مرث

1 مَرَثَ ذ , (aor. مَرُثَ , inf. n. مَرْثٌ, S,) He steeped dates in water, and mashed them (S, K) with the hand; (S;) syn. مَرَسَ: (S, K;) sometimes مَرَذَ is also used in this sense. (S.) ― -b2- مَرَثَ, (aor. مَرُثَ , inf. n. مَرْثٌ, TA,) He made a thing soft, (K,) so that it became of such a subsistence that it might be supped, and then supped it. (TA.) ― -b3- مَرَثَ, (aor. مَرُثَ , and مَرِثَ , inf. n. مَرْثٌ, TA,) He steeped, soaked, or macerated, a thing in water: (K:) he soaked bread in water; as also مَرَذَ. (Sh, As.) مَرَثَ He steeped medicine &c. in water until it became altered. (A.) ― -b4- مَرَثَ, [aor. مَرُثَ ,] He (a child, S,) mumbled, or bit softly, his finger: (S, K:) he (a child) bit with his gums: he (a child) bit and sucked a necklace, or string of beads, such as is called سَخَابٌ. (TA.) ― -b5- مَرَثَ, aor. مَرُثَ , and مَرِثَ , (inf. n. مَرْثٌ, TA,) He [a child] sucked the kind of shells called cowries. (K.) ― -b6- He sucked. (IAar.) ― -b7- He (a child) sucked his mother's breast. (IAar.) ― -b8- مَرِثَ, aor. مَرَثَ , (inf. n. مَرَثٌ, (IAar,) He was mild and forbearing, or clement; and patient in bearing altercation. (K, TA.) -A2- مَرَثَ, [aor. مَرُثَ ,] He beat, or struck, or smote, a man: (K:) or, accord. to A'Obeyd, مرَثَ بِهِ الأَرْضَ, and ↓ مرّث, he threw him, or flung him, upon the ground: or, accord. to Fr, the verb is مَرَنَ. (TA.) -A3- مَرَثَ السَّخْلَةَ, aor. مَرُثَ , (L,) and ↓ مرّثها, He imparted to the lamb, or kid, a foul smell, of sweat, or grease, or the like, so that its mother would not take to it: (K:) he rendered it foul and greasy with his hand, so that its mother would not suckle it: (Ibn-Jo'eyl El-Kelbee:) he befouled it by stroking it with hands defiled by the smell of flesh-meat or fish, so that its mother would not take to it. (El-Mufaddal Ed-Dabbee.) ― -b2- Also, مَرَثَ He defiled water, by putting into it his hands foul with flesh-meat, or grease, or the like. (TA, from a trad.)