Middha (nt.) [orig. pp. perhaps to Vedic mid (?) to be fat=medh, as DhsA 378 gives "medhatī ti middhaŋ." -- More likely however connected with Sk. methi (pillar=Lat. meta), cp. Prk. medhi. The meaning is more to the point too, viz. "stiff." Thus semantically identical with thīna. -- BSk. also middha, e. g. Divy 555] torpor, stupidity, sluggishness D i.71 (thīna˚); Sn 437; A v.18; Dhs 1157; Miln 299, 412 (appa˚ not slothful, i. e. diligent, alert); Vism 450 (˚rūpa; +rogarūpa, jātirūpa, etc., in def. of rūpa); DA i.211 (expld as cetasika gelañña: see on this passage Dhs trsl. §1155); Sdhp 459. -- See thīna.