(ā), f., see next.
f. the plantain (Musa Sapientum), [Kāv.]; [Kathās.] &c.
a sort of rice, [L.]
a cotton string round the loins, [L.]
a courtezan, [Kāv.] (v.l. for veśyā)
a kind of metre, [Col.]
N. of Gaurī or of Dākṣāyaṇī in the Malaya mountains, [Cat.] of a celebrated Apsaras (wife of Nala-kūbara and carried off by Rāvaṇa; sometimes regarded as a form of Lakṣmī and as the most beautiful woman of Indra's paradise), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
f. a sounding, roaring, lowing &c., [L.]