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bahū

bahu

masc nom pl of bahu (adj); fem nom pl of bahu (adj); nt nom pl of bahu (adj); masc acc pl of bahu (adj); …

1. bahu (adj): many; much; lots; a lot (of); great; large
2. bahū (masc): many people; many things; much; a lot

Etymology. From Indo-European *bʰeh₂gu- (small, little), whence Sanskrit bahu, Greek mikros (μικρός) is unrelated. The semantic shift from 'small in quantity' (as in 'sparse, scanty') to 'many, much' occurred in the Indic branch. Related to English bough (a small branch, part of a tree), though the connection is remote.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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