Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

7 اـِمَّسَخَتِ العَضُدُ ذ , [or اـِنْمَسَخَت, the original form,] The arm, between the shoulder and the elbow, became lean. (L.) اـِنْمِسَاخُ حَمَاةِ الفَرَسِ Lankness of the muscle of the thigh (ساق) called ] the حماة of the horse (S, K) is disliked. (S.) [In some copies of the S, this is omitted.]

مَسْخٌ ذ and ↓ مَسِيخٌ, (L, K,) [the former originally an inf. n., and therefore used as sing. and dual and pl. without alteration, though مُسُوخٌ is used as a pl. by late writers, (see De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., ii. 273,)] the latter of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, (L,) Transformed, or metamorphosed, into a worse, or more foul, or more ugly, shape. (L, K.) Ex. الجَانُّ مَسْخُ الجِنِّ The Jánn, which are slender serpents, are the transformed of the Jinn, or Genii; like as certain persons of the Children of Israel were transformed into apes. [See Kur, ii. 61.] (L, from a trad.) ― -b2- Also, the ↓ latter, Deformed; rendered ugly in make, or form. (K.) Hence, some say, the appellation of الدَّجَّالُ ↓ المَسِيخُ [more commonly المَسِيحُ الدّجّان, q. v.]. (TA.) ― -b3- Also, the same, (tropical:) A man having no beauty. (S, K.) ― -b4- And (assumed tropical:) Weak and stupid: (K:) also an epithet applied to a man. (TA.) ― -b5- And (assumed tropical:) Flesh-meat, (S, L, K,) and fruit, (L, K,) that has no taste; tasteless; insipid: (S, L, K:) or, applied to food, that has no salt nor colour nor taste: and sometimes, that is between sweet and bitter. (L.) El-Ash'ar Er-Rakabán, of the tribe of Asad, a Jáhilee, says, addressing a man named Ridwán, (L,) مَسِيخٌ مَلِيخٌ كَلَحْمِ الحُوَا رِ لَا أَنْتَ حُلْوٌ وَلَا أَنْتَ مُرٌّ [ Tasteless, insipid, like the flesh of a new-born camel, thou art not sweet nor art thou bitter ]. (S, L.)

مَسَخٌ ذ Leanness of the arm, between the shoulder and the elbow. (L.)

مَسِيخٌ ذ : see مَسْخٌ.

مَاسِخِىٌّ ذ A bow-maker. (S, L, K.) AHn says, that مَاسِخَةُ, a man of the tribe of Azd, of Es-Saráh, is asserted to have been a bowmaker: and Ibn-El-Kelbee says, that he was the first of the Arabs who made bows; that the people of Es-Saráh who made bows and arrows were numerous, because of the abundance of trees in their district, and hence every bowmaker in after times received the above appel-lation. (L.) ― -b2- مَاسِخِيَّةٌ (L, K) and مَاسِخِيَّاتٌ (S, L) Bows: so called in relation to the abovementioned bow-maker, Másikhah of the tribe of Azd: (S, L, K:) Másikhah was his surname, and his name was Nubeysheh the son of El- Hárith, one of the sons of Nasr the son of Azd. (TA.)

هُوَ أَمَسَخُ مِنْ لَحْمِ الحُوَارِ ذ [ He , or it, is more tasteless, or insipid, than the flesh of the newborn camel ]: i.e., he, or it, has no taste. A proverb. (S.)

مَمْسُوخٌ ذ A horse, having little flesh in the rump, or buttocks: and مَمْسُوخَةٌ العَجُزِ A woman having little flesh in her posteriors: (K:) but the more approved pronunciation is with ح. (TA.)

