Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
f. (Nom. sing. dyauḥ) Heaven, paradise, the sky; dyaurbhūmirāpo hṛdayaṃ yamaṃśca Pt. 1. 182; Ś. 2. 14. (In Dvandva compounds dyo is changed to dyāvā, e. g. dyāvāpṛthivyau, dyāvābhūmī, dyāva kṣame ‘heaven and earth’). Comp. bhūmiḥ a bird. sad m. (dyoṣad) a god.