Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

3 مازحهُ ذ , inf. n. مِزَاحٌ (S, K) and مُمَازَحَةٌ, (K,) He jested, or joked, with him. (S, K.)

6 تَمَازَحَا ذ They two jested, or joked, one with the other. (S, K.)

مَزْحَةٌ ذ A jest, or joke; a single act of jesting, or joking. (Msb.)

مُزَاحٌ ذ and مُزَاحَةٌ, substs., A jesting, or joking. (S, K.) [See 1.]

رَجُلٌ مَزَّاحٌ ذ A man who is a great jester, or joker. (A.)

1 مَزَدَ ذ , &c.: see art. مصد.

مِزْرٌ ذ A certain kind of beverage, (S, Mgh,) or نبيذ, (A, K,) made of ذُرَة [ a kind of millet ]: (A, Mgh, K:) [it is now called in Egypt and Nubia بُوزهَ and بُوظه: see De Sacy's “ Abdallatif, ” pp. 324 and 572; and my “ Modern Egyptians, ” vol. i. ch. iii.:] and of barley: (Mgh, K:) or of wheat: (Mgh:) and of [ other ] grains: (TA:) A'Obeyd mentions that the Ibn- 'Omar explains the various kinds of نَبِيذ thus: بِتْعٌ is نبيذ of honey: and جِعَةٌ is نبيذ of barley: and مِزْرٌ, of ذُرَة: and سَكَرٌ, of dried dates: and خَمْرٌ, of grapes: and سُكُرْكَةٌ is the wine of the Abyssinians; Aboo-Moosà El-Ash'aree says that it is of ذُرَة, and it is also called سُقُرْقَعٌ, app. arabicized from سُكُرْكَة, which is Abyssinian: (S:) مِزْرٌ and سُكُرْكَهٌ are the same. ― -b2- See Supplement.

See Supplement

1 مَسَّهُ ذ , (A, Mgh,) first pers. مَسِسْتُهُ, (S, M, Msb, K,) for which they sometimes say مِسْتُهُ, rejecting the first س, (Sb, * S, M, * K,) and transferring the kesreh thereof to the م (Sb, * S, M, *) contr. to general rule, (Sb, M,) and some do not transfer the kesreh, but leave the م with its fethah, [saying مَسْتُهُ,] like ظِلْتُمْ and ظَلْتُمْ for ظَلِلْتُمْ, an irregular contraction, (S,) aor. يَمَسُّهُ, (S, Msb, K,) [and يَمْسَسْهُ when mejzoom, accord. to rule,] inf. n. مَسٌّ (S, M, A, Msb, K) and مَسِيسٌ, (S, * M, A, K,) or the latter is a simple subst., (Msb,) and مِسِّيسَى; (S, * K;) and [مَسَّهُ,] first pers. مَسَسْتُهُ; aor. يَمُسُّهُ, (AO, S, M, Msb, K,) inf. n. مَسٌّ; (Msb;) the former of which two verbs is the more chaste; (S, TA;) He touched it, or felt it, [generally the former,] syn. لَمَسَهُ, (M, A, K,) with his hand: (TA: as from the K [but wanting in a MS copy of the K and in the CK:]) or he put his hand to it without the intervention of anything: (Msb:) or مَسٌّ is like لَمْسٌ; excepting that the latter is [sometimes] used to signify the seeking for [or feeling for] a thing, even though it be not found; whereas the former is [only] said of that [ action ] with which is perception by the sense of لمس: (Er-Rághib, TA:) [see also لَمَسَهُ:] and [in like manner you say,] مَاسَّ الشَّىْءُ الشَّىْءَ, inf. n. مُمَاسَّةٌ and مِسَاسٌ, (M, A, *) meaning, the thing met [or touched ] the thing with its substance. (M.) ― -b2- [Hence,] مَسَّهَا, (M, A, Msb,) first pers. مَسِسْتُهَا, aor. يَمَسُّهَا, (Msb,) inf. n. مَسٌّ and مَسِيسٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) (tropical:) Inivit eam; scil. mulierem; (M, A, Msb;) as also ↓ مَاسَّهَا, (M, A, Msb,) inf. n. مُمَاسَّةٌ (S, Msb) and مِسَاسٌ: (Msb:) the former is used in this sense in several places in the Kur, and is said by some to be preferable to the latter: (TA:) and تَمَاسٌّ is also used metonymically for [the coming together, in the sense of ] مُبَاضَعَةٌ, as well as مُمَاسَّةٌ. (S.) ― -b3- مَسَّ المَاآءُ الجَسَدَ, inf. n. مَسٌّ, (tropical:) The water wetted the body. (Msb.) ― -b4- مَسَّ also signifies (tropical:) He , or it, struck, or smote; because striking, or smiting, like touching, is with the hand. (TA.) You say, مَسَّهُ بِالسَّوْطِ (tropical:) He struck him with the whip ]. (A.) ― -b5- And it is said of anything annoying or hurtful that befals a man. Thus in the Kur, [ii. 74, and iii. 23,] لَنْ تَمَسَّنَا النَّارُ (tropical:) [ The fire of hell will not smite us; or here it may be rendered touch us ]. And [ii. 210,] مَسَّتْهُمُ البَأْسَاآءُ [ Distress, or misfortune, smote, or afflicted, or befell, them ]. And in other instances; all which are similar to the saying in the same, ذُوقُوا مَسَّ سَقَرَ. (TA.) [See مَسٌّ below.] You say also, مَسَّهُ المَرَضُ (tropical:) [ Sickness smote him, or befell him ]: and مَسَّهُ العَذَابُ (tropical:) [ Punishment befell him ]: and مَسَّهُ الكِبَرُ (tropical:) [ Old age came upon him ]. (A.) And مَسَّتْهُ الجِنُّ (tropical:) [lit. The jinn, or genii touched him; meaning, affected him with madness, or insanity ]: (TA:) [whence,] مُسَّ, [in the TA, مُسَّ بِهِ, app. meaning, from what immediately precedes, مُسَّ بِالجُنُونِ, inf. n. مَسٌّ,] He was, or became, [ touched with madness, or insanity: or] mad, or insane: (K:) as though the jinn had touched him. (TA.) And مَسَّهُ بِعَذَابٍ (tropical:) He punished him. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b6- [Hence, app.,] مَسَّتْ اـِلَيْهِ الحَاجَةُ, (S, K,) inf. n. [مَسٌّ and] مَسِيسٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) [which seems to signify either The want of him, or it, was difficult of accomplishment, or distressing; or the want was difficult of accomplishment, or distressing, to him ]. (S, K,. [In both these lexicons, the meaning is left to be inferred only from the fact that this phrase immediately follows the explanation of حَاجَةٌ مَاسَّةٌ, q. v. ]) ― -b7- [مَسَّ is also said of what is good, as well as of what is evil; as in the following instance:] مَسَّتْهُ مَوَاسُّ الخَيْرِ وَالشَّرِّ (tropical:) [ The haps of good fortune, and of evil, ] happened to him, or betided him. (TA.) ― -b8- [As touching implies proximity,] مَسَّتْ بِكَ رَحِمُ فُلَانٍ signifies (tropical:) The relationship of such a one is near to you. (S, K, * TA.) ― -b9- And as مَسَّ originally signifies “ he touched or felt with the hand, ” it is used metaphorically as meaning (tropical:) He took a thing; as, for instance, (in a trad.,) water from a مِيضَأَة. (TA.) -A2- مَسَّ is made doubly trans. by means of the prep. بِ prefixed to the second objective complement. (Msb.) See 4, in two places.

