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hi! there is a similar term for bhoot sawaar hona that is something like junoon hona. i.e. उसे पढ़ने का जूनून है| and उस पर पढाई का भूत सवार है| are similar things.... --Onef9day Talk! 18:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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the word is bhoota or bhootam. Bhoot is a hindi word restricted to hindi/north indian speak areas. Bhoota would is more of an universal word understood by everyone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.120.240.17 (talk) 23:13, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not true. Bhoot is far more widespread and is used in North India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh alike. It is also basically an Indo-Aryan word (present as a loan word in non-IA languages as well, of course) and this is how modern Indo-Aryan languages render it. A simple Google comparison also illustrates this clearly:
- bhoot - 1.8 million hits
- bhut ghost (for disambiguation) - 458k hits
- bhoota - 91k hits (many are not about ghosts)
- bhuta ghost - 442k
It's no contest as far as I can see. Bhoot is definitely the way to go. Also, in Sanskrit, भूत​ has many meanings [1], unlike the specific singular meaning that it has in modern IA. --Hunnjazal (talk) 07:08, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]