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yavana

mfn. (√ yu) keeping away, averting (see dveṣo-yávana).

n. (√ yu) mixing, mingling (esp. with water), [Nyāyam.]

mfn. quick, swift

m. a swift horse, [L.] (prob. w.r. for javana).

w.r. for paijavana, [Mn. vii, 41.]

m. an Ionian, Greek (or a king of the Greeks g. kambojādi; in later times also a Muhammadan or European, any foreigner or barbarian), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

N. of a caste, [Gaut.] (accord. to [L.] ‘the legitimate son of a Kṣatriya and a Vaiśyā’ or ‘an Ugra who is an elephant catcher’) of a country (= yavana-deśa, sometimes applied to Ionia, Greece, Bactria, and more recently to Arabia), [W.]

wheat, [L.]

a carrot, [L.]

olibanum, [L.]

pl. the Ionians, Greeks (esp. the Greek astrologers), [MBh.]; [VarBṛS.] &c.

N. of a dynasty, [Pur.]

n. salt from saline soil, [L.]