midDa · neuter · middha 1
torpor
middha , nt. (= Pali id. ; orig. unhistorically abstracted from styāna-middha , q.v. ), drowsiness, sleepiness ; sometimes simply sleep , with neutral or at least unobjectionable connotation, as in middham avakrāntaḥ, went to sleep , MSV i.281.1 ; Divy 102.5, 21 ; 579.20 ; ma (= mā, m.c. ) ca bhavatha middhavihatāḥ pataṃga iva rakṣathā netraiḥ LV 202.2 ( vs ), and donʼt be overcome with drowsiness … ; Mvy 1982 middham = Tib. gñid , sleep (follows styānam 1981 ); middhāvastha-locanāparisphuṭo Divy 555.22 ; perhaps in this sense LV 179.6 ; but also as something definitely reprehensible, Dharmas 69 (in list of upakleśa ; styāna occurs earlier, but separately, in same list); saṃgaṇikāsaṃsarga-middha-nivaraṇa- Laṅk 49.7 ; middha- guruka (see this) AsP 245.9, 13 ; middha-sadābhibhūta RP 28.4 ( vs ); others, Śikṣ 128.1 ; 197.6 ; Bbh 223.13 ; SP 13.1 .
torpor; drowsiness
Middha (neuter) [original past participle perhaps to Vedic mid (?) to be fat = medh, as As 378 gives "medhatī ti middhaṃ." — More likely however connected with Sanskrit methi (pillar = Latin meta), cf. Prākrit medhi. The meaning is more to the point too, viz. "stiff." Thus semantically identical with thīna. — BHS also middha, e.g. Divy 555] torpor, stupidity, sluggishness D I 71 (thīna°); Snp 437; A V 18; Dhs 1157; Miln 299, 412 (appa° not slothful, i.e. diligent, alert); Vism 450 (°rūpa; + roga-rūpa, jāti-rūpa, etc., in definition of rūpa); Sv I 211 (explained as cetasika gelañña: see on this passage BMPE 1155); Saddh 459. — See thīna.
【中】 惛沈，睡意。~dhī,【形】 處於睡眠狀態的，昏昏欲睡的。
(nt, nt, abstr) drowsiness; sluggishness; lethargy torpor, drowsiness [lit.] stiffness
(adj, adj, in comps) with drowsiness; having sluggishness; with lethargy torpor, drowsiness [lit.] stiffness