1 مَسَدَ ذ , aor. مَسُدَ , (S, M, L,) inf. n. مَسْدٌ, (S, M, L, K,) He twisted a rope: (M, L, K:) or he twisted it well. (ISk, S, L.) ― -b2- مَسَدَ, aor. مَسُدَ , (M, L,) inf. n. مَسْدٌ, (S, M, L, K,) He pursued a journey laboriously, or with energy; or he held on, or continued, the journey; syn. أَدْأَبَ السَّيْرَ, (S, M, L, K,) by night: (S, M, L:) or he journeyed on continually, whether by night or by day: (M, L:) because the so journeying renders an animal lean, or lank. (Lth, L.) ― -b3- مَسَدَ, aor. مَسُدَ , [inf. n. مَسْدٌ,] (tropical:) It (leguminous herbage, A, or continued travel, Lth) rendered an animal lean, lank, light of flesh, slender, or lank in the belly. (Lth, A, L.) El-'Abdee says, describing a she-camel, and likening her to a wild bull, يَمْسُدُهُ القَفْرُ وَلَيْلٌ سَدِى The bare and waterless desert renders him lean, &c., and dewy night. (L.) ― -b4- مُسِدَ, inf. n. مَسْدٌ, (tropical:) It (the belly) was, or became, soft, of small dimensions, even, and without any ugliness. (M, L.) ― -b5- The following expression of Ru-beh, يَمْسُدُ أَعْلَى لَحْمِهِ وَيَأْرِمُهُ means (tropical:) It (the milk of camels) strengthens the upper parts of his flesh, (referring to a pastor, not to an ass, as J says, IB, L,) and renders it, firm. (L.) ― -b6- حَسَنَةُ المَسْدِ, applied to a damsel, (tropical:) i. q. مَمْسُودَةٌ, q. v. (S, L.)

مَسَدٌ ذ The fibres that grow at the roots of the branches of the palm-tree; syn. لِيفٌ: (S, A, L:) you say حَبْلٌ مِنْ مَسَدٍ a rope, or halter, of those fibres: (S, A:) also, مَسَدٌ alone signifies a rope of those fibres: (S, M, L, K:) or, of those of the [ kind of palm-tree called ] مُقْل: (Zj, L, K:) or, of the leaves of the palm-tree: or, of the soft hair of the camel: (S, M, L: [see an ex. voce زَاهِقٌ:]) or, of other hair: or, of wool: or, of hides: (M, L:) or, of camels' hides: (S, L:) or, of plants: or, of the bark of a tree: (L:) or, of any thing: (M, L, K:) or a plaited rope, firmly twisted, (M, L, K,) of any of the materials above mentioned: (M, L:) applied to a rope, it is for مَمْسُودٌ; and is thus similar to نَفْضٌ, meaning ما نُفِضَ: (L:) pl. أَمْسَادٌ and مِسَادٌ. (M, L, K.) حَبْلٌ مِنْ مَسَدٍ in the Kur, cxi., last verse, is said to mean A chain seventy cubits in length, whereby the woman upon whose neck it is to be put shall be led into hell, (Zj, T, M, L,) firmly twisted of iron; as though it were a rope of iron strongly twisted. (L.) ― -b2- مَسَدٌ مُغَارٌ (tropical:) A back compact like a rope strongly twisted. (M, L.) ― -b3- مَسَدٌ An iron axis of a pulley. (M, L, K.)

مِسَادٌ ذ , a dial. form of مِسْأَبٌ; (S, L, K;) i. e., A skin for clarified butter: and one for honey: (S, M, L:) a black skin for wine &c. (AA, L.)

سَاقٌ مَسْدَاآءُ ذ (tropical:) An even, and a goodly, or beautiful, shank. (M, L.)

مَمْسُودٌ ذ (tropical:) A man of well-turned, compact, and slender, make; syn. مَجْدُولُ الخَلْقِ; (S, L, K;) i. e., light of flesh; or tall and slender; or of goodly stature; syn. مَمْشُوقٌ; as though twisted; (TA:) a belly soft, of small dimensions, even, and having in it no ugliness. (M, L.) مَمْسُودَةٌ, applied to a damsel; (S, K;) the same as the masc. applied to a man; (L, K;) slender; or light of flesh; or tall and slender; or of goodly stature: (L, M:) and, applied to a woman, compact in make; of well-knit frame. (L.)

