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Word (IAST)Word (Devanagari)Overview
plavaप्लवplavaka &c. See col. 2.
plavá mf(A)n. swimming, floating, [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]; [Suśr.]
sloping towards, inclined, [Hariv.]; [Var.]; [Hcat.] (in astrol. applied to a constellation situated in the quarter ruled by its planetary regent, [Var.], Sch.)
transient, [MuṇḍUp.]
plavá m. n. (ifc. f(A). ) a float, raft, boat, small ship, [RV.] &c. &c.
plavá m. a kind of aquatic bird (= gātra-samplava, kāraṇḍava, jala-vāyasa, jala-kāka or jala-kukkuṭa, [L.]), [VS.] &c. &c.
a frog, [L.]
a monkey, [L.]
& sheep, [L.] an arm, [L.]
a Caṇḍāla, [L.]
an enemy, [L.]
Ficus Infectoria, [L.]
a snare or basket of wicker-work for catching fish, [L.]
the 35th (or 9th) year in a cycle of Jupiter, [VarBṛS.]
plavá m. swimming, bathing (ifc. f(A). ), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Kathās.]
plavá m. flooding, a flood, the swelling of a river, [MBh.]; [MārkP.]
the prolated utterance of a vowel (= pluti), [L.]
protraction of a sentence through 3 or more Ślokas (= kulaka), [L.]
sloping down or towards, proclivity, inclination, [L.]
(in astrol.) = plava-tva, [VarBṛS.], Sch.
a kind of metre, [Col.]
N. of a Sāman (also with vasiṣṭhasya), [ĀrṣBr.]
jumping, leaping, plunging, going by leaps or plunges, [R.] (cf. comp. below)
returning, [L.]
urging on [L.]
plavá n. Cyperus Rotundus or a species of fragrant grass, [Suśr.] [cf. Gk. πλόος for πλοϝος, πλοῖον]
plavagāप्लवगाplava—gā (ā), f. the sign of the zodiac Virgo, [Var.]
plavagaप्लवगplava—ga mfn. = plava mfn. (in astrol.), [VarBṛS.], Sch.
plava—ga m. ‘going by leaps or plunges’, a frog, [Hariv.]; [R.]
a monkey, [R.]; [Ragh.]; [Kathās.]
a sort of aquatic bird, the diver, [L.]
Acacia Sirissa, [L.]
N. of the charioteer of the Sun, [L.]
of a son of the Sun, [L.]
plavakaप्लवकm. a leaper (by profession), a rope-dancer &c., [MBh.]
a frog, [L.]
a Caṇḍāla, [L.]
Ficus Infectoria, [L.]
plavanaप्लवनmf(A)n. inclined, stooping down towards (cf. prāg-udak-pl°)
m. a monkey, [L.]
n. swimming, plunging into or bathing in (comp.), [MBh.]; [Gīt.]; [Rājat.]; [Suśr.]
flying, [MBh.]; [R.]
leaping, jumping over (comp.), [R.]
capering (one of a horse's paces), [Sāṃkhyak.], Sch.
a kind of water Cyperus, [L.]
plavaṃgaप्लवंगplava—ṃ-ga mfn. ‘moving by jumps’, flickering (said of fire), [MBh.]
plava—ṃ-ga m. a monkey, [ib.]; [Ṛtus.]
a deer, [L.]
Ficus Infectoria, [L.]
N. of the 41st (15th) year in a sixty years' cycle of Jupiter, [Var.]
plavatvaप्लवत्वplava—tva n. (in astrol.) the position of a constellation in the quarter ruled by its planetary regent, [VarBṛS.]
plavavatप्लववत्plava—vat ind. as with a boat, [MBh.]
plava—vat mfn. possessing a ship or a boat, [ib.]
plavagatiप्लवगतिplava—gati m. ‘moving by jumps’, a frog, [L.]
plavaṃgamāप्लवंगमाplava—ṃ-gamā (ā), f. a kind of metre, [Col.]
plavaṃgamaप्लवंगमplava—ṃ-gama m. (cf. prec.) a frog, [R.]; [Hariv.]
a monkey, [Mn.]; [R.]; [Kathās.]
plavagendraप्लवगेन्द्रplava—°gendra m. ‘monkey chief’, N. of Hanumat, [BhP.]
plavaṃgamenduप्लवंगमेन्दुplava—ṃ-ga°mendu m. ‘monkey-moon’, N. of Hanumat, [MW.]