3 مَاْسَ3َ see 1, in two places: and see لَا مَسَاسِ.

4 اـمسّهُ الشَّىْءَ ذ He made him, or caused him, to touch the thing: (S, * IJ, M, A: *) he enabled him to touch it. (Mgh.) ― -b2- أَمَسَّ الجَسَدَ مَاآءً, and الجَسَدَ بِمَاآءٍ ↓ مَسَّ, (tropical:) He wetted the body with water; or caused water to wet the body. (Msb.) And أَمَسَّ وَجْهَهُ الطِّيبَ (tropical:) He smeared his face with the perfume. (Mgh.) And أَمَسَّتْهُ عَارِضَيْهَا, and بِعَارِضَيْهَا ↓ مَسَّتْهُ, (tropical:) She smeared the sides of her cheeks with it; namely, perfume. (Mgh.) ― -b3- أَمَسَّهُ شَكْوَى (tropical:) He made a complaint to him. (M, TA.)

6 تماسّا ذ They (two bodies) touched each other; were, or became, in contact. (M, A, * K, *) ― -b2- Hence, (K,) (tropical:) They two came together in the way of مُبَاضَعَة: (S, Msb, * K: *) in this sense the verb is used in the Kur, lviii. 4 and 5. (S, TA.) See also مَسَّهَا.

مَسٌّ ذ : see 1. ― -b2- It is used to denote [the first sensible effect of] anything annoying or hurtful that befalls a man. (TA.) Thus in the Kur, [liv. 48,] (TA,) ذُوقُوا مَسَّ سَقَرَ (tropical:) Taste ye the first effect upon you of the fire of hell: (K, TA:) or the stroke thereof: (Jel:) or the heat and pain thereof. (Bd.) In like manner you say, (K,) وَجَدَ مَسَّ الحُمَّى (M, K) (tropical:) He felt the commencement, or first touch, [or access, ] of fever, before its taking him forcibly, and becoming apparent. (M, L.) And لَمْ يَجِدْ مَسًّا مِنَ النَّصَبِ (tropical:) He did not feel the first sensation of fatigue. (TA, from a trad.) [And hence,] بِهِ مَسٌّ مِنَ الجُنُونِ (tropical:) [ In him is a touch, or stroke, of madness, or insanity, or diabolical possession ]: (S, TA:) and مَسٌّ, alone, signifies madness, or insanity, or diabolical possession: (M, A, * Mgh, K:) as in the Kur, ii. 276: (TA:) and you say بِهِ مَسٌّ in him is madness, &c.: (A, * Mgh:) for they assert that the devil touches one and his intellect in consequence becomes confused. (Mgh.) ― -b3- You say also, هُوَ حَسَنُ المَسِّ فِى مَالِهِ (tropical:) He has the impress of a good state, or condition, in his camels, or sheep, or goats: and رَأَيْتُ لَهُ مَسًّا فِى مَالِهِ (tropical:) I saw him to have an impress of a good state, or condition, in his camels, &c.: like as you say اـِصْبَعًا. (A, TA.)

