As a deity name
Name 853 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
As a Hindi name
रेवा · noun · feminine
नर्मदा नदी · काम की पत्नी रति · नील का पौधा — Śabdasāgara
रेवा · rewā · s.f.
Name of the Narmadā river (which rises in one of the Vindhya mountains called Amarkanṭak, in the province of Gondwānā) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 613
Cited formation "रेवा" is रेव + -आ: रेव means "(dialec.) Sand, fine gravel", 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: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "रेवा" is रेवना + -आ: रेवना means "स॰ [हिं॰ रेना] दे॰ 'रेना'", 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 "रेवा" is रेव + -आ: रेव means "(dialec.) Sand, fine gravel", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the indigo plant
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "revā" is the feminine form of "reva" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
revā f. See below
revā f. the indigo plant, L.
N. of Rati (the wife of Kāma-deva), L.
(in music) a partic. Rāga, Saṃgīt.
N. of the Narma-dā or Nerbudda river (which rises in one of the Vindhya mountains called Āmra-kūṭa or more commonly Amara-kaṇṭaka in Gondwana, and after a westerly course of about 800 miles falls into the sea below Broach), Kāv.; Var. &c.
reva m. N. of a son of Ānarta and father of Raivata, Hariv.
reva n. N. of various Sāmans, ĀrṣBr.
Alternative readings
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