The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Medhi (f.) [Vedic meth" pillar, post (to bind cattle to); BSk. medhi Divy 244; Prk. me.hi Pischel Gr. § 221.
See for etym. Walde, Lat. Wtb. s. v. meta] pillar, part of a st(pa [not in the Canon?].
Medhin
Medhin (adj. -- n.)=medha in adj. use; only in cpd. dum- medhin (=dum -- medha) foolish, ignorant Dh 26
(b!l! dummedhino jan!;=nippaññ! DhA i.257).
Meraya
Meraya (nt.) [Epic Sk. maireya, cp. Hal!yudha 2, 175 (Aufrecht p. 314); prob. dial.] a sort of intoxicating
liquor, spirits, rum, usually combd with sur!. D i.146 166; M i.238; Pug 55; Dh 247; J iv.117
(pupph!sav -- !di, i. e. made fr. flowers, cp. defn dh!tak" -- pu+pagu.a -- dh!ny -- !mla -- sansk%ta' by
M!dhava, Hal!y. p. 314). Five kinds are given by Dhp!la at VvA 73, viz. pupph -- !sava, phal' !sava,
madhv˚, gu)˚, sambh!rasa'yutta.
Merita
Merita in bhayamerita J iv.424=v.359 is to be read as bhaya -- m -- erita driven by fear; there is no need to
change it with Kern, Toev. to perita.
Mella
Mella [dial. or uncertain reading?] citron (=m!tulunga) J iii.319 (gloss bella ).
Mokkha
Mokkha1 [late Vedic & Epic Sk. mok+a, fr. muc, see muñcati. Dhtp 539 mokkha= mocana; Dhtm 751=
moca] 1. (lit.) release, freedom from, in bandhan! m. D i.73= M i.276. -- 2. (fig.) release, deliverance,
salvation Vbh 426 (jar! -- mara*a˚ from old age & death); DhA i.4 (˚magga+sagga -- magga, the way to
heaven & salvation), 89, 90 (˚dhamma=salvation) Mhvs 5, 61. -- 3. (lit.) (act.) letting loose, emission,
uttering (of speech) J i.375. -- 4. it may (& prob. ought to) be taken as adj. (=*mok+ya, grd. of Caus. of
muc) at Sn 773 (añña˚, either=1, as "deliverance for others," or=4, as "to be delivered by others." Bdhgh at
SnA 516 gives both explns: aññe mocetu' (na) sakkonti, k!ra*a -- vacana' v! eta': aññena mocetabb! (na)
honti).
Mokkha
Mokkha2 (adj.) [fr. mukha 6; V%ddhi form=*maukhya] the headmost, first, foremost, in series aggo se&&ho
m. uttamo A ii.95, where the customary tradition reads p!mokkha (see under mah! & cp. Nd2 502A).
Mokkhaka
Mokkhaka=mokkha2; thus we should read at J i.441 for mukkhaka.
Mokkhacika
Mokkhacika (m. or ˚! f.) [see on attempt at etym. Morris in J.P.T.S. 1885, 49 who takes mokkha as fr. muc
"tumbling" & cika="turning" fr. cak=cik. The word remains obscure, it must be a dialectical expression,
distorted by popular analogy & taken perhaps
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