भूमि

Sanskrit

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Definitions
  • earth, soil, ground; Earth personified as Bhumi
  • (in the plural) divisions of the world; compare भूमित्रय (tr=bhūmi-traya)
  • territory, country, district
  • place, situation
  • position, posture, attitude
  • part, personification (played by an actor)
  • floor of a house, story
  • area
  • the base of any geometrical figure
  • (figuratively) a step, degree, stage (with Buddhists there are 10 or 13 stages of existence or perfection); Bhumi
  • extent, limit
  • (at the end of a compound) matter, subject, object, receptacle i.e. fit object or person for
  • tongue

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *bʰúHmiṣ inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰúHmiš (earth, Earth) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (grow, become, be, appear, come into being, rise up, exist, thrive, curve, happen, live, bend, swell, dwell, prosper).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*bʰuH-

Gloss

grow, become, be, appear, come into being, rise up, exist, thrive, curve, happen, live, bend, swell, dwell, prosper

Concept
Semantic Field

Spatial relations

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

曲

Emoji
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