@holatombola I think they list it that way because it's given in Hemachandra's Deśīnāmamālā alongside six meanings (wonder, marriage, mustard seed, smeared, oily, and oil bottle), see 5.22 below.
@holatombola It may be a loan from Kannada, but why do you say it's not possible to derive from tṛpraḥ? Isn't it possible to derive if we assume it falls in ṛtvādi group? @prakrit_hitaay
tṛpraḥ
→ tupraḥ (ud ṛtvādiṣu)
→ tuppaḥ (śeṣādeśayor dvitvam anādau)
→ tuppo (ata ot soḥ)
tṛpraḥ
→ tupraḥ (ud ṛtvādiṣu)
→ tuppaḥ (śeṣādeśayor dvitvam anādau)
→ tuppo (ata ot soḥ)
@holatombola @prakrit_hitaay I think that the problem is that tṛpra isn't used very often in literature, if at all, to mean clarified butter. The UṇSū. 2.13 does lists "tṛpi" as one of the roots that take the ending "rak," but the commentaries give the meaning of Vedic rice-cake. See below:
@holatombola @prakrit_hitaay So the "clarified butter" sense that's given in later lexicons it may simply be a back-formation, if that makes sense.
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