Old Javanese edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Sanskrit भीम (bhīma, terrific)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bi.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ma
  • Hyphenation: bi‧ma

Adjective edit

bhīma

  1. terrific, terrible, formidable

Descendants edit

  • Javanese: ꦧꦶꦩ (bima), ꦨꦶꦩ (Bima)
  • Balinese: ᬪᬷᬫ (Bima)

Further reading edit

  • "bhīma" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Sanskrit भीम (bhīma).[1]

Adjective edit

bhīma[2]

  1. dreadful, horrible, cruel, awful

References edit

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bhīma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
  2. ^ Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “bhīma”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead