معانی اصلی بُت

بُت در سنسکریت به معانی شبیه هر چیز باشنده و روح است:

भूत adj. bhUta being or being like anything, spirit.

معنی ایدول لاتین و دِوَ سنسکریت نیز در این رابطه است:

देव m. deva idol

idol (n.)

mid-13c., “image of a deity as an object of (pagan) worship,” from Old French idole “idol, graven image, pagan god” (11c.), from Latin idolum “image (mental or physical), form,” especially “apparition, ghost,” but used in Church Latin for “false god, image of a pagan deity as an object of worship.” This is from Greek eidōlon “mental image, apparition, phantom,” also “material image, statue,” in Ecclesiastical Greek,” a pagan idol,” from eidos “form, shape; likeness, resemblance”