यव

{ yavḥ }

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

   See : जौ, जौ, जौ

A dictionary, Marathi and English

   Barley, Hordeum hexastichon. 2 A natural line across the fingers of the shape of a grain of barley. 3 The measure of a barley corn, considered as equal to six mustard seeds.

Aryabhushan School Dictionary

  m  Barley; the measure of a barley corn.

मराठी (Marathi) WN

   See : जव, जव

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

  पु. 
   एक धान्य ; सातू ; जव .
   हाताच्या बोटावरचें यवाच्या आकाराचें चिन्ह .
   यवाच्या दाण्याची लांबी . हें एक लांबीचें परिमाण . सहा मोहर्‍यांच्या दाण्यांच्या लांबीबरोबर हें असतें . [ सं . ]
०क्षार   खार - पु . ( विरु . ) सातूच्या गवताच्या राखेपासून तयार केलेला क्षार ; ( इं . ) नायट्रेट ऑफ पोट्याश . [ सं . यवक्षार ] यवोदक - न . ( श्राद्धाच्या वेळीं लागणारें ) सातूमिश्रित पाणी .

नेपाली (Nepali) WN

   See : जौ, जौ

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

यव  m.  1. m. the first half of a month (generally in pl.; accord. to Comm. = पूर्व-पक्षाः; also written याव), [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Kāṭh.]
यव  mfn.  2. mfn. (√ 1. यु) warding off, averting, [AV.]; [Yājñ.]
यव  m.  3. 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 अङ्गुल, [VarBṛS.]; or as a weight = 6 or 12 mustard seeds = 1/2 गुञ्जा, [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. योग (when the favourable planets are situated in the 4th and 10th mansions and the unfavourable ones in the 1st and 7th), ib.
जव   speed, velocity, [W.] ( prob. w.r. for ); a double convex lens, ib.
यव   [ cf. Zd. yava; Gk. ζειά; Lith. javaí.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

यवः [yavḥ]   [यु-अच्]
   Barley; यवाः प्रकीर्णा न भवन्ति शालयः [Mk.4.17.]
   A barley-corn or the weight of a barleycorn; [Ms.8.134.]
   A measure of length equal to 1/6 or 1/8 of an aṅgula.
   A mark on the fingers of the hand resembling a barley-corn and supposed according to its position to indicate wealth, progeny, good fortune &c.; समग्रयवमच्छिद्रं पाणिपादं च वर्णवत् [Rām.6.48.13.]
   The first half of a month; also याव.
  N. N. of a particular astronomical Yoga.
   Speed, velocity; cf. जव.
   A double convex lens.
  N. N. of an island. -Comp.
-अङ्कुरः -प्ररोहः   a shoot or blade of barley.
   अग्रजः = यवक्षार.
  N. N. of a plant (यवानि).
-अन्नम्   boiled barley.-अम्लजम् sour barley-gruel.
-आग्रयणम्   the first fruits of barley.
-क्षारः, -आह्वः, -अपत्यम्, -नालजः, -जः   salt-petre, nitre, nitrate of potash; सौवर्चलं यवक्षारं सर्जिकां च हरीतकीम् [Śiva.B.3.17.]
-क्षोदः, -चूर्णम्, -पिष्टम्   barleymeal.
-तिक्ता  N. N. of a plant (शङ्खिनी).
-द्वीपः   the modern Jāvā island.
-नालः   a kind of cereal plant and its grain (Mar. जोंधळा).
   फलः a bamboo.
   spikenard.
   the Kuṭaja tree.
   the Plakṣa tree.
   an onion.
-मध्यः   a kind of drum.
   (ध्यम्, ध्यमम्) a kind of चान्द्रायण or lunar penance; एतमेव विधिं कृत्स्नमाचरेद् यवमध्यमे । शुक्लपक्षादिनियतश्चरंश्चान्द्रायणं व्रतम् ॥ [Ms.11.217.]
   a measure of length.
-लासः   saltpetre, nitre.
-शूकः, -शूकजः   an alkaline salt prepared from the ashes of burnt barley-straw, nitre.
-सुरम्   malt-liquor, beer.

Shabda-Sagara

यव  m.  ( -वः)
   1. Barley, (Hordeum hexastichon.)
   2. The measure of a barley-corn, considered as equal to six mustard seeds.
   3. A mea- sure of length equal to one-eighth of an Angūla.
   4. A natural line across the thumb at the second joint, when it may be com- pared to a grain of barley, and supposed to indicate good fortune. 5. Speed, velocity.
   6. A double convex lens.
    E. यु to join, aff. अच् .

ROOTS:

यु अच् .