arḍe | अर्डे | arDe
arḍe | अर्डे | (e), loc. ind. in the middle, Śāk. (arḍa | अर्ड | in comp. with a subst. means ‘the half part of anything’ [cf. Pāṇ. ii, 2, 2], with an adj. or past Pass. p. [cf. Pāṇ. v, 4, 5] ‘half’; also with an adj. indicating measure [cf. Pāṇ. vii, 3, 26 and 27]; a peculiar kind of compound is formed with ordinals [cf. Pāṇ. i, 1, 23 Comm.] e.g. arḍa-tftīya | अर्ड-त्फ़्तीय |, containing a half for its third, i.e. two and a half; arḍa-caturṭa | अर्ड-चतुर्ट |, having a half for its fourth, three and a half.)