As a Hindi name
रेव · rew · s.f.
(dialec.) Sand, fine gravel; grit; grain (of sand, sugar, &c.); a shoal, a ford (cf. rewṛī) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 613
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
revṛ (revate) 1 To go by leaps or jumps, to leap, to jump. 2 To go, to move. 3 To flow as a river.
Verified derivationMultiple readings (10)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "reva" is the vocative of "revā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
reva m. N. of a son of Ānarta and father of Raivata, Hariv.
reva n. N. of various Sāmans, ĀrṣBr.
reva (ṛ) revṛ (revate) 1 To go by leaps or jumps, to leap, to jump. 2 To go, to move. 3 To flow as a river.
revā f. See below
revā f. the indigo plant, L.
Alternative readings
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