1. مَدغُ
madgu m. ( accord. to Uṇ. i, 7 fr. √ majj) a diver-bird (a kind of aquatic bird or cormorant; cf. Lat. mergus ), VS. &c. &c. (also guka, R. )
The corpus record — Sanskrit
madguḥ
madgu m. ( accord. to Uṇ. i, 7 fr. √ majj) a diver-bird (a kind of aquatic bird or cormorant; cf. Lat. mergus ), VS. &c. &c. (also guka, R. )
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Where it lives
- Chandogya Upanisad 1 · 0.21/10k
What it meant — Monier-Williams
2. مَدغُ
a species of wild animal frequenting the boughs of trees (= parṇamṛga), Suśr.
3. مَدغُ
a partic. mixed caste, Mn. x, 48 (the son of a Niṣṭya and a Varuṭī , a Māhiṣya who knows medicine, or a Pāra-dhenuka who proclaims orders, L. )
In the wild
Where it came from
- Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. madgu (vol. 3, scan p. 420; entry #4572).
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