The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

abhavissa It 37; Vin i.13; D ii.57; M iii.163; J i.267; ii.112 (na bhavissa=n!bhavissa?); 3rd pl. abhavissa'su
Vin i.13. 1st aor. (orig. pret. of *huvati, cp. hupeyya Pot.; see Geiger P.Gr. 1312, 1622): 1st sg. ahuv! S
i.36, with by -- form (see aor.) ahuv!si' Vv 826; 2nd ahuv! ibid., 3rd ahuv! Vv 8124; J ii.106; iii.131; 1st
pl. ahuv!ma M i.93; ii.214, & ahuvamha ibid.; 2nd ahuvattha S iv.112; M i.445; DhA i.57. 2nd aor.
(simple aor., with pret. endings): 1st sg. ahu' Pv ii.32 (v. l. BB ahu) (=ahosi' PvA 83); 2nd ahu (sk. abh(1)
Pv ii.35; 3rd ah( (Sk. abh(t) Sn 139, 312, 504 and passim; Pv i.23, & ahu Pv i.93; i.113; & bhavi DhA
i.329 (p!tubhavi); 1st pl. ahumh! (Sk. abh(ma) Pv i.116, & ahumha J i.362; DhA i.57. -- 3rd aor. (s aor.)
1st sg. ahosi' Th 1, 620; J i.106; VvA 321: PvA 10 (=!si'); 2nd ahosi J i.107; 3rd ahosi Sn 835; Vin i.23;
1st pl. ahesumha M i.265; 3rd ahesu' D ii.5; Vv 744; J i.149; DhA i.327; & bhavi'su (Sk. abh!vi+u1) DhA
iv.15. -- Of medial forms we mention the 1st pl. pres. bhav!mahe Mhvs i.65, and the 3rd sg, pret. ahuvattha
VvA 103. -- Inf. bhavitu' Sn 552, & hetuye Bu ii.10. -- ger. bhavitv! Sn 56, hutv! Sn 43, & hutv!na Sn
281. -- grd. bhavitabba J i.440; vi.368; hotabba Vin i.46; bhabba (Sk. bhavya); see sep.; bhuyya see cpd.
abhibhuyya. -- Caus. bh!veti see sep. -- pp. bh(ta. Note. In compn with nouns or adjectives the final vowel
of these is changed into ", as in combn of the same with the root k%, e. g. bhasm"bhavati to be reduced to
ashes, cp. bhasm" -- kara*a s. v. bhasma, etc. -- II. Meanings. In general the meaning "to become, to get"
prevails, but many shades of it are possible according to context & combinations. It is impossible &
unnecessary to enumerate all shades of meaning, only a few idiomatic uses may be pointed out. -- 1. to
happen, to occur, to befall J vi.368. -- 2. The fut. bhavissati "is certainly," "must be" DhA iii.171 (s!tthik!
desan! bh.); Miln 40 (m!t! ti pi na bh.). 3. Imper. hotu as adv. "very well" Miln 18 (hotu bhante very
well, sir). -- 4. aor. in meaning and as substitute of !si', pret. of as to be; etad ahosi this occurred to him
DhA i.399 (ass! etad ahosi "this thought struck her").
Bhavatta
Bhavatta (nt.) [abstr. fr. bh(] the fact of being, state, con- dition KhA 227.
Bhavana
Bhavana (nt.) [fr. bh(] dwelling, sphere, world, realm S i.206, Sn 810 (see expln Nd1 132: nerayik!na'
nirayo bh. etc. & SnA 534: niray' !di -- bhede bhavane); Nd1 448 (Inda˚ the realm of Indra); J iii.275
(n!ga˚ the world of the N!gas).
Bhavant
Bhavant [cp. Sk. (& Vedic) bhavant, used as pron. of the 2nd; but constructed with 3rd person of the verb.
Probably a contraction fr. bhagavant, see Whitney, Altind. Gr. 456] pron. of polite address "Sir, Lord," or
"venerable, honourable," or simply "you." Cases as follows (after Geiger, P.Gr. § 983): sg. nom. bhava' Sn
486; D i.249; M i.484. nt. bhava' M iii.172. acc. bhavanta' Sn 597; D ii.231; instr. bhot! D i.93, 110; S
iv.120. gen. bhoto Sn 565; M i.486; voc. bhava' D i.93 & bho D i.93; M i.484; J ii.26. See bho also sep. --
pl. nom. bhavanto Sn p. 107 (only as v. l.; T. bhagavanto), & bhonto ibid.; M ii.2; Miln 25; acc. bhavante
M ii.3; instr. bhavantehi M iii.13; gen. bhavata' M ii.3; voc. bhonto Th 1, 832; M ii.2; -- f. bhot": sg. nom.
bhot" Sn 988; J iii.95; acc. bhoti' J vi.523; loc. bhotiy! ibid. voc. bhoti ibid.; D ii.249. -- On form bhante
see this.
Bhaveyya
Bhaveyya [cp. Class. Sk. bhavya] a sort of tree, perhaps Averrhoa carambola J vi.529.
Bhasati
Bhasati [cp. Epic Sk. bha+ate] to bark (of dogs) J iv.182 (aor. bhasi; so read for T. bhusi). -- pp. bhasita' (as
n.) bark ibid. (mah! -- bhasita' bhasi, read for bhusita). See also bhusati.