Sanskrit

Adjective

प्लव • ‎(plava)

1. swimming, floating ṠāṅkhGṛ. Suṡr.
2. sloping towards, inclined Hariv. Var. Hcat. (in astrol. applied to a constellation situated in the quarter ruled by its planetary regent Var. Sch.)
3. transient MuṇḍUp.

Noun

प्लव • ‎(plava) n, m

1. a float, raft, boat, small ship RV. &c.

Descendants

• Telugu: ప్లవము ‎(plavamu)

Noun

प्लव • ‎(plava) m

1. a kind of aquatic bird (= गात्र-सम्प्लव, कारण्डव, जल-वायस, जल-काक or जल-कुक्कुट L.).
2. Ficus infectoria.
3. a snare or basket of wicker-work for catching fish.
4. the 35th (or 9th) year in a cycle of Jupiter.
5. swimming, bathing (ifc. f( आ).).
6. flooding, a flood, the swelling of a river.
7. the prolated utterance of a vowel (= प्लुति).
8. protraction of a sentence through 3 or more श्लोकs (= कुलक).
9. sloping down or towards, proclivity, inclination.
10. jumping, leaping, plunging, going by leaps or plunges R. (cf. comp. below)