plavaka &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]