accusative singular masculine of bhava (noun)
Etymology. from √bhū 'to be, become'; cognate with English be, German bin, Latin fuī, Sanskrit bhavati. The abstract noun bhava literally means 'a becoming' or 'state of being', central to Buddhist doctrine as the process of repeated rebirth through saṁsāra.
Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.
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