mádhu mf(U or u or vI)n. (gen. n. Ved. mádhvas, mádhos, or mádhunas; instr. mádhvā; dat. mádhune; loc. mádhau) sweet, delicious, pleasant, charming, delightful, [RV.]; [TS.]
bitter or pungent, [L.]
mádhu m. N. of the first month of the year (= Caitra, March-April), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.
the season of spring, [Var.]; [Kālid.]
Bassia Latifolia, [L.]
Jonesia Asoka, [L.]
liquorice, [L.]
N. of Śiva, [MBh.]
of two Asuras (the one killed by Viṣṇu, the other by Śatru-ghna), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]
of one of the 7 sages under Manu Cākṣuṣa, [MārkP.]
of a son of the third Manu, [Hariv.]
of various princes (of a son of Vṛṣa, of Deva-kṣatra, of Bindu-mat, of Arjuna Kārtavīrya), [Hariv.]; [Pur.]
of a son of Bhaṭṭa-nārāyaṇa, [Kṣitīś.]; of a teacher (= madhva or ananda-tīrtha), [Col.]
of a mountain, [MārkP.]
(pl.) the race of Madhu (= the Yādavas or Māthuras), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [BhP.]
mádhu (u) f. a partic. plant (= jīvā or jīvantī), [L.]
mádhu n. anything sweet (esp. if liquid), mead &c., [RV.]; [AV.]; [TBr.]
Soma (also somyam madhu), [RV.]
honey (said to possess intoxicating qualities and to be of 8 kinds; madhuno leha m. licker of honey a bee, [W.]), [RV.] &c. &c.
milk or anything produced from milk (as butter, ghee &c.), [RV.]; [VS.]; [GṛŚrS.]
the juice or nectar of flowers, any sweet intoxicating drink, wine or spirituous liquor, [Kāv.]; [Var.]; [Sāh.]
sugar, [L.]
water, [L.]
pyrites, [Bhpr.]
N. of a Brāhmaṇa, [ŚBr.]; a kind of metre, [Col.]
[cf. Gk., μέθυ, μέθη, Slav. medǔ; Lith. midùs, medùs; Germ. Meth; Eng. mead.]