Word history
Wiktionary records प्रभु (prabhu) as a Hindi surname. The entry identifies a learned borrowing from Sanskrit prabhu. The word is a title of authority, with the dictionary sense lord or master. The written form retains the consonant sequence prabh and its final vowel. The explanation concerns the title word and does not name a particular office held by a person.
Sources: Wiktionary contributors · Hindi entry, etymology and surname sense · Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword prabhu, page 684, column 3, entry L135574
Literal dictionary sense
Native-script forms
प्रभु · Devanagari
The same word as a given name
Sources and attribution
- Wiktionary contributors · Hindi entry, etymology and surname sense
- Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword prabhu, page 684, column 3, entry L135574
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