Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

مَائِطٌ ذ and هَائِطٌ are explained by IAar as signifying Coming and going. (TA.)

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alphabetical letter م ذ مَ for the interrogative مَا immediately following a prep.: see مَا in the S, K; and اـِلَى last sentence. ― -b2- مِ for مِنْ: see an ex., from a poet, voce رُبَّ. ― -b3- مُ ا@للّٰهِ &c.: see أَيْمُنُ اللّٰهِ. ― -b4- مّ for أُمّ: see the latter.

مَا ذ when following كُلّ or اـِنَّ or أَيْنَ or أَىّ, if having the signification of الَّذِى, is written separately. (El-Hareeree, in De Sacy's Anthol. Gram. Ar., p. 67 of the Ar. text.) ― -b2- مَا added to certain adverbial nouns is not merely redundant, but gives to them a conditional and general signification; as in أَيْنَمَا Wherever; and حَيْثُمَا Wherever, and whenever; &c.: see Kur, ii. 143, 145, &c.: and see De Sacy's Gram., i. 537 and 538. ― -b3- مَا While; as in مَا دُمْتُ حَيًّا: and as much as; see Kur, lxiv. 16. ― -b4- بِمَا Because بِمَا كَانُوا يَفْسُقُونَ Because they did transgress; or for that they did transgress. (Kur.) ― -b5- اـِنَّكَ مَا وَخَيْرًا, for مَعَ خَيْرٍ. See خَيْرٌ. ― -b6- مَا is also added to a noun to denote the littleness of that which is signified by the noun; as in أَرَبٌ مَّا Some little want. (IAth in TA, art. ارب.) ― -b7- مَا in أَمَّا and اـِمَّا (of which latter اـِمَّا لَا is an instance) I have mentioned in arts. أَمَّا and اـِمَّا. ― -b8- بَالِغًا مَا بَلَغَ: see بَلَغَ. ― -b9- مَا أَنْتَ [ What art thou? ] means what are thy qualities, or attributes? (Har, p. 155.) مَا رَبُّ العَالَمِينَ, in the Kur, xxvi. 22, means أَىٌّ شَىْءٍ هُوَ. (Jel.) See also an ex. voce فَىّ. ― -b10- مَا لَكَ signifies أَىُّ شَىْءٍ ثَبَتَ لَكَ (IbrD) and may be rendered What aileth thee? ― -b11- شَىْءٌ مَّا Some particular thing: something. (See اـِيهِ.) Also, Any particular thing? (IbrD.) See an ex. cited voce صَبَاحٌ. ― -b12- فَتًى مَّا فُلَانٌ An excellent youth is such a one. (IbrD.) See Kull, p. 336. See also Bd, middle p. 42. ― -b13- مَا is sometimes put for مَا دَامَ, مَا دَامُوا, and the like; i. e. As long as: see an ex. voce كَاظَّ, and التُّرْكُ, and جَلَّ. ― -b14- الشَّكْلُ اـِلَى الطُّولِ مَا هُوَ The form inclines somewhat to length; agreeably with a rendering voce عُقْرٌ: see De Sacy's Gr., sec. ed., i. 543 and 539: see also شَىْءٌ مَّا above: in the Kur xxxviii. 23, ما is redundant, (Bd,) denoting vagueness and wonder, (Ksh, Bd,) or a corroborative of fewness: (Jel:) it means somewhat whether great or little in degree or importance. -A2- مَا, the negative particle, followed by a pret., often requires the latter to be rendered in English by the preterperfect: ex. مَا رَأَيْتُهُ مُذْ يَوْمَان I have not seen him for two days. See De Sacy's Anthol. Gram. Ar., p. 253.

مَأْقٌ ذ and مُؤْقٌ and مَأْقٍ: see مَأوًى.

مَأَقَةٌ ذ A sobbing; i. e. an affection like what is termed فُوَاق, as though it were breath heaved from the chest, on an occasion of weeping, and of being choked with weeping. (S, K.)

