As a Hindi name
पीवा · pīwā · s.f.
Water; drink — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 302
पीना
to drink; to consume, to smoke; to suppress emotion; to drain time or resources
Śabdasāgara also records: जल । पानी
Cited formation "पीवा" is पीव + -आ: पीव means "स्थुल । मोटा", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "पीवा" is पीवना + -आ: पीवना means "स॰ [हिं॰ पीना] दे॰ 'पीना'", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "पीवा" is पीव + -आ: पीव means "स्थुल । मोटा", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Hindi verb set पीना (pīnā) पिलाना (pilānā) पिलवाना (pilvānā) Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti Proto-Indo-Iranian *píbati Sanskrit पिब॑ति (píbati) Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀯𑀇 (pivaï) Hindi पीना Inherited from Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀯𑀇 …” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
water
Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "pīvā" is the nominative of "pīvan" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "pīvā" is the feminine form of "pīva" — the same word with the feminine ending, derived from the stem's own paradigm.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
pīvā (ā), f. water, L.
pīvā Water.
pīvā f. (-vā) Water. E. pā to drink, vana Uṇādi aff. form irr.
pīvan mf(arī)n. swelling, full, fat, strong, robust, RV. &c. &c.
pīvan m. wind, L.
1. pīva mfn. fat, RV.; AitBr.
2. pīva Nom. P. ˚vati, to be fat or corpulent, Dhātup. xv, 55.
Alternative readings
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