جو

जौ jau (and, in a few comp., and in Braj) जव jav [S. यवः], s.m. Barley; a grain of barley; a barley-corn (measure); a jot, tittle; the mark between the finger-joints:—javāṅkur (S. yava+an˚), s.m. A shoot or blade of barley; the young shoots of barley presented by Brahmans to their disciples at the feast of Naurātr:—jauphal, s.m. The medicinal plant Wrightia antidysenterica:—jau-jau ḥisāb lenā, To take an account of every tittle, to take a strict account:—jau-ćanī, s.f. A mixture of barley and chick-pea or 'gram':—java-khār (S. yava+kshāra, s.m. An alkali prepared from the ashes of burnt barley straw, a medicine; impure saltpetre; nitrate of potash:—jau-kuṭ, jau-kob, adj. 'Reduced to particles like barley-corns,' half-pounded, bruised, coarsely ground:—jaumadhya, s.m. lit. 'Having the middle like a barley-corn'; a kind of penance, diminishing the food daily during the dark fortnight; fasting on the new moon and gradually augmenting the food to the full moon.