1 مَأَنَهُمْ ذ He sustained them; bore the burden of, or undertook, their maintenance; he maintained them. (S, K, arts. مأن and مون.) ― -b2- مَأَنَ القَوْمَ and ↓ مَأَّنَهُمْ He maintained, or sustained, the people, or party. (M.)

2 مَأََّ see 1.

مَأْنَةٌ ذ of the belly: see جَأْبَةٌ. ― -b2- المَأْنَتَانِ of the hump of a camel: see قَحَدَةٌ.

مُؤْنَةٌ ذ i. q. قُوْتٌ [ Food, &c.]; (M;) a dial. var. of ↓ مَؤُونَةٌ (q. v.); as also مُونَةٌ: pl. مُؤَنٌ. (Msb.)

مَئِنَّةٌ ذ : see art. ان, where will be found the explanations of this word given in the S and K in art. مأن.

مَؤونَةٌ ذ A weight, or burden. (Mgh, Msb.) See مِثْقَالٌ. ― -b2- Trouble, molestation, or embarrassment; as also ↓ مُؤْنَةٌ: pl. of the former مَؤُونَاتٌ; and of the latter مُؤَنٌ. (MA.) ― -b3- The requisite means of subsistence. (KL.) ― -b4- مَؤُونَةُ الجِمَاعِ: see زَافِنَةٌ: it seems to mean the pudendum muliebre considered as the means of جِمَاع.

مَاهِيَّةٌ ذ [The quiddity, or essence, or substance, of a thing;] that whereby a thing is what it is. (KT.) See also حَقِيقَةٌ, and جَوْهَرٌ, and ذَاتِيَّةٌ, and مَعْنًى.

مِئِينٌ ذ : see سِنِينٌ, voce سَنَةٌ, in art. سنه.

1 مَأَى ذ (like مَاءَ) It (a cat) mewed. (TA, voce مَاءَ, art. موأ.)

1 مَتَعَ النَّهَارُ ذ The day became advanced, the sun being high, (S, K,) before the declining of the sun from the meridian. (K.) . مَتَّعَهُ He (God) made him to live. (Bd in xi. 3.) ― -b2- See مَلّا. ― -b3- مَتَّعَهَا He gave her a gift after divorce. (K.) And مَتَّهَا بِكَذَا He gave her (a divorced wife) such a thing. (Msb.)

5 تَمَتَّعَ بِهِ ذ and ↓ اِسْتَمْتَعَ and ↓ اِمْتَتَعَ are syn., signifying اِنْتَفَعَ بِهِ زَمَانًا طَوِيلًا; (Ham, p. 165 ;) [ He benefited, or profited by it; had the benefit, use, or enjoyment, of it; he enjoyed it; accord. to the above authority, for a long time; but this restriction is not always meant.] You say. اِسْتَمْتَعْتُ بِا@صْطِبَاحِ خَمْرٍ [ I enjoyed the drinking a morning-draught of wine ]: and بِالاـِصْغَاآءِ اـِلَى أَغَانِى جَارِيَةٍ [ the listening to the songs of a girl ]. (Mo'allakát, p. 169.) ― -b2- تَمَتَّعَ He became provided with مَتَاع, or utensils and furniture for the house, or tent. (TA, voce تَبَتَّتَ, q. v.) ― -b3- تَمَتَّعَ i. q. عَاشَ. (Bd, Jel, xi. 68.) ― -b4- تَمَتَّعَ بِهِ generally signifies He enjoyed it: (MA:) so in many cases in the Kur, &c.

8 اـِمْتَتَعَ see 5.

10 اِسْتَمْتَعَ بِكَذَا ذ , and ↓ تَمَتَّعَ, He benefited or profited by such a thing. (Msb.) ― -b2- See 5. ― -b3- مُسْتَمْتُعٌ: see مَلْبَسٌ.