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1 مَشَّ ذ , (S, A,) aor. مَشُ3َ , (S,) inf. n. مَشٌّ, (S, A, K,) He wiped his hand with a thing, (S, A, K), or with a rough thing, (As, S,) and with a napkin, (A,) to cleanse it, (S, A, K,) and to remove its greasiness. (As, S, A, K.) [See an ex. in a verse cited voce مُضَهَّبٌ.] You say also, مَشَّ أُذُنَهُ, and بِأُذُنِهِ, He wiped his ear. (TA.) And أُمْشُشْ مُخَاطَكَ Wipe thou away the mucus of thy nose. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) He wiped an arrow, and a bow-string, with his garment, to make it soft. (A, TA. *) -A2- مَشَّ, (Lth, A, Mgh,) [aor. and] inf. n. as above, (K,) He sucked, (Lth, A, Mgh,) a bone, (A,) or the heads, or extremites, of bones, (Mgh, K,) [i. e.] what are termed مُشَاش, they being chewed; (Lth;) as also ↓ تمشّشهُ, (Lth, A, K,) and ↓ امتشّهُ, and ↓ مَشْمَشَهُ, of which last the inf. n. is مَشْمَشَةٌ: (TA:) and (TA) العَظْمَ ↓ تمشّش he ate the مُشَاش [q. v.] of the bone: or he sucked the whole of it; or extracted its marrow; syn. تَمَكَّكَهُ: (S, TA:) and ↓ مشّشهُ, (TK,) inf. n. تَمْشِيشٌ, (K,) he extracted its marrow; (K, * TA;) as also ↓ امتشّهُ. (TA.) ― -b2- مَشَّ النَّاقَةَ, (S,) inf. n. as above, (K,) (assumed tropical:) He milked the she-camel leaving some of the milk in the udder: (S, K: *) and مَشٌّ also signifies (assumed tropical:) the milking to the uttermost; and so ↓ اـِمْتِشَاشٌ: (TA:) you say, مَا فِى الضَّرْعِ ↓ امتشّ (assumed tropical:) he took, (K,) i. e. milked, (TA,) all that was in the udder. (K, TA, from Ibn-'Abbád.) ― -b3- هُوَ يَمُشُّ مَالَ فُلَانٍ, (A, TA,) inf. n. as above, (K,) (tropical:) He takes the property of such a one, thing after thing; (A, K, TA;) as also يَمُشُّ مِنْ مَالِهِ: (TA:) or the latter, (accord. to one copy of the S,) or من ماله ↓ يَمْتَشُّ, (accord. to other copies of the S, and the TA,) he obtains of his property. (S, TA.)

2 مَشَّ3َ see 1.

4 امشّ ذ , (K,) inf. n. اـِمْشَاشٌ, (TA,) It (a bone) had in it what might be sucked, or extracted; i. e., (TA,) had in it marrow. (K, TA.)

5 تَمَشَّ3َ see 1, in two places.

8 امتشّ ذ : see 1, in five places. ― -b2- Also, (tropical:) He performed the purification termed اـِسْتَنْجَاآء (IAar, A, K) with a piece of stone or a lump of dry clay or loam. (IAar, K.)

