मदmada

मद (mada) is a Sanskrit word meaning the name of two Samans, ardent passion for, sexual desire or enjoyment, wantonness, lust, or rut, pride, arrogance, presumption, or conceit, honey, semen virile. Its 34 recorded definitions are grouped into 13 contexts, among them Excitement, Joy, or (Mental) Intoxication, Personified Mada or Named Entity, Honey, Musk, or Semen Virile.

Root
मद् (mad)
Etymology
E. मद to be pleased, &c., aff. अप् or अच्
Definitions
34
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Meanings by context

Excitement, Joy, or (Mental) Intoxication

9 definitions
hilarity, rapture, excitement, inspiration, and intoxication

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Hilarity, exhilaration, rapture, or intoxication. 2. Passion. 3. Wantonness or lust. 4. Rut. 5. Pride, arrogance, or conceit. 6. An intoxicating drink. 7. Honey. 8. Elephant temple-juice.

Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Joy, pleasure, or delight. 2. Elephant rutting juice. 3. Spirituous or vinous liquor. 4. Intoxication. 5. Pride or arrogance. 6. Insanity or madness. 7. Semen. 8. Musk. 9. Passion or desire.

Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Joy. 2. The temporal juice of an elephant. 3. Wine or intoxication. 4. Pride. 5. Madness. 6. Semen. 7. Musk. 8. Desire. 9. A drinking vessel or furrowing instrument.

Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Joy, pleasure, and delight. 2. Elephant rutting juice. 3. Spirituous liquor. 4. Intoxication. 5. Pride and arrogance. 6. Insanity. 7. Semen. 8. Musk. 9. A male river. 10. Ardent passion and desire. 11. Love. 12. Honey. 13. A beautiful object.

Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Intoxication, insanity, or the rut of an elephant. 2. Pride, joy, or sensual enjoyment. 3. Passion, love, or spirituous liquor. 4. The fluid flowing from an elephant's temples when in rut. 5. Semen or musk. 6. A drinking vessel or an instrument for making furrows.

Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Excitement, enthusiasm, or intoxication. 2. Ardent passion, lust, or rut. 3. The rut-juice of an elephant. 4. Arrogance, conceit, or pride. 5. Intoxicating drink or liquor.

Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Excitement, inspiration, or intoxication. 2. Intoxicating drinks, especially Soma draughts.

Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

1. Intoxication, drunkenness, or inebriety. 2. Madness, insanity, or frenzy. 3. Ardent passion, lust, rut, wantonness, or sensual enjoyment. 4. Love, desire, ardour, or inspiration. 5. Delight, rapture, or joy. 6. Pride, arrogance, presumption, conceit, or petulance. 7. Any exhilarating or intoxicating drink, spirituous liquor, wine, Soma, or honey. 8. The juice or ichor that exudes from an elephant's temples when in rut. 9. Semen. 10. Musk. 11. Any beautiful object. 12. A river.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Personified Mada or Named Entity

9 definitions
Intoxication or insanity personified

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a son of Brahma

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Name of a Danava

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a servant of Shiva

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

An Asura representing intoxication.

Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

followed Sati going to Daksha's sacrifice

The Purana Index

a son of Kali and Sura

The Purana Index

born out of the ego of Brahma

The Purana Index

an Abhutaraya god

The Purana Index

Honey, Musk, or Semen Virile

3 definitions
honey

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

semen virile

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

musk

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Elephant's Temple Juice

2 definitions
the fluid or juice that exudes from a rutting elephant's temples

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. The fluid exuding from an elephant's temples. 2. Ardent passion. 3. Intoxication or drunkenness. 4. Madness. 5. Love. 6. Delight. 7. Arrogance or conceit. 8. Honey. 9. Musk. 10. Spirituous liquor. 11. Semen. 12. Any beautiful object.

Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Name of Sāmans

2 definitions
the name of two Samans

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Name of two Samans

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Passion, Sexual Desire, Lust, or Rut

2 definitions
ardent passion for

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

sexual desire or enjoyment, wantonness, lust, or rut

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

A River

1 definition
a river

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Any Beautiful Object

1 definition
any beautiful object

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Astrological Mansion

1 definition
the seventh astrological mansion

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Intoxicating Drink or Substance

1 definition
An exhilarating or intoxicating drink, spirituous liquor, wine, or Soma.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

madī (f.): Agricultural Implement/Vessel

1 definition
an agricultural implement

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Pride, Arrogance, or Conceit

1 definition
pride, arrogance, presumption, or conceit

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Verbal Root 'mad' (Etymology)

1 definition
1. To rejoice or be content. 2. To be proud. 3. To praise. 4. To sleep or be sluggish. 5. To be foolish. 6. To be elegant. 7. To go. 8. To satisfy. 9. To delight or exhilarate. 10. To intoxicate. 11. To be poor. 12. To be proud.

Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

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Definitions on this page come from 12 works: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.