لَا مَسَاسِ ذ , (S, M, K,) like قَطَامِ, (S, K,) indecl., with kesr for its termination, because altered from the inf. n. مَسٌّ, (S,) signifies [properly There shall be no touching: or] touch not thou: (K:) or touch not thou me: (M:) and some read thus in the Kur, [xx. 97:] (M, K:) it is a saying of the Arabs: (S:) and sometimes one says مَسَاسِ [alone], in the sense of an imperative, [affirmatively,] like دَرَاكِ and نَزَالِ: (K:) but ↓ لَا مِسَاسَ, in the Kur, [ubi supra,] (S, M, K,) accord. to the reading of others, (M,) signifies There shall be no mutual touching: (M:) or I will not touch nor will I be touched. (S, K.)

لَا مِسَاسَ ذ : see لَا مَسَاسِ.

مَسُوسٌ ذ (tropical:) Water that is reached by the hands; or taken with the extended hands: (M, K, * TA:) in the K, نَالَتْهُ is put by mistake for تَنَاوَلَتْهُ [which is the reading in the M]: (TA:) accord. to which explanation, it has the signification of a pass. part. n.: (M:) or, [in the K and,] (tropical:) wholesome water, (A, TA,) that removes thirst, or the heat of thirst, as soon as it touches it: (M, A, * K, * TA:) accord. to which explanation, it has the signification of an act. part. n.: (M:) and (assumed tropical:) anything that cures thirst, or the heat of thirst: (IAar, K:) or, [in the K, and,] (assumed tropical:) water between sweet and salt: (S, K:) or, [in the K and,] (assumed tropical:) sweet and clear water: (As, K:) and (assumed tropical:) salt, or bitter and thick and undrinkable, water, that burns everything by its saltness. (M.) You say also رِيقَةٌ مَسُوسٌ (tropical:) Some saliva that takes away thirst. (IAar, M.) And كَلَأٌ مَسُوسٌ (assumed tropical:) Herbage that has a fattening and beneficial effect upon the animals that pasture on it. (AHn, M.) ― -b2- Also, i. q. فَادْزَهْرٌ [The bezoar-stone ]: (K:) or تِرْيَاقٌ [ an antidote against poison ]: (M:) or both these words by which it is explained mean the same thing. (TA.)

مَسَّاسَةٌ ذ : see مَاسَّهٌ.

حَاجَةٌ مَاسَّةٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) A want difficult of accomplishment; or pressing; syn. مُهِمْةٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- رَحِمٌ مَاسَّةٌ (tropical:) Near relationship; (S, M, A, * K;) as also ↓ مَسَّاسَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- [Also, as a subst., sing. of مَوَاسٌّ, of which an ex. has been given above, (see 1,) signifying Haps of good fortune, and of evil.]

مَمْسُوسٌ ذ A man in whom is a touch, or stroke, (مَسٌّ,) of madness, insanity, or diabolical possession: (S, TA:) or mad, insane, or possessed by a devil. (AA, M, A, Mgh, K.)

1 مَسَأَ الطَّرِيقَ ذ He went along the middle of the road; (K;) or the hard and elevated part (مَتْن) of the road. (TA.) ― -b2- مَسَأَ He was slow, or tardy. (K.) ― -b3- مَسَأَ حَقَّهُ He delayed giving him his due. (K, TA.) ― -b4- مَسَأَ القِدْرَ He stilled, or allayed, the boiling of the pot. (K.) ― -b5- مَسَأَهُ بِالقَوْلِ He soothed, or softened, him by words. (K.) ― -b6- مَسَأَ He beguiled, or deceived. (K.) ― -b7- مَسَأَ عَلَى شَىْءٍ, (K,) inf. n. مَسْءٌ, (TA,) He became accustomed, or inured to a thing. (K.) -A2- مَسَأَ بَيْنَهُمْ and ↓ امسأ, He excited discord between them. (K, TA.) ― -b2- مَسَأَ, (S, K,) aor. مَسَاَ , (K,) inf. n. مَسْءٌ (S, K) and مُسُوءٌ, (K,) He was hard, or impudent, and rude; not caring for what one said, or did to him. (AZ, S, K.)

4 أَمْسَاَ see 1.

