بھوت

भूत bhūta, vulg. bhūt, part. & s.m. Been, become, produced, formed, being, existing, existent; actually being, really happened, true; right, proper; past, gone, former;—a created being, child, son, youth; a great devotee or ascetic; a kind of demigod; a kind of malignant spirit (believed by the Hindūs to haunt graveyards, lurk in trees, animate carcases, and delude or devour human beings), evil spirit, demon, ghost, goblin, imp; a vicious or wicked person, a devil; an ugly or hideouslooking person; an epithet of Śiva; (in Gram.) the preterite tense; (in Philos.) an element (of which, according to the Hindūs, there are five, viz. earth, water, fire, air, ether); (in Law) the real state of the case, the matter of fact:—bhūt-ātmā, s.m. lit. 'Composed of the five elements'; an epithet of the body; the elementary or vital principle, the proximate cause of life and action; an epithet of Brahmāand of Śiva:—bhūt-āri, s.m. lit. 'Enemy of evil beings'; asafœtida:—bhūt-ālā, s.m. 'The refuge of created beings,' an epithet of the Supreme Being:—bhūt-āvishṭ, adj. & s.m. Possessed by an evil spirit;—one who is possessed, a maniac:—bhūt-āveś, s.m. Possession by an evil spirit:—bhūt utārnā, v.n. To remove the influence of an evil spirit (from), to exorcise:—bhūt bannā, v.n. To become a devil, be like a devil; to be intoxicated: bhūt-pret, s.m. Ghosts and goblins:—bhūt-jaṭā, s.f. Indian spikenard, Valeriana jatamansi:—bhūt jalānā(-kā) = bhūtutārnā, q.v.:—bhut-rāj, s.m. The plant Ophioglossum flexuosum:—bhūt-sr̤ishṭi, s.f. Creation or origination of existing things:—bhūt-sanćār, s.m. Possession by an evil spirit:—bhūt-kāpakwān, s.m. lit. 'Devil's dish'; (met.) ill-gotten wealth, etc. (soon spent or lost):—bhūt-kāl, s.m. (in Gram.), Past time, past tense:—bhūt-kālik, adj. Appertaining to past time, or to past tense:—bhūt-grast, adj. & s.m. Possessed by an evil spirit;—a maniac:—bhūtgaṇ, s.m. The aggregate orwhole collection of beings; the troop or whole class of demons or spirits:—bhūt-gandhā, s.f. A particular perfume:—bhūta-ghna, s.m. lit. 'Destroying or removing evil spirits'; garlic: a camel:—bhūtaghnā, s.f. Holy basil:—bhūt-nāth, s.m. 'Lord of beings or spirits'; an epithet of Śiva:—bhūtnāśan, s.m. lit. 'Destroying evil beings'; the marking-nut plant, Semicarpus anacardium; the berry or seed of the Eleocarpus (used for rosaries):—bhūt-vārttā, s.f. Conversation about the past:—bhūt-vās, s.m. lit. 'Abode of evil beings'; the tree Belleric myrobalan, Terminalia bellerica (the nuts of which are used as dice):—bhūt-vr̤iksh, s.m. lit. 'Demon-tree'; the tree Trophis aspera; the tree Bignonia indica:—bhūt-vikriyā, s.f. Possession by an evil spirit; epilepsy:—bhūt-vīr, s.m. Name of an ancient race of people:—bhūt-veśī, s.f. A white flowering Vitex negundo:—bhūteśvar (bhūta+īśvara), s.m. Lord of beings; lord of evil beings, an epithet of Śiva; name of a town and temple situated between Agra and Etawah, on the banks of the Jamnā, being one of the sacred places of the Hindūs:—bhūt ho-ke lipaṭnā, v.n. To cling (to one) like a devil or a ghost:—bhūt honā, v.n. To become a devil, to become mad or furious with rage, be distracted with rage.