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bhavāni

bhava

nt nom pl of bhava (noun); nt acc pl of bhava (noun); nt voc pl of bhava (noun)

1. state of existence; form of becoming

Built from

• bhav- — root · be, become
  From Indo-European *bʰweh₂- "grow, thrive". The concrete sense "come into being, grow" underlies the abstract notion of becoming and existence. Cognates: English "be", German "Bau", Latin "futūrus".
• -ā — ending · nominative plural
  Marks the nominative, accusative, and vocative plural of neuter ā-stem nouns in Pali.

Etymology. From √bhū "to be, become" (Sanskrit bhavati, English "be", Latin "futūrus" "about to be"). The noun bhava denotes the process or state of being and becoming—central to Buddhist doctrine, where it names one of the twelve factors of dependent origination (paṭiccasamuppāda) and the three-fold conditioned existence (kāma-bhava, rūpa-bhava, arūpa-bhava). Cognate with Germanic *beuaną (English "be"), Latin "futūrus", Sanskrit "bhū".

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

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