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bhūtesu

bhūta

masc loc pl of bhūta (pp); nt loc pl of bhūta (pp); nt loc pl of bhūta (noun); masc loc pl of bhūta (noun)

1. existing; born; living; lit. become
2. true; correct; genuine; accurate; lit. become
3. being; living being; entity; lit. become
4. become; born
5. state; elemental state; element; lit. become
6. plant; lit. grown
7. born being; animal; creature; lit. become
8. like; as; similar to; lit. become
9. …

Built from

• bhū — root · become, be
  The root expresses coming-into-being and existence. Cognates: English be, Latin fuī, Greek phuein (nature); from PIE *bheuh₂- 'to grow, become'. In Buddhist thought, bhūta captures both the dynamic sense of becoming and the static sense of what-is.
• -ta — ending · past participle
  Forms the past participle from the root, marking 'that which has become'; here nominalized as 'being, entity'. The ending integrates with locative plural inflection -su.

Etymology. From √bhū (become, be), cognate with English be, Sanskrit bhavati, Greek phuein (physis, nature), Latin fuī (perfect of esse). The past participle sense 'that which has become' → 'existing thing, being' is central to the word's doctrinal role in the canon: bhūta-grāma means 'the totality of beings', and mahābhūta denotes the four great elements (earth, water, fire, wind) that constitute all material form.

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

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