R. Q. 1 مَشْمَشَ ذ : see 1.

مُشَاشٌ ذ The heads of bones, (S, Mgh, K,) that are soft, (S,) that may be chewed, (S, K,) or that are sucked: (Mgh:) or soft bones: (A:) or the heads of bones such as the knees and elbows and shoulder-bones: (A'Obeyd:) and the bone within a horn: (Mgh:) sing. [or rather n. un.] with ة: (S, K,) which is also said to signify the prominent part of the shoulder-bone. (TA.) رَجُلٌ هَشُّ المُشَاشِ رِخْوُ المَغْمَزِ (tropical:) [lit. A man soft, or fragile, in the heads of the bones, flabby where he is felt or pressed, ] denotes dispraise. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) The soul, or spirit; syn. نَفْسٌ. (S, K.) You say فُلَانٌ طَيِّبُ المُشَاشِ (tropical:) Such a one is generous in soul, or spirit. (S, A. *) نَهِشُ المُشَاشِ, applied by Aboo-Dhu-eyb to a horse, means (tropical:) Light, or quick, in spirit, or in the bones, or in the legs. (S, TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) Natural disposition. (K, TA.) You say, فُلَانٌ لَيِّنُ المُشَاشِ (tropical:) Such a one is good in natural disposition; one who abstains from coveting. (TA.) ― -b4- (tropical:) Origin. (K, Ibn-'Abbád.) So in the saying انه لكريم المُشَاشِ (tropical:) Verily he is of generous origin: (Ibn-'Abbád, TA:) or this means (tropical:) verily he is a lord, or chief. (A, TA.) [And similar to this is the saying] ↓ هُوَ فِى مُشَاشَةِ قَوْمِهِ (tropical:) He is among the best of his people. (A, * TA.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) Light, sharp, or quick, and who does much service in journeying and at home: (K:) or (assumed tropical:) light in spirit: or (assumed tropical:) one who is a light burden (خَفِيفُ المَؤُونَةِ) to him who consorts with him: or (assumed tropical:) sharp or quick in motions: and, as some say, خَفِيفُ المَشَاشِ means (assumed tropical:) one who does much service in journeying and at home: so accord. to Ibn-'Abbád. (TA.)

مَشُوشٌ ذ A napkin, (S, A,) or rough napkin, (TA,) or thing with which to wipe the hand. (S, K.) See 1, first signification.

مُشَاشَةٌ ذ : see مُشَاشٌ, in two places.

مِشْمِشٌ ذ , (S, K,) in the dial. of El-Basrah, (TA,) and ↓ مَشْمَشٌ, (AO, S, K,) in the dial. of El-Koofeh, (TA,) [The apricot; ] a certain thing that is eaten; (S;) a well-known fruit; (K;) called in Persian زَرْدٌ الُو [or زَرْدْ اآلُو]; (TA.) than which few things are found more productive of cold, or coolness, to the stomach, and befouling, and weakening: (K:) some, (K,) namely, the people of Syria, (TA,) apply this appellation to the اـِجَّاص [which with others signifies the plum; but with them, the pear ]: (K:) so says Lth: and some of the people of Syria pronounce it [مُشْمُسٌ,] with damm. (TA.)

مُشْتٌ ذ [The fist; the hand clinched: a Persian word arabicized]. (Mgh, in art. نشر.) [See an ex. voce تَوٌّ, where it has a redundant ن affixed to it.]

1 مَشَجَ ذ , aor. مَشُجَ , inf. n. مَشْجٌ, He mixed, or confused, syn. خَلَطَ, (K,) one thing with (بِ) another. (TK.) ― -b2- مَشَجَ بَيْنَهُمَا He made a confusion, or disturbance, (خَلَطَ,) between them two. (S.)

مِشْجٌ ذ and مَشَجٌ and مَشِجٌ: see مَشِيجٌ.

مَشِيجٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ مَشَجَ (K) and like كتف in its two dial. forms, (فِى لُغَتَيْهِ, K accord. to the TA,) i. e., ↓ مَشِجٌ and ↓ مِشْجٌ, or like كَتِفٌ in a dial. of little authority, (فِى لُغَيَّةٍ, CK and a MS. copy of the K.) [See مَشْيُوحَاآءُ, in art. شيج.] A thing mixed, or confused: (S, K:) or any two things mixed together: or any two colours mixed together: or what is a mixture of red and white: (TA:) pl. (of all the above forms, TA) أَمْشَاجٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- نُطْفَةٌ أَمْشَاجٌ, occurring in the Kur, lxxvi. 2, [ A drop consisting of ] mixtures; meaning the sperma genitale, because it is a mixture of various kinds: (ISk:) or [ a drop consisting of ] mixtures of sperma genitale and blood: (Zj:) or [ a drop consisting of ] the sperma genitale of the man mixed with that of the woman and with her blood. (S, K.) ― -b3- Also أَمْشَاجٌ What collect together in the navel. (K.)

