Word Origin Summary

भव is attested in Sanskrit. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *bʰuH-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• ភាព

  Central Khmer · borrowed from

• ayubowan

  English · borrowed from

• Unsupported titles/Thai name of Bangkok

  Thai · borrowed from

• ආයුබෝවන්

  Sinhalese · derived from

• ภพ

  Thai · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root