As a Hindi name
माध्यम · masculine
medium, means
माध्यम
middle, central, mid
Śabdasāgara also records: [वि॰ स्त्री॰ माध्यमी] मध्य का । जो मध्य में हो । बीचवाला
Platts (p. 979) also records: Middlemost, middle, central, mid
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi माध्यम — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit माध्यम (mādhyama, “middle, central”), vṛddhi derivative of मध्यम (madhyama). The noun is a semantic loan from and phono-semantic matching of English medium.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
mādhyama mfn. (fr. madhyama) relating to the middle, middlemost, central (also applied to the composers of the middle portion of the Ṛg-veda i.e. of books ii-vii), ŚāṅkhBr.; GṛS.; Pat.
middle-born, W.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
relating to the middle, middlemost, central (also applied to the composers of the middle portion of the Ṛg-veda i.e. of books ii-vii)
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mādhyama mfn. (fr. madhyama) relating to the middle, middlemost, central (also applied to the composers of the middle portion of the Ṛg-veda i.e. of books ii-vii), ŚāṅkhBr.; GṛS.; Pat.
middle-born, W.
mādhyama m. pl. N. of a race, Pravar.
mādhyama a. (mī f.) [madhyama-aṇ] Be longing to the middle portion, central, middle, middlemost.
mādhyama mfn. (-maḥ-mī-maṃ) Middle born. E. madhyama the same, aṇ pleonasm.
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