As a deity name
Name 274 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 31 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
संभव
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Platts (p. 673) also records: Birth, being, production, existence; origin, cause, motive
Cited formation "सम्भव" is सम्- + भव: भव means "Being, existing", and the prefix सम्- forms with, together with, altogether, good. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(17) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi सम्भव — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *som- Proto-Indo-Iranian *sam- Sanskrit सम्- (sam-) Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Sanskrit भू (bhū) Sanskrit भ॒व (bhavá) Sanskrit सम्भव (sambhava)lbor. Hindi संभव Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सम्भव (sambhava), from सम्- (sam-) + भ॒व (bhavá).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
sam-bhava &c. See p. 1179, col. 1.
sam-bhava m. (or sam-bhava) (ifc. f(ā). ) being or coming together, meeting, union, intercourse (esp. sexual int˚, cohabitation), Gobh.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
(ifc. ā) being or coming together, meeting, union, intercourse (esp. sexual int˚, cohabitation)
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Dictionary citations
sam-bhava &c. See p. 1179, col. 1.
sam-bhava m. (or sam-bhava) (ifc. f(ā). ) being or coming together, meeting, union, intercourse (esp. sexual int˚, cohabitation), Gobh.
finding room in, being contained in (ifc. = ‘contained in’), MBh.; Suśr.
birth, production, origin, source, the being produced from (abl.; ifc. = ‘arisen or produced from, made of, grown in’), Mn.; MBh. &c.
cause, reason, occasion (ifc. = ‘caused or occasioned by’), ib.
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