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plava

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]