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Definition of Dhava
1. Noun. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
Group relationships: Combretaceae, Combretum Family, Family Combretaceae
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dhava
Literary usage of Dhava
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chips from a German Workshop by Friedrich Max Müller, Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1890)
"Now, husband, or man, in Sanskrit is " dhava,'' a word which does not seem to
exist in the other Aryan languages, for dea, which Pic te t brings forward as ..."
2. Selected Essays on Language, Mythology and Religion by Friedrich Max Müller (1881)
"This compound has been preserved in languages which have lost the simple word
dhava, thus showing the great antiquity of this traditional term. ..."
3. The Institutes of Paráśara by Parāśara (1887)
"M6.dhava, and also as mentioned in ... dhava, and generally upon the explanations
given by that great commentator; though slight departures in the meaning ..."
4. The Life and Stories of the Jaina Savior, Pārçvanātha by Aristophanes, Bhāvadevasūri, Richard Thomas Elliott, William Joseph Myles Starkie (1919)
"In double entente, ‘having many dhava trees. ... .ii-dhava, ‘husband of the
earth,' ‘king,' 2. 856. ..."
5. An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the by Abraham Fornander, John F. G. Stokes (1878)
"Sprachen mit den Ind.-Europ.," refers this Tau or, contracted, Tu to the Sanskrit
dhava, man, a word which, in its compound form of Vi- dawa—without man, ..."
6. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"The earliest authentic information regarding the city is derived from the iron
pillar of l!aja dhava, set up in the M or 4th century BC (Г> ..."
7. Essays on Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, and Palæographic, of the by James Prinsep, Henry Thoby Prinsep (1858)
"It merely tells us that a prince, whom nobody ever heard of before, of the name
of dhava, erected it in commemoration of his victorious prowess. ..."
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