cause of, reason”) + -వు (-vu)
Noun
హేతువు • (hētuvu) m (plural హేతువులు)
- cause, reason, ground, motive, object, purpose.
Derived terms
- హేతువాదము (hētuvādamu, “rationalism”)
- హేతువాది (hētuvādi, “rationalist”)
References
- “హేతువు” in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1392