As a Hindi name
हाव · noun · masculine
पास बुलाने की क्रिया या भाव । पुकार । बुलाहट · संयोग या श्रृंगार के समय में नायिका की प्रेमभाव- जनित स्वाभाविक चेष्टाएँ जो पुरुष को आकर्षित करती हैं — Śabdasāgara
हाव · hāv · s.m.
Calling; call, cry — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1217
हाव
call, cry: any flirtatious gesture (of a heroine)
Cited formation "हाव" is ह + -आव: ह means "the thirty-third consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -आव forms abstract nouns (masc.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(8) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "हाव" is हना + -आव: हना means "of next, q.v", and the suffix -आव forms abstract nouns (masc.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(8) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
calling, alluring, dalliance, blandishment (collective N. of ten coquettish gestures of women, beginning with līlā, q.v.), &c.
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Dictionary citations
hāva m. calling, alluring, dalliance, blandishment (collective N. of ten coquettish gestures of women, beginning with līlā, q.v.), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
hāva &c. See p. 1294, cols. 1 and 2.
hāva m. (-vaḥ) 1 Any feminine act of amorous pastime, or tending to excite amorous sensations, coquetry, blandishment, dalliance. 2 Calling. E. hveñ to call, (to incite passion,) ghañ aff.
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