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The corpus record — Sanskrit

madhu

madhu mf(ū or u or vī)n. ( gen. n. Ved. madhvas, madhos, or madhunas; instr. madhvā; dat. madhune; loc. madhau) sweet, delicious, pleasant, charming, delightful, RV. ; TS.

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Where it lives

  • Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 56 · 7.41/10k
  • Chandogya Upanisad 8 · 1.71/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. مَدهُ

madhu mf(ū or u or vī)n. ( gen. n. Ved. madhvas, madhos, or madhunas; instr. madhvā; dat. madhune; loc. madhau) sweet, delicious, pleasant, charming, delightful, RV. ; TS.

2. مَدهُ

bitter or pungent, L.

3. mādhu

mādhu Vṛddhi form of madhu in comp.

In the wild

6 of 64 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. madh (vol. 3, scan p. 694; entry #9134).

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.