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yava

yáva m. the first half of a month (generally in pl.; accord. to Comm. = pūrva-pakṣāḥ; also written yāva), [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Kāṭh.]

yáva mfn. (√ 1. yu) warding off, averting, [AV.]; [Yājñ.]

yáva m. barley (in the earliest times, prob. any grain or corn yielding flour or meal; pl. barley-corns), [RV.] &c. &c.

a barley-corn (either as a measure of length = 1/6 or 1/8 of an Aṅgula, [VarBṛS.]; or as a weight = 6 or 12 mustard seeds = 1/2 Guñjā, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.])

any grain of seed or seed corn, [Bhpr.]

(in palmistry) a figure or mark on the hand resembling a barley-corn (supposed to indicate good fortune), [VarBṛS.]

N. of a partic. astron. Yoga (when the favourable planets are situated in the 4th and 10th mansions and the unfavourable ones in the 1st and 7th), [ib.]

speed, velocity, [W.] (prob. w.r. for java); a double convex lens, [ib.]

[cf. Zd. yava; Gk. ζειά; Lith. javaí.]