मद्यपान

Learned borrowing from Classical Sanskrit मद्यपान (madyapāna). By surface analysis, मद्य (madya, “alcohol”) +‎ पान (pān, “drinking”).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /məd̪.jə.pɑːn/,

मद्यपान • (madyapān) m

1. (formal) drinking of alcohol

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “मद्यपान”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884) “madya-pān”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मद्य-पान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Compound of मद्य (mádya, “liquor”) +‎ पान (pā́na, “drinking”).

• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /mɐd̪.jɐ.pɑː.n̪ɐ/

मद्यपान • (madyapāna) stem, n

1. (Classical Sanskrit) drinking of alcohol
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
   • c. 300 BCE, Pañcatantra
   • c. 600 BCE – 600 CE, Suśruta, Suśruta Saṃhitā

• Prakrit: मज्जपाण (majjapāṇa)
• → Hindi: मद्यपान (madyapān) (learned)
• → Kannada: ಮದ್ಯಪಾನ (madyapāna) (learned)
• → Marathi: मद्यपान (madyapān) (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899) “मद्यपान”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 779.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “मद्यपान”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “मद्यपान”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press