prabhāwa

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रभाव (prabhāva, “importance; greatness; prowess; influence; impact”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pra.ba.wa/
• Rhymes: -wa
• Hyphenation: pra‧bhā‧wa

Noun

prabhāwa

1. might, power, strength
2. an extraordinary, supernatural potency
3. light

Derived terms

• amrabhāwa
• kaprabhāwa
• mahāprabhāwa
• makaprabhāwa
• maprabhāwa

 

• astraprabhāwa
• hīnaguṇaprabhāwa
• jñānaprabhāwa
• mahāprabhāwa
• paramaprabhāwa
• prabhāwamaṇḍala
• prabhāwasantāpa
• waraprabhāwa

 

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦥꦿꦧꦮ (prabawa) (inherited)
  • → Indonesian: perbawa

Further reading

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