सभा

Borrowed from Sanskrit सभा (sabhā).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /sə.bʱɑː/, [sɐ.bʱäː]

सभा • (sabhā) f (Urdu spelling سبھا)

1. assembly, council
2. meeting

   सभा समाप्त होने पर हम दोनों गाड़ी लौटे

   sabhā samāpt hone par ham donõ gāṛī lauṭe

   Once the meeting had ended, we both returned to the car

3. association

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “सभा”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “सभा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Borrowed from Sanskrit सभा (sabhā).

IPA^(key): /sə.bʱa/

सभा • (sabhā) f

1. meeting, assembly

   Synonym: बैठक (baiṭhak)

2. conference

Declension of सभा (fem ā-stem)
direct singular	सभा sabhā
direct plural	सभा sabhā
	singular एकवचन		plural अनेकवचन
nominative प्रथमा	सभा sabhā		सभा sabhā
oblique सामान्यरूप	सभे sabhe		सभां- sabhān-
acc. / dative द्वितीया / चतुर्थी	सभेला sabhelā		सभांना sabhānnā
ergative	सभेने, सभेनं sabhene, sabhena		सभांनी sabhānnī
instrumental	सभेशी sabheśī		सभांशी sabhānśī
locative सप्तमी	सभेत sabhet		सभांत sabhāt
vocative संबोधन	सभे sabhe		सभांनो sabhānno
Oblique Note: The oblique case precedes all postpositions. There is no space between the stem and the postposition. Locative Note: -त (-ta) is a postposition.

Genitive declension of सभा (fem ā-stem)
	masculine object पुल्लिंगी कर्म		feminine object स्त्रीलिंगी कर्म		neuter object नपुसकलिंगी कर्म		oblique सामान्यरूप
	singular एकवचन	plural अनेकवचन	singular एकवचन	plural अनेकवचन	singular* एकवचन	plural अनेकवचन
singular subject एकवचनी कर्ता	सभेचा sabheċā	सभेचे sabheċe	सभेची sabhecī	सभेच्या sabhecā	सभेचे, सभेचं sabheċe, sabheċa	सभेची sabhecī	सभेच्या sabhecā
plural subject अनेकवचनी कर्ता	सभांचा sabhānċā	सभांचे sabhānċe	सभांची sabhāñcī	सभांच्या sabhāncā	सभांचे, सभांचं sabhānċe, sabhānċa	सभांची sabhāñcī	सभांच्या sabhāñcā
* Note: Word-final ए (e) in neuter words is alternatively written with the anusvara and pronounced as अ (a). Oblique Note: For most postpostions, the oblique genitive can be optionally inserted between the stem and the postposition.

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “सभा”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies

सभा f

1. Devanagari script form of sabhā

Often analyzed as स- (sa-, “with”) +‎ भाष् (bhāṣ, “to speak”), taking the primary meaning as "colloquium", with the final consonant dropping out. However, the original meaning was probably "building", whence the current meaning of "assembly, hall", which would make this interpretation difficult to accept. Alternative connections to Proto-Germanic *sibjō (“relationship”), whence German Sippe (“clan”), and to Iranian are unconvincing.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɐ.bʱɑ́ː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ɐ.bʱɑː/

सभा • (sabhā́) stem, f

1. an assembly, congregation, meeting, council, public audience
2. social party, society, good society
3. a place for public meetings, large assembly-room or hall, palace, court of a king or of justice, council-chamber, gambling-house
4. a house for lodging and accommodating travellers

Feminine ā-stem declension of सभा (sabhā́)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	सभा sabhā́	सभे sabhé	सभाः sabhā́ḥ
Vocative	सभे sábhe	सभे sábhe	सभाः sábhāḥ
Accusative	सभाम् sabhā́m	सभे sabhé	सभाः sabhā́ḥ
Instrumental	सभया / सभा¹ sabháyā / sabhā́¹	सभाभ्याम् sabhā́bhyām	सभाभिः sabhā́bhiḥ
Dative	सभायै sabhā́yai	सभाभ्याम् sabhā́bhyām	सभाभ्यः sabhā́bhyaḥ
Ablative	सभायाः / सभायै² sabhā́yāḥ / sabhā́yai²	सभाभ्याम् sabhā́bhyām	सभाभ्यः sabhā́bhyaḥ
Genitive	सभायाः / सभायै² sabhā́yāḥ / sabhā́yai²	सभयोः sabháyoḥ	सभानाम् sabhā́nām
Locative	सभायाम् sabhā́yām	सभयोः sabháyoḥ	सभासु sabhā́su
Notes	¹Vedic ²Brāhmaṇas

• Assamese: সভা (xobha)
• Bengali: সভা (śobha)
• Hindi: सभा (sabhā)
• Pali: sabhā
  • → Khmer: សភា (saʼphiə)
  • → Lao: ສະພາ (sa phā)
  • → Northern Thai: ᩈᨽᩣ
  • → Shan: သၽႃး (sǎ pháa)
  • → Thai: สภา (sà-paa)
• → Malayalam: സഭ (sabha) (semi-learned)
• Marathi: सभा (sabhā)
• → Old Javanese: sabhā
  • Javanese: ꦱꦧ (saba), ꦱꦺꦧ (séba)
  • → Balinese: ᬲᬪᬵ (saba)
• → Telugu: సభ (sabha)

• Monier Williams (1899) “सभा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1151, column 2.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 701
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎^[2] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 433-434