प्लव [ plava ] [ plavá ] m. f. n. swimming , floating Lit. ŚāṅkhGṛ. Lit. Suśr.

  sloping towards , inclined Lit. Hariv. Lit. Var. Lit. Hcat. ( in astrol. applied to a constellation situated in the quarter ruled by its planetary regent Lit. Var. Sch.)

  transient Lit. MuṇḍUp.

  [ plava ] m. n. (ifc. f ( [ ā ] ) .) a float , raft , boat , small ship Lit. RV.

  m. a kind of aquatic bird (= [ gātra-samplava ] , [ kāraṇḍava ] , [ jala-vāyasa ] , [ jala-kāka ] or [ jala-kukkuṭa ] Lit. L.) Lit. VS.

  a frog Lit. L.

  a monkey Lit. L.

  & sheep Lit. L. an arm Lit. L.

  a Caṇḍāla Lit. L.

  an enemy Lit. L.

  Ficus Infectoria Lit. L.

  a snare or basket of wicker-work for catching fish Lit. L.

  the 35th (or 9th) year in a cycle of Jupiter Lit. VarBṛS.

  m. swimming , bathing (ifc. f ( [ ā ] ) .) Lit. MBh. Lit. R. Lit. Kathās.

  m. flooding , a flood , the swelling of a river Lit. MBh. Lit. MārkP.

  the prolated utterance of a vowel (= [ pluti ] ) Lit. L.

  protraction of a sentence through 3 or more Ślokas (= [ kulaka ] ) Lit. L.

  sloping down or towards , proclivity , inclination Lit. L.

  (in astrol.) = [ plava-tva ] Lit. VarBṛS. Sch.

  a kind of metre Lit. Col.

  N. of a Sāman ( also with [ vasiṣṭhasya ] ) Lit. ĀrshBr.

  jumping , leaping , plunging , going by leaps or plunges Lit. R. ( cf. comp. below)

  returning Lit. L.

  urging on Lit. L.

  n. Cyperus Rotundus or a species of fragrant grass Lit. Suśr. ( cf. Gk. 1 for 2 , 3 )