# भव
## Old Awadhi
### Etymology

From Sanskrit भव (bhava).

### Noun

भव (bhava)
* world, wordly existence
** c. 1500s CE, Tulsīdās, Rāmacaritamānasa :बंदऊँ गुरु पद पदुम परागा। सुरुचि सुबास सरस अनुरागा॥ अमिअ मूरिमय चूरन चारू। समन सकल भव रुज परिवारू॥baṃdaūm̐ guru pada paduma parāgā. suruci subāsa sarasa anurāgā. amia mūrimaya cūrana cārū. samana sakala bhava ruja parivārū.I bow to the pollen of the Guru's lotus-feet, fragrant with love and nectared with devotion. The beautiful powder enriched with the life-giving herb, capable of curing a family from entire worldly ailments.

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* bhava (Latin script)
* 𑀪𑀯 (Brahmi script)
* ভৰ (Bengali script)
* භව (Sinhalese script)
* ဘဝ or ꧤဝ (Burmese script)
* ภว or ภะวะ (Thai script)
* ᨽᩅ (Tai Tham script)
* ຠວ or ຠະວະ or ຠະວະ (Lao script)
* ភវ (Khmer script)
* 𑄞𑅇 (Chakma script)

### Noun

भव m
* state of existence

#### Declension
### Verb

भव
* Devanagari script form of bhava, which is an inflection of भवति:
** imperfect active first/third-person singular
** imperative active second-person singular (bhavati, “to become”)

## Sanskrit
### Alternative scripts

* ভৱ (Assamese script)
* ᬪᬯ (Balinese script)
* ভব (Bengali script)
* 𑰥𑰪 (Bhaiksuki script)
* 𑀪𑀯 (Brahmi script)
* ဘဝ (Burmese script)
* ભવ (Gujarati script)
* ਭਵ (Gurmukhi script)
* 𑌭𑌵 (Grantha script)
* ꦨꦮ (Javanese script)
* 𑂦𑂫 (Kaithi script)
* ಭವ (Kannada script)
* ភវ (Khmer script)
* ຠວ (Lao script)
* ഭവ (Malayalam script)
* ᢨᠠᠸᠠ (Manchu script)
* 𑘥𑘪 (Modi script)
* ᠪᠾᠠᠸᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
* 𑧅𑧊 (Nandinagari script)
* 𑐨𑐰 (Newa script)
* ଭଵ (Odia script)
* ꢩꢮ (Saurashtra script)
* 𑆨𑆮 (Sharada script)
* 𑖥𑖪 (Siddham script)
* භව (Sinhalese script)
* 𑩳𑩾 (Soyombo script)
* 𑚡𑚦 (Takri script)
* ப⁴வ (Tamil script)
* భవ (Telugu script)
* ภว (Thai script)
* བྷ་ཝ (Tibetan script)
* 𑒦𑒫 (Tirhuta script)
* 𑨡𑨭 (Zanabazar Square script)

### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰawH-ás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰowH-ós, an innovated verb stem derived from *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).

### Noun

भव • (bhavá) stem, m (root भू)
* coming into existence, birth, production, origin (= भाव Vop. ; ifc., with f( आ). = arising or produced from, being in, relating to) Yājñ. MBh. Kāv. &c.
* becoming, turning into (comp.) Kāṭh.
* being, state of being, existence, life (= सत्-ता L.) ṠārṅgP. (cf. भवान्तर)
* worldly existence, the world (= संसार L.) Kāv. Pur.
* (Buddhism) continuity of becoming (a link in the twelvefold chain of causation) Dharmas. 42 (MWB. 102)
* well-being, prosperity, welfare, excellence (= श्रेयस् L.) MBh. Kāv. &c.
* obtaining, acquisition (= आप्ति, प्राप्ति) L.
* a god, deity. W.

### Proper noun

भव • (bhavá) stem, m (root भू)
* name of a deity attending on Rudra and frequently connected with शर्व (later name of शिव or a form of Shiva)
* name of the 1st and 4th Kalpa

#### Declension

* ¹Vedic

#### Derived terms

* भवन (bhavana)
* भवानी (bhavānī)

#### Descendants

* Tamil: பவம் (pavam)
* Telugu: భవము (bhavamu), భవుడు (bhavuḍu)

### References

* Monier Williams (1899) “भव”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 748, column 3.
* Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 48: “*bʰou̯h₂-ó-”