مراء

مَرِىْءٌ ذ [The œsophagus, or gullet of a slaughtered camel, or sheep or goat, (S,) and of a man, (Zj, in his Khalk el-Insán,) the canal through which the food and drink pass; (S, K;) the head of the stomach; (K;) contiguous, (S,) or adherent (K) to the حُلْقُوم [or windpipe ]; (S, K;) through which the food and drink pass, and by which they enter: (TA;) pl. [of pauc.] أَمْرِئَةٌ (K) and [of mult.] مُرُؤٌ. (S, K.) It is also written مَرِىٌّ. (TA.) ― -b2- يَأْتِينا فِى مِثْلِ مَرِىْءِ النَّعَامِ [ It comes to us as it were through the gullet of the ostrich ]: a proverbial expression, from a trad., alluding to paucity of food; the ostrich being particularized because of the slenderness of its neck, whence is inferred the narrowness of its gullet. (TA.) ― -b3- Wholesome, &c. (See مَرُؤَ.) ― -b4- هَنِيْئًا مَرِيْئًا: see art. هنأ and see 1 in the present art. ― -b5- غَيْثٌ مَرِىْءٌ [ A rain productive of good result ]. (TA.) ― -b6- كَلَأٌ مَرِىْءٌ Wholesome herbage. (K.) ― -b7- أَرْضٌ مَرِيْئَةٌ A land salubrious in its air. (K.) ― -b8- مَرِىْءٌ Manly, &c. (See مَرُؤَ.)