As a Hindi name
Nearest attested word 'यावन्' does not appear as a word in our Hindi sources. The nearest word is यावन, meaning See the pop. form jāmnī. — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago nearest word: यावन — a suggestion, not a meaning
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a rider horseman, invader, aggressor, foe
Verified derivationMultiple readings (7)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "yāvan" is the vocative of "yāvat" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M3 · meaning shifts "yāvat" is derived from "yā" with the matup suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
yā (ā), f. going; a car
restraining, religious meditation
yāvat mf(atī)n. (fr. 3. ya; correlative of tāvat, q.v.) as great, as large, as much, as many, as often, as frequent, as far, as long, as old &c. (or how great &c. = quantus, quot or qualis), RV. &c. &c. (yāvantaḥ kiyantaḥ, ‘as many as’, TBr.; yāvad vā yāvad vā, ‘as much as possible’, ŚBr.; yāvat tāvat, ‘so much as’, in alg. applied to the first unknown quantity [= x] or so much of the unknown as its co-efficient number; in this sense also expressed by the first syllable yā cf. IW. 182; iti yāvat in Comms. ‘just so much’, ‘only so’, ‘that is to say’, ‘such is the explanation’)
yāvat ind. as greatly as, as far as, as much or as many as
Related forms
Dictionary citations
1. yāvan m. (for 2. see p. 852, col. 3) a rider horseman, invader, aggressor, foe, R.
(ifc.) going, driving, riding (cf. akṣṇa-, agra-, eka-y˚ &c.)
yāvan in comp. for yāvat.
2. yāvan (for 1. See p. 850, col. 1), in a-yāvan, q.v.
3. yāvan in ṛṇa-yāvan, q.v.
yāvat mf(atī)n. (fr. 3. ya; correlative of tāvat, q.v.) as great, as large, as much, as many, as often, as frequent, as far, as long, as old &c. (or how great &c. = quantus, quot or qualis), RV. &c. &c. (yāvantaḥ kiyantaḥ, ‘as many as’, TBr.; yāvad vā yāvad vā, ‘as much as possible’, ŚBr.; yāvat tāvat, ‘so much as’, in alg. applied to the first unknown quantity [= x] or so much of the unknown as its co-efficient number; in this sense also expressed by the first syllable yā cf. IW. 182; iti yāvat in Comms. ‘just so much’, ‘only so’, ‘that is to say’, ‘such is the explanation’)
yāvat ind. as greatly as, as far as, as much or as many as
yā (ā), f. going; a car
restraining, religious meditation
Alternative readings
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