As a Hindi name

प्रभाव · noun · masculine

उद्भव । प्रादुर्भाव · सामर्थ्य । शक्ति । कोई बात पैदा कर देने की ताकत । असर । जैसे,— मंत्र का बडा़ प्रभाव है · महिमा । माहात्म्य — Śabdasāgara

प्रभाव · pra-bhāv · s.m.

Might, power, puissance, force, strength, efficacy, influence, virtue; majesty, dignity, glory, grandeur superhuma strength or power; effect; high spirit, magnanimity — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 238

प्रभाव · masculine

effect, reaction, consequence; influence

Cited formation "प्रभाव" is प्र- + भाव: भाव means "rate, price", and the prefix प्र- forms excess, very, forward. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(14) — cited from the extracted rule table

Cited formation "प्रभाव" is प्रभ + -आव: प्रभ means "प्रभायुक्त । प्रकाशमय । चमकदार ( समासांत में प्रयुक्त ) जैसे, नीलांजनप्रभ", and the suffix -आव forms abstract nouns (masc.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(8) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara

a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi प्रभाव — per Wiktionary’s etymology record

“Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रभाव (prabhāva). By surface analysis, प्र- (pra-) + भाव (bhāv).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record