Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“fear”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“fear”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
भी · bhī · conj.
Also, too, even, and, with; yet, still, besides, likewise, moreover, furthermore — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 198
भी
even
भी
also, too
Śabdasāgara also records: भय । डर । खौफ
Cited formation "भी" is भ + -ई: भ means "the twenty-fourth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "भी" is भ + -ई: भ means "the twenty-fourth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit अपि — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀺 (vi), 𑀧𑀺 (pi), 𑀅𑀯𑀺 (avi), from Sanskrit अपि (api, “close by; also”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
api or sometimes pi (see pi-dṛbh, pi-dhā, pi-nah), expresses placing near or over, uniting to, annexing, reaching to, proximity, &c.
api [cf. Gk. ἐπί; Zend api; Germ. and Eng. prefix be]
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
fear, apprehension, fright, alarm, dread of (abl. loc. acc. with prati, or comp.), &c.
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M1 · same meaning "bhī" is the feminine form of "bha" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
1. bhī cl. 3. P. (Dhātup. xxv, 2) bibheti (du. bibhītas or bibhitas Pot. bibhīyāt or bibhiyāt, Pāṇ. vi, 4, 115; Pot. 3. pl. bibhyeyuḥ, MBh. xii, 459; impf. 3. pl. abibhayuḥ, Pāṇ. vii, 3, 83, Sch.; ep. also Ā. 1. sg. bibhye and and P. 3. sg. bibhyati pl. bibhyanti; Ved. also cl. 1. Ā. bhayate, and accord, to, Dhātup. xxxiv, 15, cl. 10. P. bhāyayati; pf. bibhāya, 3. pl. bibhyuḥ, RV. &c. &c.; bībhāya, AitBr.; bibhayāṃ cakara, ŚBr. cf. Pāṇ. iii, 1, 39; aor. abhaiṣīt, ˚ṣma, ˚ṣuḥ, RV.; AV. &c., 2. sg. bhaiṣīs, AV., bhais, Br. &c., esp. in mā bhais, ‘do not be afraid’; once for pl. = mā bhaiṣṭa, R. i, 55, 25; bhes, Br.; bhema, RV., p. Ā. bhiyāna, ib.; fut. bhetā Gr.; cond. abheṣyat, ŚBr.; inf. bhiyase, RV.; bhetum, MBh. &c.), to fear, be afraid of (abl. or gen., rarely instr. or acc.), RV. &c. &c.; to fear for, be anxious about (abl.), R. : Pass. bhīyate, aor., abhāyi Gr.: Caus. bhīṣayate (ŚBr. &c.; cf. Pāṇ. i, 3, 68), bhīṣayati (MBh.; once mc. bhiṣ˚, BhP.; p. bhīṣayāṇa, MBh.; aor. bībhiṣaḥ, TS., ˚ṣathāḥ, RV.), bhāyayati, ˚te (Pāṇ. i, 3, 68, Sch.; Pot. bhāyayes, Megh. 61; v.l. bhīṣayes; aor. bībhayat, abībhayanta, RV.; ind.p. -bhāyya, Br.), bhāpayate (Pāṇ. vi, 1, 56, Sch.), to terrify, put in a fright, intimidate, RV. &c. &c.: Desid. bibhīṣati Gr.: Intens. bebhīyate, bebhayīti, bebheti, ib.
bhī [cf. √ bhyas; Lith. bijótis; Slav. bojati; Germ. biben, beben.]
2. bhī f. fear, apprehension, fright, alarm, dread of (abl. loc. acc. with prati, or comp.), RV.; &c.
bhī 3 P. (bibheti, bibhāya-bibhayāṃcakāra, abhaiṣīt, bheṣyati, bhīta) 1 To fear, dread, be afraid of; mṛtyorbibheṣi kiṃ ba la na sa bhītaṃ vimuṃcati; rāvaṇādvibhyatiṃ bhṛśaṃ Bk. 8. 70; Śi. 3. 45. 2 To be anxious or solicitous about (A.) — Caus. (bhāyayati) To frighten (any one) with anything; kuṃcikayainaṃ bhāyayati Sk.; (bhāpayate, bhīṣayate) to frighten, terrify, intimidate; muṃḍo bhāpayate Sk.; stanitena bhīṣayitvā dhārāhastaiḥ parāmṛśasi Mk. 5. 28.
bhī f. Fear, dread, alarm, fright, terror; abhīḥ ‘fearless’ R. 15. 8; vapuṣmān vītabhīrvāgmī dūto rājñaḥ praśasyate Ms. 7. 64.
1. bha aspirate of ba.
2. bha (in gram.) N. of the weakest base of nouns (as opp. to pada and aṅga, q.v.) i.e. of the base before the vowel terminations except in strong cases, before feminine suffixes, and before Taddhitas beginning with vowels or y, Pāṇ. i, 4, 18 &c.
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