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1 مَشَطَ الشَّعَرَ ذ , aor. مَشُطَ and مَشِطَ , (M, Msb,) inf. n. مَشْطٌ, (M, Msb, K,) He combed the hair; loosed and separated it with the comb; or combed and dressed it; syn. رَجَّلَهُ, (M, K, *) or سَرَّحَهُ: (Msb:) and ↓ مشّطهُ signifies he did so much. (Msb.) You say also مَشَطَتِ المَاشِطَةُ المَرْأَةَ, aor. مَشُطَ , inf. n. as above, [ The ماشطة combed, or combed and dressed, the woman's hair. ] (S, TA.) ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) دَائِمُ المَشْطِ is applied to (tropical:) A blandisher, or coaxer. (K, TA.) -A2- مَشْطٌ also signifies The act of mixing. (Fr, K.) You say, مَشَطَ بَيْنَ المَاآءِ وَاللَّبَنِ [ He mixed together the water and the milk ]. (TA.)

2 مَشَّطَ see 1.

8 امتشط ذ He combed, or combed and dressed, his hair: (Msb, K: *) [and in like manner,] you say of a woman, امتشطت. (S, TA.)

مَشْطٌ ذ : see what next follows.

مُشْطٌ ذ (S, Msb, K,) and ↓ مِشْطٌ, (Msb, K,) but the latter disapproved by IDrd, (TA,) and ↓ مَشْطٌ, (K,) and accord. to some with each of the three vowels to the ش, but this requires consideration [in other cases than those here following], (MF,) and ↓ مُشُطٌ (Ks, K) and ↓ مُشُطٌّ (AHeyth, K) and ↓ مَشِطٌ (K) and ↓ مِمْشَطٌ, (IB, K,) of all which the first is the most chaste, (TA,) A comb: pl. أَمْشَاطٌ (S, Msb, K,) and مِشَاطٌ. (IB, K.) ― -b2- مُشْطٌ مِنَ الحَدِيدِ A curry comb (مِحَسَّةٌ): so called by a poet because it has teeth like the مُشْط. (TA, art. نمص.) ― -b3- Also مُشْطٌ (tropical:) [ An upright loom; ] a loom with which one weaves, set upright: (K, TA:) pl. أَمْشَاطٌ. (TA.) You say ضَرَبَ النَّاسِجُ بِمِشْطِهِ and أَمْشَاطِهِ (tropical:) [app. meaning The weaver wove with his upright loom and his upright looms ]. (TA.) ― -b4- (tropical:) [The metatarsal bones; ] the سُلَامَيَات of the upper part of the foot; (S, K;) i. e. the slender bones spread upon the foot, exclusive of the toes; [also called, more particularly, or perhaps only called, مُشْطُ القَدَمِ or مُشْطُ الرِّجْلِ:] pl. أَمْشَاطٌ. (TA.) You say, اِنكَسَرَ مُشْطُ قَدَمِهِ (tropical:) [ His metatarsal bones broke ]. (TA.) And قَامُوا عَلَى أَمْشَاطِ أَرْجُلِهِمْ (tropical:) [ They stood upon their metatarsal bones ]. (TA.) ― -b5- مُشْطُ الكَتِفِ (assumed tropical:) The wide bone of the scapula: (S:) or a wide bone thereof: (K:) or the wide flesh thereof: (T, TA:) ― -b6- مُشْطٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) A certain mark made with a hot iron upon camels, (K,) in the form of a comb, (Sb, TA,) upon the body, and the neck, and the thigh. (Aboo-'Alee, TA.)

مِشْطٌ ذ : see مُشْطٌ.

