मीळ्ह

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *miždʰám, from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰóm. Cognate with Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda), Persian مزد (mozd), Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós, “wage”), Old Church Slavonic мьзда (mĭzda, “reward”), Old English mēd (whence English meed).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /miː.ɭ̆ʱɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.ɭ̆ʱɐ/

मीळ्ह • (mīḷhá) stem, n (Vedic)

1. contest, strife
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.100.11:

     स जा॒मिभि॒र्यत्स॒मजा॑ति मी॒ळ्हेऽजा॑मिभिर्वा पुरुहू॒त एवैः॑ ।
     अ॒पां तो॒कस्य॒ तन॑यस्य जे॒षे म॒रुत्वा॑न्नो भव॒त्विन्द्र॑ ऊ॒ती ॥

     sá jāmíbhiryátsamájāti mīḷhéʼjāmibhirvā puruhūtá évaiḥ.
     apā́ṃ tokásya tánayasya jeṣé marútvānno bhavatvíndra ūtī́.

     When in his ways with kinsmen or with strangers he speedeth to the fight, invoked of many,
     For gain of waters, and of sons and grandsons, may Indra, girt by Maruts, be our succour.

   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 6.46.4:

     बाधसे जनान्वृषभेव मन्युना घृषौ मीळ्ह ऋचीषम ।
     अस्माकं बोध्यविता महाधने तनूष्वप्सु सूर्ये ॥

     bādhase janānvṛṣabheva manyunā ghṛṣau mīḷha ṛcīṣama.
     asmākaṃ bodhyavitā mahādhane tanūṣvapsu sūrye.

     Ṛcīṣama, thou forcest men as with a bull, with anger, in the furious fray.
     Be thou our Helper in the mighty battle fought for sunlight, water, and for life.

2. reward, remuneration
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda

• मीढ (mīḍhá)

• Monier Williams (1899) “मीळ्ह”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 818.