5 تمسّأ ذ It (a garment) rent, or became ragged and worn out. (IB, K.)

مَسْءٌ ذ The middle of a road. (K.) [See 1, and see مِسْحٌ.]

مَاسِئٌ ذ Hard, or impudent, and rude; not caring for what one says or does to him. (AZ, S.) Perhaps مَاسٍ is from this: (see art. مسى:) or perhaps it is formed by transposition from مَائِسٌ: see art. ميس. (AM.)

1 مَسَحَ شَيْئًا ذ , aor. مَسَحَ , inf. n. مَسْحٌ; and ↓ مسّحهُ, inf. n تَمْسِيحٌ; He wiped a thing that was wet or dirty, with his hand, or passed his hand over it to remove the wet or dirt that was upon it: (L:) مَسْحٌ and تَمْسِيحٌ and ↓ تَمَسُّحٌ signifying the passing the hand over a thing that is flowing [ with water or the like ], or dirtied, soiled, or polluted, to remove the fluid or dirt, or soil or pollution; (L, K;) as when one wipes his head with his hand to remove water; and his forehead, to remove sweat. (L.) [It often signifies He stroked a thing with his hand; as, for instance, the Black Stone of the Kaabeh; see below.] ― -b2- مَسَحَ رَأْسَهُ مِنَ المَاآءِ; and جَبِينَهُ الرَّشَحِ; He wiped his head with his hand to remove the water that was upon it; and his forehead to remove the sweat. (L.) ― -b3- مَسَحَ بِرَأْسِهِ (S) He wiped with his hand, or passed his hand closely over, his head, or a part thereof, without making any water to flow upon it: so in the Kur, v. 8; where it is said, فَا@غْسِلُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَأَيْدِيَكُمْ اـِلَى ا@لْمَرَافِقِ وَا@مْسَحُوا بِرُؤُوسِكُمْ وَأَرْجُلَكُمْ اـِلَى ا@لْكَعْبَيْنِ: here أَرْجُلَكُمْ is in the acc. case as an adjunct to ايديكم; [i.e., as a third objective complement to the verb اغسلوا; not as an adjunct to رؤوسكم;] but some read أَرْجُلِكُمْ, putting it in the gen. case because of its proximity to رؤوسكم; (Jel;) [in like manner as خَرِبٍ is put in the gen. case in the phrase هٰذَا جُحْرُ ضَبٍّ خَرِبٍ, an ex. given by many of the grammarians, showing that this is allowable in prose,] notwithstanding that it is said, by Aboo-Is-hák the grammarian, that the putting a noun in the gen. case because of its proximity to a preceding noun in that case is not allowable except in poetry, when necessity requires it: (L:) the head, which is wiped, is mentioned between the arms and the feet, which are washed, to show the order which is to be observed in the purification. (Jel.) But مَسَحَ signifies both he wiped with the hand, and also he washed: so says IAth: (L:) and AZ and IKt say the like: (Msb:) you say مَسَحْتُ يَدَىَّ بالمَاآءِ, meaning I washed my hands with water. (AZ, Msb.) ― -b4- مَسَحَ شَيْئًا بِالمَاآءِ He wiped a thing with his hand wetted with water; passed his hand, wetted with water, over a thing. (Msb.) ― -b5- مَسَحَ البَيْت He compassed the House [ of God, i.e. the Kaabeh: because he who does so passes his hand over the corner in which is the Black Stone]. (L.) ― -b6- مَسَحَ ا@للّٰهُ عَنْكَ مَا بِكَ May God remove that which is in thee! (L;) or, wash and cleanse thee from thy sins! (TA, art. مصح.) A prayer for a sick person. (L, from a trad.) ― -b7- مَسَحَهُ He anointed him or it with oil. (A.) ― -b8- مُسِحَ بِالكَرَمِ, inf. n. مَسْحٌ, (tropical:) He was characterized by somewhat, or by some sign or mark, of nobility. (L.) [See مَسْحَةٌ.] ― -b9- مَسَحَ, inf. n. مَسْحٌ, He combed and dressed hair; syn. مَشَطَ. (K.) ― -b10- مَسْحُ اللُّحِىَ [ The stroking of the beards ] was a sign of reconciliation. (S, O, in art. عق: see عَقُ بِالسَّهْمِ.) ― -b11- مَسَحَهُ, or مَسَحَهُ بِالمَعْرُوفِ, i. e. بالمعروف مِنَ القَوْلِ, (L,) inf. n. مَسْحٌ; (L, K;) and ↓ مسّحهُ, (L,) inf. n. تَمْسِيحٌ; (L, K;) He spoke to him good words, deceiving, or beguiling, him therein, (L, K,) and giving him nothing. (L.) ― -b12- فُلَانٌ يَمْسَحُ رَأْسَ زَيْدٍ (tropical:) Such a one beguiles, or deceives, Zeyd. (A.) [See also 3.] ― -b13- مَسَحَ, inf. n. مَسْحٌ and تَمْسَاحٌ He lied; uttered what was false. (K.) ― -b14- مَسَحَ فِى الأَرْضِ, inf. n. مُسُوحٌ, He set forth journeying through the land, or earth: (A'Obeyd, K: *) as also مَصَحَ. (TA.) ― -b15- مَسَحَهُمْ (tropical:) He passed lightly by them, or brushed by them, without remaining by them. (L.) ― -b16- مَسِحَ, [aor. مَسَحَ ,] inf. n. مَسَحٌ, The inner sides of his (a man's, S) thighs rubbed together, (S, L, K,) so as to become sore and chapped: (L:) or he had the inner side of his knee inflamed by the roughness of his garment. (L, K.) ― -b17- مَسَحَ الاـِبِلَ, inf. n. مَسْحٌ (tropical:) He made the camels to journey all the day long: and he made the backs of the camels to be wounded by the saddles, and emaciated them; as also ↓ مَسَّحَهَا, inf. n. تَمْسِيحٌ: (K:) and in the latter sense you say مَسَحَ النَّاقَةَ, and ↓ مسّحها. (TA.) ― -b18- مَسَحَتِ الاـِبِلُ يَوْمَهَا (tropical:) The camels journeyed all the day. (S.) مَسَحَتِ الاـِبِلُ الأَرْضَ يَوْمَهَا دَأْبًا (tropical:) The camels journeyed all the day laboriously. (TA.) -A2- مَسَحَ, (S,) inf. n. مَسْحٌ (K) and مِسَاحَةٌ, (S, K,) or the latter is a simple subst., (Msb,) (tropical:) He measured land. (S, K.) -A3- مَسَحَ, inf. n. مَسْحٌ, (tropical:) He cut, or severed: and he struck, or smote: (K:) he severed the neck, and the arm. (TA.) مَسَحَ عُنُقَهُ and بِعُنُقِهِن, aor. مَسَحَ , inf. n. مَسْحٌ, He smote his neck: or, as some say, severed it, or cut it through. Agreeably with both these significations مَسْحًا is rendered in the Kur, xxxviii. 32: some say that what is here meant is the wiping with the hand wetted with water: accord. to IAth, Solomon is here said to have smitten the necks and hock-tendons of the horses. (L.) [See art. طفق.] مَسَحَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ He smote him with the sword: (L:) and he cut him with the sword: (S, L:) or مَسَحَهُ signifies he struck him gently with a staff, or stick, and with a sword. (TA in art. دهن.) ― -b2- See 8. ― -b3- Also مَسَحَهُمْ He slew them. (L.) -A4- مَسَحَهُ, (inf. n. مَسْحٌ, K,) He (God) created him blessed, (AHeyth, K,) and goodly: (AHeyth:) ― -b2- and, contr., created him accursed, (AHeyth, K,) and foul, or ugly. (AHeyth.) -A5- مَسَحَ, (S,) inf. n. مَسْحٌ, (K,) (tropical:) Inivit feminam. (S, K.)

