मधु

Sanskrit

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Definitions
  • anything sweet (especially if liquid), mead etc.
  • honey (said to possess intoxicating qualities and to be of 8 kinds)
  • milk or anything produced from milk (as butter, ghee etc.)
  • the juice or nectar of flowers, any sweet intoxicating drink, wine or spirituous liquor
  • sugar
  • water
  • pyrites
  • a kind of metre

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *mádʰu (honey) inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰu inherited from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (honey, mead, sweet drink, wine, honey wine).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*médʰu

Gloss

honey, mead, sweet drink, wine, honey wine

Concept
Semantic Field

Food and drink

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

蜜

Emoji
🍯

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