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‖ bhut|buːt|
Also bhoot, bhuta.
[Hindi bhūt, f. Skr. bhūtá lit. ‘become, been, existing’.]
In India, a spirit; a demon or goblin.
1785C. Wilkins tr. Bhăgvăt-Gēētà ix, The servants of the Bhōōts, or spirits, go unto the Bhōōts; and they who worship me go unto me. 1838H. H. Wilson in Jrnl. R. Asiatic Soc. V. 290 These superterrene realms, the Lokas or spheres, inhabited by various orders of beings, as the Bhútas. 1883D. C. J. Ibbetson Rep. Rev. Settlt. Karnal ix. 154 People who have died violent deaths..are specially likely to become bhúts. 1909Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 8/3 These ‘bhutas’ are the devils or goblins of our mediæval fairy tales. 1939R. Godden Black Narcissus xvi. 147 ‘Probably He's a dragon, a bhût in the shape of a child...’ They were all afraid of bhûts, Hindus and Buddhists alike. |