1. math or (q.v.) cl. 1. 9. P. ([Dhātup. xx, 18]; [iii, 5] and [xxxi, 40]) máthati, mánthati, mathnā́ti (Ved. and ep. also Ā. máthate, mánthate and mathnīte; Impv. mathnadhvam, [MBh.]; pf. mamātha, [AV.]; 3. pl. mamathuḥ, [Vop.]; methuḥ, methire, [Br.]; mamantha, °nthuḥ, [MBh.]; aor. mathīt, [RV.]; amanthiṣṭām, [ib.]; amathiṣata, [Br.]; fut. mathiṣyati, °te; manthiṣyati, [Br.] &c.; mathitā, [MBh.]; inf. mathitum, [MBh.] &c.; °tos, [Br.]; mánthitavaí, [MaitrS.]; ind.p. mathitvā́, -máthya, [Br.] &c.; manthitvā, [Pāṇ. i, 2, 33]; -manthya and -mātham, [MBh.] &c.), to stir or whirl round, [RV.] &c. &c.; (with agnim), to produce fire by rapidly whirling round or rotating a dry stick (araṇi) in another dry stick prepared to receive it, [ib.]; (with araṇim), to rotate the stick for producing fire, [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; (with ūrum, hastam &c.), to use friction upon any part of the body with the object of producing offspring from it, [Hariv.]; [BhP.]; to churn (milk into butter), produce by churning, [TS.] &c. &c. (also with two acc., e.g. sudhāṃ kṣīra-nidhim mathnāti, ‘he churns nectar out of the ocean of milk’, [Siddh.] on [Pāṇ. i, 4, 51]); to mix, mingle, [Suśr.]; to stir up, shake, agitate, trouble disturb, afflict, distress, hurt, destroy, [AV.] &c. &c.: Pass. mathyáte (ep. also °ti), to be stirred up or churned &c., [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. manthayati ([Lāṭy.]), māthayati or mathayati ([MBh.]), to cause to be stirred up or churned &c.: Desid. mimathiṣati, mimanthiṣati Gr.: Intens. māmathyate, māmantti &c., [ib.] [cf. Gk. μίνθη; Lat. mentha, menta; Lit. mentùrė; Germ. minza, Minze; Angl.Sax. minte; Eng. mint.]
a drink in which other ingredients are mixed by stirring, mixed beverage (usually parched barley-meal stirred round in milk; but also applied to a partic. medicinal preparation), [RV.] &c. &c.
a spoon for stirring, [ĀśvGṛ.]; [Kauś.]
a churning-stick, [MBh.]; [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 18]
a kind of antelope, [ṢaḍvBr.]
the sun or a sun-ray, [L.]
a partic. disease of the eye, excretion of rheum, [L.]
n. an instrument for kindling fire, by friction, [MBh.]
f. N. of a humpbacked female slave of Bharata's mother Kaikeyī (accord. to [MBh.] an incarnation of the Gandharvī Dundubhī; accord. to [R.] a daughter of Virocana)
mf(A)n. (allied to √ 2. mand and manda, but in some meanings rather fr. √ math) slow (lit. and fig.; often ifc. ‘slow in’), lazy, tardy, indolent, dull, stupid, silly, [Kāv.]; [Rājat.]; [Sāh.] &c. (am ind.)
low, hollow, deep (as sound), [W.]
bent, curved, crooked, humpbacked (cf. ā f. and mantharaka)
broad, wide, large, bulky, [L.]
tale-bearing, [L.]
m. a treasure or hair or anger (= kośa, keśa, or kopa), [L.]