सम्भव

From सम्- (sam-) +‎ भव (bhava). Compare सम्भवति (sambhavati, “to happen, be possible”) and सम्भूत (sambhūta, “united”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɐm.bʱɐ.ʋɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ɐm.bʱɐ.ʋɐ/

सम्भव • (sambhava) stem, m

1. being or coming together, meeting, union, intercourse (esp. sexual intercourse, cohabitation)
2. finding room in, being contained in
3. birth, production, origin, source, the being produced from
4. cause, reason, occasion
5. being brought about, occurrence, appearance
6. being, existence
7. capacity, ability, possibility
8. (rhetoric) a possible case
9. (philosophy) equivalence (regarded as one of the Pramāṇas, which see; illustrated by the equivalence between one shilling and pence)
10. agreement, conformity (esp. of the receptacle with the thing received)
11. compatibility, adequacy
12. acquaintance, intimacy
13. loss, destruction
14. (with Buddhists) name of a world
15. name of a prince
16. of the third Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī

सम्भव • (sambhava) stem

1. existing, being

• सम्भवन (sambhavana, “containing”)

• Pali: संभव m (saṃbhava, “origin”)
• Prakrit: संभव m (saṃbhava, “origin”)
• → Hindi: संभव (sambhav, “possible”) (learned), असंभव (asambhav, “impossible”), संभवतः (sambhavtaḥ, “possibly”)
• → Tamil: சம்பவம் (campavam)
• → Malayalam: സംഭവം (sambhavaṁ)

• Monier Williams (1899) “सम्भव”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 1178/2, 1179/1.