भूर्

Sanskrit

Etymology

From भूस् (bhūs), nominative singular of भू (bhū, “earth”)

Noun

भूर् • (bhūr) f

  1. earth, as the first of the व्याहृति (vyāhṛti, “names of the upper worlds used as mystical utterance”) (VS., etc.)
  2. hell (L.)

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0763
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