इव
इव - Hindi
Adverb
इव • (iva) (Urdu spelling او)
Preposition
इव • (iva) (Urdu spelling او)
इव - Pali
Alternative forms
Particle
इव
- Devanagari script form of iva (“like, as”)
इव - Sanskrit
Alternative forms
- ᬇᬯ (Balinese script)
- ইৱ (Assamese script)
- ইব (Bengali script)
- 𑰂𑰪 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀇𑀯 (Brahmi script)
- 𑌇𑌵 (Grantha script)
- ઇવ (Gujarati script)
- ਇਵ (Gurmukhi script)
- ꦆꦮ (Javanese script)
- ឥវ (Khmer script)
- ಇವ (Kannada script)
- ອິວ (Lao script)
- ഇവ (Malayalam script)
- 𑘂𑘪 (Modi script)
- ᢈᠸᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
- ᡳᠸᠠ (Manchu script)
- ဣဝ (Burmese script)
- 𑦢𑧊 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐂𑐰 (Newa script)
- ଇଵ (Oriya script)
- ꢄꢮ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆅𑆮 (Sharada script)
- 𑖂𑖪 (Siddham script)
- ඉව (Sinhalese script)
- ఇవ (Telugu script)
- อิว (Thai script)
- ཨི་ཝ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒃𑒫 (Tirhuta script)
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA: /i.ʋɐ/
- (Classical) IPA: /ˈi.ʋɐ/
Adverb
इव • (iva)
- like, in the same manner as (in this sense = यथा (yathā), and used correlatively to तथा (tathā))
- as it were, as if
- पथेव ― patheva ― as if on a path
- in a certain manner, in some measure, a little, perhaps (in qualification or mitigation of a strong assertion)
- nearly, almost, about
- मुहूर्तम् इव ― muhūrtam iva ― almost an hour
- so, just so, just, exactly, indeed, very (especially after words which involve some restriction:)
- ईषद् इव ― īṣad iva ― just a little
- किंचिद् इव ― kiṃcid iva ― just a little bit
- न चिराद् इव ― na cirād iva ― very soon
- (as a particle) connected vaguely, and somewhat pleonastically, with an interrogative pronoun or adverb
- किम् इव ― kim iva ― what?
- कथम् इव ― katham iva ― how could that possibly be?
- क्वेव ― kveva ― where, I should like to know?
Usage notes
In the pada texts of the Rigveda, Yajurveda, and Atharvaveda, and by native grammarians, इव (iva) is considered to be enclitic, and therefore compounded with the word after which it stands.