As a deity name
Name 34 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
प्रभव · noun · masculine
उत्पत्ति का कारण । उत्पत्तिहेतु · उत्पत्तिस्थान । आकर · जन्म । उत्पत्ति — Śabdasāgara
प्रभव · pra-bhav · s.m.
Production, birth; origin, source, cause of existence; generative cause; the operative cause or immediate origin of being (as the father or mother) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 238
Cited formation "प्रभव" is प्र- + भव: भव means "Being, existing", and the prefix प्र- forms excess, very, forward. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
production, source, origin, cause of existence (as father or mother, also ‘the Creator’), birthplace (often ifc., with ā, springing or rising or derived from, belonging to), &c.
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Dictionary citations
pra-bhava &c. See under pra-√ bhū.
pra-bhava mfn. prominent, excelling, distinguished, RV.
pra-bhava m. production, source, origin, cause of existence (as father or mother, also ‘the Creator’), birthplace (often ifc., with f(ā). , springing or rising or derived from, belonging to), Up.; Mn.; MBh. &c.
pra-bhava m. might, power (= pra-bhāva), L.
N. of a Sādhya, Hariv.
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