Surname · Marathi
प्रभू
प्रभू (prabhū) is a surname from Sanskrit, ultimately from Old Marathi. It is used in Marathi.
MarathiWritten in Devanagari script. In English: prabhū.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
प्रभू comes from Sanskrit, and ultimately from Old Marathi.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Sanskrit प्रभु, from Old Marathi 𑘢𑘿𑘨𑘥𑘳; its root is Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
प्रभू’s family of names
In Marathi usage, प्रभू as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as prabhū. In Marathi usage, प्रभू as a surname has a related form in प्रभु.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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