भू

Borrowed from Sanskrit भू (bhū).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /bʱuː/

भू • (bhū) f

1. the Earth

   Synonyms: पृथ्वी (pŕthvī), धरती (dhartī)

2. land, earth

   Synonyms: भूमि (bhūmi), ज़मीन (zamīn)

From Old Marathi 𑘥𑘴 (bhū), from Sanskrit भू (bhū).

• IPA^(key): /bʱu/,

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भू • (bhū) f

1. the earth

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “भू”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “भू”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Shridhar Ganesh Vaze (1911) “भू”, in The Aryabhusan School Dictionary, Poona: Arya-Bhushan Press
• Shankar Gopal Tulpule, Anne Feldhaus (1999) “भू”, in A Dictionary of Old Marathi, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan

भू (bhū) f

1. Devanagari form of 𑘥𑘴 (bhū)

भू f

1. Devanagari script form of bhū (“the earth”)

भू f

1. Devanagari script form of bhū (“eyebrow”)

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, be, grow, rise up”). Cognates include Ancient Greek φύω (phúō), Avestan 𐬠𐬎 (bu), Latin fui, fīō, Proto-Germanic *buskaz, *beuną, and Old English beon (whence English be).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /bʱúː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /bʱuː/

भू • (bhū)

1. to be, become

• भव् (bhav)

Primary Verbal Forms

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Prefixed Root Forms

भू • (bhū́) stem, f

1. the act of becoming or arising
2. the place of being, space, world or universe
3. the earth (as constituting one of the 3 worlds)
4. (figuratively) one (number)
5. earth (as a substance), ground, soil, land, landed property
6. floor, pavement
7. a place, spot, piece of ground
8. the base of any geometric figure
9. object, matter
10. a sacrificial fire

• Pali: bhū
• → Hindi: भू (bhū)

• Monier Williams (1899) “भू”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 760.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 113
• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “भू”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 255-257; 267