2 مَسَّحَ see 1, in four places.

3 ماسحهُ ذ (tropical:) He took him by the hand; applied the palm of his hand to the palm of the other's hand. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) He made a compact, or covenant, with him. (TA.) ― -b3- مَاسَحَا (tropical:) They used blandishing, soothing, or wheedling, words, one to the other, deceiving thereby; (K;) their hearts not being sincere. (TA.) You say غَضِبَ فَمَاسَحْتُهُ حَتَّى لَانَ (tropical:) He was angry, and I coaxed, or wheedled, him until he became gentle, or mild. (TA.) [See also 1.]

5 تمسّح بِالمَاآءِ ذ He washed himself with water. (A, Z.) ― -b2- تمسّح (tropical:) He performed the ablution called الوُضُوْء. (IAth.) ― -b3- تمسّح بِالأَرْضِ (S, L) (tropical:) He performed the action termed التَّيَمُّم: or he made his forehead to touch the ground in prostration, without anything intervening. (L.) ― -b4- فُلَانٌ يُتَمَسَّحُ بِثَوْبِهِ (tropical:) Such a one has his garment passed over men's persons as a means of their advancing themselves in the favour of God: (L:) [i.e., he is a holy man, from the touch of whose garment a blessing is derived: see St. Matthew's Gospel, ix., 20 and 21]. فُلَانٌ يُتَمَسَّحُ بِهِ (tropical:) Such a one is a person by means of whom one looks for a blessing (بُتَبَرَّكُ بِهِ,) by reason of his excellence, (K,) and his devotion; (TA;) as though one advanced himself in the favour of God by approaching him. (L.) [See also an ex. voce رُكْنٌ.] ― -b5- فُلَانٌ يَتَمَسَّحُ (tropical:) Such a one has nothing with him, or in his possession; as though he wiped his arms with his hands: (K:) [for it is a custom of the Arabs to do thus as an indication of having nothing.] ― -b6- تمسّح He wiped himself, مِنْ شَىْءٍ to remove a thing, and بِشَىْءٍ, with a thing. (L.) [See also 1.]