مَشِطٌ ذ : see مُشْطٌ.

مُشُطٌ ذ : see مُشْطٌ.

مُشُطٌّ ذ : see مُشْطٌ.

مِشْطَةٌ ذ A mode, or manner, of combing, or of combing and dressing the hair. (S, * TA.)

لِمَّةٌ مَشِيطٌ ذ A lock of hair descending below the lobe of the ear combed, or combed and dressed; i. q. ↓ مَمْشُوطَةٌ. (S, TA.)

مُشَاطَةٌ ذ What falls, of hair, on the occasion of combing, or combing and dressing it. (S, * Msb, K. *)

مِشَاطَةٌ ذ The art, or occupation, of the مَاشِطَة. (K.)

مَشَّاطٌ ذ A comb-maker. (TA.) ― -b2- See also مَاشِطَةٌ, in two places.

مَاسِطَةٌ ذ [ A female comber, or comber and dresser, of the hair; ] (S;) a female who combs the hair, or combs and dresses it, well; (K;) and [in like manner] ↓ مَشَّاطَةٌ a girl who performs well the art of combing, or combing and dressing, the hair. (TA.) And one of the post-classical writers has used in his poetry the epithet ↓ مَشَّاطٌ [applied in like manner to a man or boy]. (TA.

أَمْشَطُ ذ : see مَمْشُوطٌ.

مِمْشَطٌ ذ : see مُشْطٌ.

مَمْشُوطٌ ذ : fem. with ة: see مَشِيطٌ. ― -b2- بَعِيرٌ مَمْشُوطٌ. (assumed tropical:) A camel marked with the mark termed مُشْط; (K;) as also ↓ أَمْشَطُ. (TA.)

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1 مَصَّهُ ذ , (A, Msb,) first pers. مَصِصْتُ, (S, M, Msb, K,) aor. يَمَصُّ; (S, Msb, K;) and first pers. مَصَصْتُ, aor. يَمُصُّ; (Msb, K;) but the former is the more chaste; (T, Msb, TA,) inf. n. مَصٌّ; (S, M, Msb;) [ He sucked it; or sucked it in; or sipped it, i. e.] he drank it (namely water, A, or a thing, S, M,) with a minute draught, (شُرْبًا رَقِيقًا: so in a copy of the A, and in the CK,) or with a gentle draught: (شُرْبًا رَفِيقًا: so in some copies of the K, and in the TA:) or he took it (namely a small quantity of a fluid) by drawing in the breath: and whether شَرِبَ may be used to denote this, as it is in the K, requires consideration: (MF:) or i. q. رَشَفَهُ: (S, K, art. رشف:) or i. q. تَرَشَّفَهُ: (M:) رَشْفٌ signifies the “ taking ” water “ with the lips; ” and is more than مَصٌّ: (Msb, art. رشف:) and ↓ امتصّهُ signifies the same; (S, M, A, Msb, K;) and so ↓ تمصّصهُ: (M, A:) or the last signifies he did so leisurely. (S, K.) You say, الرُّمَّانَ ↓ امتصّ, i. e. مَصَّهُ [ He sucked the pomegranate ]; and so of other things. (TA.) And مَصَّ الجَارِيَةَ He sucked the damsel's saliva from her mouth. (IAar, in L, art. مصد.) And مَصَّ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا (tropical:) He obtained a little of worldly goods. (TA.)

4 امصّهُ ذ [ He made him to suck: or he gave him to suck ]. (S, A, K.) You say أَمْصَصْتُهُ المَاآءَ (A) or الشَّىْءَ (S) [ I made him to suck, or I gave him to suck, the water, or the thing ]. ― -b2- (tropical:) He said to him يَا مَصَّانُ, q. v. (S, * A, TA.) You say, هُوَ يُمِصُّهُ وَيُبَظِّرُهُ. (K, art. بظر, which see in the present work.)

5 تَمَصَّ3َ see 1, in which two explanations of it are given.