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यव yava, vulg. yav, s.m. Barley, Hordeum hexastichon (vulg. jau, q.v.);—a barley-corn (lit., and as a measure of length);—a natural line across the joint of the thumb (compared to a grain of barley, and supposed to indicate good fortune):—yavāṅkur, For this and other compounds not given here, see s.v. jan:—yavaphal, s.m. The bamboo-cane;—Indian spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi;—the medicinal plant Wrightia antidysenterica:—yava-madhya, adj. Having the middle like a barley-corn;—s.m. A kind of penance (the diminishing the food daily during the dark fortnight, fasting on the new moon, and gradually augmenting the food till the full moon):—yava-nāl, s.m. A sort of grass or grain, Andropogon (or Holcus) bicolor (it is very extensively cultivated, and the grain eaten).