6 تَمَاسَحَا ذ (tropical:) They acted in a friendly or sincere manner, one to the other; syn. تَصَادَقَا: or they made a contract, or bargain, one with the other, and each struck the palm of the other's hand with the palm of his own hand [ to confirm it ], (K,) and swore to the other. (TA.) ― -b2- تَمَاسَحُوا (tropical:) They took one another by the hand. (TA.)

8 امتسح ذ He drew a sword (K) from its scabbard; as also ↓ مَسَحَ. (TA.)

مَسْحٌ ذ i. q. بَلَاسٌ; (S, K;) i.e., A garment of thick, or coarse, hair-cloth: so in the T: and a piece of such stuff as is spread in a house or tent: (TA:) a بلاس such as is worn by monks: (Mgh:) a كِسَاآء of hair-cloth: (L:) an old and worn-out garment: (Kull:) pl. أَمْسَاحٌ and مُسُوحٌ; (S;) the former a pl. of pauc., and the latter a pl. of mult. (L.) ― -b2- مِسْحٌ The main part, and middle, of a road; syn. جَادَّةٌ: (K:) pl. أَمْسَاحٌ (TA) and مُسُوحٌ. (K.)

مَسَحٌ ذ , a subst., Paucity of flesh in the posteriors and thighs; or smallness of the buttocks, and their sticking together; or paucity of flesh in the thighs; syn. رَسَحٌ. (L.)

عَلَى فُلَانٍ مَسْحَةٌ مِنْ جَمَالٍ ذ , (S, K,) or ↓ مِسْحَةٌ, (L,) (tropical:) Upon such a one there appears somewhat of beauty; (L, K;) or, some sign, or mark, or trait, of beauty: (L:) and مسحةُ كَرَمٍ, some sign, or mark, trait, or indication, of nobility; and the like: a mode of expression said, by Sh, to be used only in praise; so that you do not say عَلَيْهِ مسحةُ قُبْحٍ: (L:) but you say also بِهِ مسحةٌ مِنْ هُزَالٍ in him is somewhat, or some sign, or mark, of leanness; (L, K;) which is a phrase of the Arabs mentioned by Az. (L.) ― -b2- مَسْحَةٌ in the cheek of a horse: see صِفَاحٌ.

مِسْحَةٌ ذ : see مَسْحَةٌ.

مَسِيحٌ ذ Anointed: wiped over with some such thing as oil. (K.) ― -b2- A king. (El-'Eynee.) ― -b3- المَسِيحُ [ The Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed, ] Jesus, on whom be peace ! (S, Msb, K,) [correctly] an arabicized word, [from the Hebrew,] originally مَشِيحَا, with ش: (T, Msb:) but the learned differ as to this word, whether it be Arabic or arabicized: F relates, in the K, his having mentioned, in his Expos. of the Meshárik el-Anwár, fifty opinions respecting the derivation of it; and in another work he has made the number fifty-six. (TA.) ― -b4- Also, (K,) or المَسِيحُ الكَذَّابُ, (S,) or ↓ المِسِّيحُ, (K,) [ The Messiah, or Christ, surnamed the Great Liar; the False Christ; Antichrist; also called] EdDejjál, الدَّجَّالُ: (S, K:) it is not allowable, however, to apply to him the appellation المَسِيحُ without restriction; wherefore one says المَسِيحُ الدَّجَّالُ [or الكَذَّابُ]; (TA;) [unless in a case like the following, in which] a poet says اـِذَا المَسِيحُ يَقْتُلُ المَسِيحَ [ When the true Messiah shall slay the false Messiah ] (Msb.) [Many opinions respecting the derivation of the appellation thus applied are also mentioned by various authors.] ― -b5- مَسِيحٌ Sweat: (T, S, K:) so called because it is wiped off (يُمْسَحُ) when it pours forth. (T.) ― -b6- مَسِيحٌ (tropical:) A dirhem [or silver coin] of which the impression is obliterated; syn. أَطْلَسُ; (S, Msb, K;) having no impression. (Msb.) ― -b7- مَسِيحٌ (S, K) and ↓ مَسِيحَةٌ (TA) A piece of silver. (As, S, K.) ― -b8- مَسِيحٌ. (tropical:) i. q. مَمْسُوحُ الوَجْهِ, (K,) i.e., A man having one side of his face plain, without eye or eyebrow: said to apply in this sense to EdDejjál, among others. (IF, L.) ― -b9- One-eyed. (Az.) [See also أَمْسَحُ.] ― -b10- مَسِيحٌ A rough napkin, or kerchief, with which one wipes himself: (L, K:) so called because the face is wiped with it, or because it retains the dirt. (TA.) [A dusting-cloth, or dish-clout, or the like, is now called ↓ مِمْسَحَةٌ.] ― -b11- مَسِيحٌ Beautiful in the face. (TA.) ― -b12- مَسِيحٌ One who journeys or goes about much for the sake of devotion, or as a devotee; as also ↓ مِسِّيحٌ (K,) and ↓ أَمْسَحُ, (TA,) the fem. of which is مَسْحَاآءُ. (K, TA.) See مَسَّاحٌ. -A2- مَسِيحٌ (tropical:) Multum coiens; as also ↓ مَاسِحٌ. (K.) ― -b2- مَسِيحٌ Erring greatly. (TA.) ― -b3- مَسِيحٌ A great liar; one who lies much; as also ↓ مَاسِحٌ and ↓ مِمْسَحٌ (K) and ↓ تِمْسَحٌ (Lh, K) and ↓ أَمْسَحُ, (TA,) the fem. of which last is مَسْحَاآءُ. (K, TA.) See مَاسِحٌ. -A3- مَسِيحٌ Very veracious; syn. صِدِّيقٌ: (K, L, TA: in the CK صَدِيقٌ:) a meaning unknown to many of the lexicologists, and probably obsolete in their time. (L.) -A4- مَسِيحٌ Created blessed, and goodly; (L;) created (مَمْسُوحٌ) with blessing, or prosperity: (K:) ― -b2- and, contr., created accursed, and foul, or ugly; (L;) created with unfortunateness. (K.)

