मदन

Sanskrit

Etymology

From the मद् (mad, “to enjoy; to be drunk; to intoxicate”, root) +‎ -अन (-ana), the root being inherited either from Proto-Indo-European *mad- (“to be wet > be drunk”) or from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to become full, sated”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɐ́.dɐ.nɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ.d̪ɐ.n̪ɐ/

Adjective

मदन • (mádana) stem

1. intoxicating; maddening
2. delighting; exhilarating

Declension

Noun

मदन • (mádana) stem, m

1. passion; love (of sexual nature)
   • c. 400 CE – 500 CE, Śūdraka, Mṛcchakaṭikam Act 1:

     मम मदनम् अनङ्गं मन्मथं वर्धयन्ती
     निशि च शयनके मम निद्रां प्रक्षिषन्ती ।

     mama madanam anaṅgaṃ manmathaṃ vardhayantī
     niśi ca śayanake mama nidrāṃ prakṣiṣantī .

     (You who are) increasing my passion, my lust, my desire,
     And at night exhausting my sleep in the bedchamber.

Declension

References

Further reading

• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “मदन”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Monier Williams (1899) “Mádana”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 778/2.
• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “मदन”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016