mádhya mf(A)n. middle (used like medius, e.g. mádhye samudré, ‘in the midst of the sea’), [RV.]; [VPrāt.]; [KaṭhUp.]
middlemost, intermediate, central, [Var.]; [Megh.]
standing between two, impartial, neutral, [Kām.]
middle i.e. being of a middle kind or size or quality, middling, moderate (with vṛtti f. ‘a middle course’), [Lāṭy.]; [Mn.]; [Suśr.] &c.
(in astron.) mean i.e. theoretical (opp. to spaṣṭa, or sphuṭa), [Sūryas.] (-tva n.)
lowest, worst, [L.]
mádhya m. n. (ifc. f(A). ) the middle of the body, (esp.) a woman's waist, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.
mádhya m. (in alg.) the middle term or the mean of progression, [Col.]
mádhya n. (m. g. ardharcādi) the middle, midst, centre, inside, interior, [RV.] &c. &c. (am ind. into the midst of, into, among, with gen. or ifc. [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; °dhyena ind. in or through the midst of, on the inside, through, between, with gen. acc. or ifc. [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; °dhyāt ind. from the midst of, out of, from among, [R.]; [Hariv.] &c.; °dhye ind. See s.v.)
mádhya n. the middle of the sky (with or scil. nabhasas), [Mn.]; [MBh.]
space between (e.g. bhruvos, the eye brows), [MBh.]
midday (with ahnaḥ), [Mālav.]
the meridian, [Mālatīm.]
intermediate condition between (gen.), [R.]
the belly, abdomen, [Kum.]
the flank of a horse, [L.]
(in music) mean time, [Saṃgīt.]
ten thousand billions, [MBh.]
cessation, pause, interval, [L.]
N. of a country between Sindh and Hindūstan proper, [Cat.]
[cf. Zd. maidhya; Gk. μέσσος, μέσος for μέθιος; Lat. medius; Goth. midjiś; Eng. mid in midland, midnight &c.]