مِسَاحَةٌ ذ (tropical:) Mensuration of land. (Msb.) [See also 1.] ― -b2- See also تَكْسِيرٌ.

مَسِيحَةٌ ذ i. q. ذُؤَابَةٌ, [ a portion, or lock, of hair hanging down loosely from the middle of the head to the back; or the hair of the fore part of the head; the hair over the forehead; or the part whence that hair grows; or a plait of hair hanging down; &c. ]: (S, L, K:) or hair that is left without its being dressed with oil or anything else: or that part of a man's head that is between the ear and the eyebrow, rising to the part below that where the sutures of the scull unite: or that part of the side of the hair upon which a man puts his hand, next to his ear: or the hair of each side of the head: pl. مَسَائِحُ: or مسائح signifies the place which a man wipes with his hand: or, accord. to As, the hair: or, accord. to Sh, the hair which one wipes with his hand, upon his cheek and his head. (L.) ― -b2- See مَسِيحٌ. -A2- مَسِيحَةٌ A bow: (S, K:) or an excellent bow: (L.) pl. مَسَائحُ. (S, K.)

مَسَّاحٌ ذ (tropical:) A measurer of land; (TA;) as also ↓ مَسِيحٌ. (L.)

مِسِّيحٌ ذ and المِسِّيحُ: see مَسِيحٌ.

بِهِ مَاسِحٌ ذ He (a camel) has a fretting of the edge of the callosity upon his breast, produced by his elbow, without making it bleed: if he make it bleed, you say بِهِ حَازٌّ: (S, L:) and he has a chafing of his arm-pit produced by his elbow, but not violent, by reason of the disease called ضَاغِط. (L.) ― -b2- See مَسِيحٌ. ― -b3- مَاسِحٌ and ↓ مَسِيحٌ A great slayer; one who slays much, or many. (Az, L.)

مَاسِحَةٌ ذ A woman who combs and dresses hair; syn. مَاشِطَةٌ. (S.)

أَمْسَحُ ذ A flat place, with small pebbles, and without plants, or herbage. (S.) ― -b2- مَسْحَاآءُ A plain tract of land, with small pebbles, (S, K,) and without plants, or herbage: (S:) [ex.] مَرَرْتُ بِخَرِيقٍ مِنَ الأَرْضِ بِيْنَ مَسْحَاوَيْنِ [ I passed by a depressed tract of land containing herbage between two plain tracts containing small pebbles and without herbage ]: (Fr, S:) or a piece of flat ground, bare, abounding with pebbles, containing no trees nor herbage, rugged, somewhat hard, like a flat place in which camels &c. are confined, or in which dates are dried, not what is termed قُفّ, nor what is termed سَهْلَة: (ISh:) pl. مَسَاحٍ and مَسَاحى [i. e. مَسَاحَى or مَسَاحِىُّ]; pl. forms proper to substs.; as it is an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (L.) ― -b3- Also مَسْحاآءُ Red land. (K.) ― -b4- مَسْحَاآءُ A woman having little flesh in her posteriors and thighs; or foul, ugly, or unseemly; syn. رَسْحَاآءُ. (S.) [In the K., الأَرْضُ الرَّسْحَاآءُ, given as an explanation of المَسْحَاآءُ, is an evident mistake for المَرْأَةُ الرَّسْحَاآءُ, as observed by Freytag.] ― -b5- أَمْسَحُ, or أَمْسَحُ القَدَمِ, A man having a flat sole to his foot, without any hollow: (L:) fem. مَسْحَاآءُ: (L, K:) and ↓ مَسِيحٌ, or القَدَمَيْنِ ↓ مَسِيحُ, signifies the same: and also having smooth and soft feet, without fissures or chaps, so that they repel water when it falls upon them. (L.) ― -b6- Also مَسْحَاآءُ, (K,) or مسحاآءُ الثَّدْىِ, (L,) A woman whose breast has no bulk. (L, K.) ― -b7- Also مَسْحَاآءُ A one-eyed woman: [see also مَسِيحٌ:] and such as is termed بِخْقَاآءُ, whose eye is not مُلَوَّزَة: so in [most of] the copies of the K., but in some, بِلَّوْرَة: (TA:) [the meaning seems to be whose eye has no crystalline humour ]. ― -b8- أَمْسَحُ A man having little flesh in his posteriors and thighs; or having small buttocks sticking together; syn. ارسح: fem. مَسْحَاآءُ: pl. مُسْحٌ. (L.) ― -b9- أَمْسَحَ A man (S) having the inner sides of his thighs rubbing together (S, L, K) so as to become sore and chapped: (L:) or having the inner side of his knee inflamed by the roughness of his garment: (L, K:) fem. مَسْحَاآءُ, and pl. مُسْحٌ. (L.) ― -b10- غَارَةٌ مَسْحَاآءُ (tropical:) A hostile attack, or incursion, by a troop of horse, in which the attacking party passes lightly by the party attacked, or brushes by them, without remaining by them. (L, from a trad.) ― -b11- See مَسِيحٌ.

