मध्यम a. [मध्ये मवः म]
1 Being or standing in the middle, middle, central; पितुः पदं मध्यममुत्पतंती V. 1. 19; मध्यमे पल Ki. 9. 2; so मध्यमलो- कपालः, मध्यमपदं मध्यमरेखा q. q. v. v.
2 Intermediate, intervening.
3 Middling, of a middling condition or quality, mediocre; as in उत्तमाधम- मध्यम.
4 Middling, moderate; तेन मध्यमशक्तिनिमित्राणि स्थापितान्यतः R. 17. 58.
5 Middle-sized.
6 Neither youngest nor oldest, the middleborn (as a brother); प्रणमति पितरौ वां मध्यमः पांडवोऽयं Ve. 5. 26.
7 Impartial, neutral.
8 Mean (in astr.).
9 Belonging to the meridian.
−मः
1 The fifth note in music.
2 A particular musical mode.
3 The mid-land country; see मध्यदेश.
4 The second person (in grammar).
5 A neutral sovereign; धर्मोत्तरं मध्यममाश्रयंते R. 13. 7.
6 The governor of a province.
−मा
1 The middle finger.
2 A marriageable girl, one arrived at the age of puberty.
3 The pericarp of a lotus.
4 One of the classes of heroines (Nāyikās) in poetic compositions, a woman in the middle of her youth; cf. S. D. 100.
5. A central blossom.
−मं
1 The middle.
2 The waist.
−Comp.
−अंगुलिः the middle finger.
−आहरणं (in alg.) elimination of the middle term in an equation.
−कक्षा the middle court yard.
−खंडं the middle term of an equation.
−जात a. middle-born.
−पदं the middle member (of a compound). ºलोपिन् m. a subdivision of the Tatpuruṣa compound in which the middle word is omitted in composition; the usual instance given is शाकपार्थिवः which is dissolved as शाकप्रियः पार्थिवः; here the middle word प्रिय is omitted; so छायातरुः, गुडधानाः &c.
−पांडवः an epithet of Arjuna.
−पुरुषः the second person (in grammar).
−भृतकः a husbandman or cultivator (who works both for himself and his master or landlord).
−गत्रः midnight.
−रेखा the central meridian of the earth.
−लोकः the middle world, the earth. ºपालः a king; R. 2. 16.
−वयस् n. middle-aged.
−वयस्क a. middle-aged.
−संग्रहः intrigue of a middling character, such as sending presents of flowers &c. to another's wife; it is thus defined by Vyāsa:-प्रेषणं गंधमाल्यानां धूपभूषणवाससां । प्रलो- भतं चान्नपानैर्मध्यमः संग्रहः स्मृतः ॥.
−साहसः the second of the three penalties or modes of punishment; see Ms. 8. 138. (−सः −सं) an outrage or offence of the middle class.
−स्थ a. being in the middle.