The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Maddavat! (f.) [abstr. fr. maddava] gentleness, softness, suavity Dhs 44, 1340; DhsA 151.
Madd!laka
Madd!laka [etym.?] a kind of bird J vi.538.
Maddita
Maddita [pp. of maddeti, see maddati] 1. kneaded, mixed, in su˚ Vism 124. -- 2. crushed, defeated, in su˚
Miln 284. -- Cp. pa˚, pari˚.
Maddin
Maddin (adj.) [fr. m%d, cp. Sk. mardin=mardana] crushing, destroying Sdhp 218. Cp. pamaddin.
Maddhita
Maddhita [of m%dh] see pari˚.
Madhu
Madhu [cp. Vedic madhu, Gr. me/qu wine, Lith. medùs honey, midùs wine, Ohg. metu=Ger. met wine.
Most likely to root *med to be full of juice: see under madati] honey J i.157 sq.; iv.117; Dh 69 (madh( v!
read as madhuv!); Mhvs 5, 53; DhsA 330; DhA ii.197 (alla˚ fresh honey). -- pl. madh(ni Mhvs 5, 31. --
The Abhp (533) also gives "wine from the blossom of Bassia latifolia" as meaning. -- On madhu in similes
see J.P.T.S. 1907, 121. -- atthika (madh˚) at J iii.493 is with v. l. to be read madhu -- tthika (q. v. below).
The proposal of Kern's (Toev. s. v.) to read madh' a&&hika "with sweet kernels" cannot be accepted. The C.
explns rightly by "madhura -- phalesu pakkhitta -- madhu viya, madhura -- phalo hutv!." -- atthika
(madhu˚) desirous of honey, seeking honey J iv.205; Mhvs 5, 50. -- !pa*a (madhv˚) honey shop Mhvs 5,
52. -- !sava (madhv˚) honey extract, wine from the flower of Bassia latifolia VvA 73 (as one of the 5 kinds
of intoxicating liquors). -- kara "honey -- maker," bee J iv.265; Vism 136 (in simile); DhA i.374. -- ga*.a
honey -- comb Mhvs 22, 42; 34, 52. -- tthika [madhu+thika, which latter stands for th"ya, fr. sty! to
congeal, drip; see thika, th"na, th"ya and theva] dripping with honey, full of honey J iii.493 (so read for
madh -- atthika); vi.529 (= madhu' paggharanto C.). Kern, Toev. s. v. unnecessarily reads as ˚atthika which
he takes=˚a&&hika. -- da giving honey, liberal Mhvs 5, 60 (Asoka). -- pa&ala honey -- comb J i.262; DhA
i.59; iii.323. -- pi*.ik! a ball of honey (to eat), honey -- food, a meal with honey Vin i.4; M i.114. -- p"ta
having drunk honey, drunk with honey S i.212. -- (b)bata "courting honey," a bee D!vs iii.65. -- bindu a
drop of honey Vism 531; VbhA 146 (˚giddha, in comparison). -- makkhit! smeared with honey J i.158. --
madhuka dripping with honey, full of honey J vi.529. -- mehika referring to a particular disease
madhumeha ("honey -- urine," diabetes?) Vin iv.8. -- la&&hik! liquorice (no ref.?); cp. La&&hi --
madhukavana J i.68. -- l!ja sweet corn J iv.214, 281. -- v!*ija honey seller Mhvs 5, 49. -- ssava flowing
with honey Pv ii.911.
Madhuka
Madhuka (adj. n.) [fr. madhu] connected with honey. 1. (n.) the tree Bassia latifolia (lit. honey tree) Vin
i.246; J v.324, 405; vi.529; Miln 165. -- 2. the fruit of that tree J iv.434. -- 3. (adj.) ( -- ˚) full of honey J
vi.529 (madhu˚ containing honey). -- 4. connected with an intoxicating drink, given to the drink of ( -- ˚) J
iv.117 (sur! -- meraya˚). -- a&&hika the kernel (of the fruit) of Bassia latifolia Vism 353=KhA 43 (which
latter reads madhukaphal' a&&hi; in the description of the finger nails). -- puppha the flower of Bassia
latifolia from which honey is extracted for liquor Vin i.246 (˚rasa liquorice juice); J i.430.
Madhuk!