أَمْسَح ذ [app. used as a subst., and therefore with, or without, tenween,] A flat tract of land: pl. أَمَاسِحُ. (TA.) ― -b2- A smooth desert; or smooth waterless desert. (Lth.)

أُمْسُوحٌ ذ Any long piece of wood in a ship: (K:) pl. أَمَاسِيحٌ. (TA.)

مِمْسَحٌ ذ and مِمْسَحَةٌ: see مَسِيحٌ.

مَمْسُوحُ الأَلْيَتَيْنِ ذ Having the buttocks cleaving to the bone, and small. (L.) ― -b2- مَمْسُوحٌ A eunuch whose testicles have been extirpated. (TA.) ― -b3- عَضُدٌ مَمْسُوحَةٌ An arm, from the shoulder to the elbow, having little flesh. (TA.) ― -b4- مَمْسُوحُ A thing foul, or ugly, and unfortunate, and changed from its proper form, or make. (TA.) [See art. مسخ.]

تِمْسَحٌ ذ A dissembler; a deceiver; (K;) one who blandishes, soothes, or wheedles, one with his words, and deceives him. (TA.) ― -b2- تِمْسَحٌ An audacious, or insolent, and wicked, or corrupt, man: (L, K:) or a great liar, who, if asked, will not tell thee truly whence he comes; who lies to thee even as to the place whence he comes. (L.) [See also مَسِيحٌ.] ― -b3- See تِمْسَاحٌ.

تِمْسَاحٌ ذ , (S, Msb, K,) and ↓ تِمْسَحٌ, (Msb, K,) the latter app. a contraction of the former, (Msb,) [The crocodile ]; a well-known aquatic animal, (S,) a creature like the tortoise, of great size, found in the Nile of Egypt and in the river Mihrán, (K,) which is the river of Es-Sind; (TA;) or [ rather ] resembling the وَرَل about five cubits long, and less; that seizes men and oxen, and dives into the water with them and devours them: pl. of the former تَمَاسِيحٌ, and of the latter تَمَاسِحُ. (Msb.)

1 مَسَخَهُ ذ , (S, K,) aor. مَسَخَ , (K,) inf. n. مَسْخٌ, (S,) He transformed him, or metamorphosed him, (S, Msb, K,) into a worse, or more foul, or more ugly, shape. (S, K.) Ex. مَسَخَهُ ا@للّٰهُ قِرْدًا God transformed him into an ape. (S, K.) [See Kur, xxxvi. 67.] ― -b2- مَسَخَ شِعْرًا He took and transformed poetry; accord. to the most common usage, by the substitution of what is synonymous with the original, wholly or partly; but sometimes by altering the meanings. (M, F.) See 1 (last sentence) in art. سلخ. ― -b3- مَسَخَ الكَاتِبُ The writer corrupted what he wrote by changing the diacritical points and altering the meaning. (Msb.) ― -b4- مَسَخَ النَّاقَةَ, (L, K,) aor. مَسَخَ , inf. n. مَسْخٌ, (L,) (tropical:) He rendered the she-camel lean, and wounded her back, by fatigue and use: (A'Obeyd, L, K:) as also مَسَحَ. (L.) ― -b5- مَسُخَ, [aor. مَسُخَ ,] inf. n. مَسَاخَةٌ (assumed tropical:) It (flesh-meat, and fruit,) was, or became, tasteless, or insipid: it (food) had no salt nor colour nor taste: and, sometimes, it was between sweet and bitter. (L.) ― -b6- مَسَخَ طَعْمَهُ (assumed tropical:) It caused its taste to depart; took away its taste. (S.)

4 امسخ ذ It (a humour) became dissolved. (L, K.)