مُتْعَةٌ ذ Enjoyment; a subst. in the sense of تَمَتُّعٌ; (S, Msb, K;) syn. نَعْمَةٌ. (Jel, xlvi. 26.) See an ex., in a verse of Lebeed, voce فَرْطٌ. ― -b2- مُتْعَةٌ A gift to a divorced wife. (Msb, K.) See مَتَاعٌ. ― -b3- متعة الضُّحَى [i. e. مُتْعَة?] i. q. أَوَّلُهَا. (TA voce فِيقَة, in art. فوق.)

مَتَاعٌ ذ Anything useful or advantageous; as goods: such as the utensils and furniture of a house or tent, or household-goods: any utensils, or apparatus: chattels: a commodity, and commodities; (Mgh, &c.;) generally best rendered goods, chattels, household-goods or chattels, or utensils and furniture. ― -b2- المَتَاعُ [signifies (tropical:) الفَرْجُ;] a woman's pudendum: (TA:) [see مُتَوَهِّجَةٌ, in art. وهج: and] the penis. (Mgh.) ― -b3- مَتَاعٌ also applies to Food, the necessaries of life: see two exs. voce حَفَفٌ. ― -b4- مَتَاعٌ for a divorced wife, A provision of necessaries, such as food and clothing and household-utensils or furniture: see عَرْفٌ, and Bd in ii. 242: i. q. تَمْتِيعٌ. (Bd in ii. 237.) ― -b5- مَتَاعٌ i. q. مَا يُتَمَتَّعُ بِهِ, and الاِسْتِمْتَاعُ; (Jel in iv. 79;) generally best rendered Enjoyment, in the Kur iv. 79 and ix. 38 and similar cases. See مُتْعَةٌ.

2 مَتَّنَهُ ذ , inf. n. تَمُتِينٌ, He made it, or rendered it, strong, stout, form, or hard. (TA.) ― -b2- مَتَّنَ He seasoned a skin with rob, or inspissated juice (رُبّ). (K.)

مَتْنُ الظَّهْرِ ذ is The erector spinæ muscle, which consists of the sacro-lumbalis and longissimus dorsi and spinalis dorsi. The مَتْنٌ is The back: (M, Msb:) or, as also ↓ مَتْنَةٌ, (M,) or مَتْنَانِ, (T,) two portions of firmly-bound flesh between which is the back-bone, [or that confine the back-bone, ] rendered firm by being tied (مَعْلُوبَتَانِ) with, or by, عَقَب [or sinews, ] (T, M,) or the مَتْنَتَانِ are the two sides of the back. (M.) ― -b2- مَتْنَا الظَهْرِ The two portions of flesh and sinew next the back-bone, on each side. (S.) ― -b3- مَتْنٌ [The broad side, or the middle of the broad side, of the blade, of a sword;] the part in the middle of which is the [ ridge called ] عَمُود, (En-Nadr, in L, voce عَمُودٌ,) or the part in which is the [ ridge called ] شُطْبَة, (K, voce سَفْسَقَةٌ,) and شَطِيبَة, and عَمُود: (K, voce عَمُودٌ:) or the ridge [ itself ] (عَيْر) rising in the middle of a sword. (T.) ― -b4- مَتْنٌ The hard and outer or apparent part of anything: pl. مُتُونٌ and مِتَانٌ. (M.) ― -b5- مَتْنٌ The middle of a bow, and of a spear. (Munjid of Kr.) ― -b6- مَتْنُ أُذُنِ الفَرَسِ: see عَيْرٌ. ― -b7- مَتْنٌ The part between two poles of a بَيْت, or tent. (AZ in TA, art. ربع.) ― -b8- مَتْنٌ Elevated, and level, or plain, ground: (M:) or hard and elevated ground. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b9- مَتْنُ الفَرَسِ One of the four bright stars in Pegasus, that ( a ) at the extremity of the neck: see الفَرْغُ. ― -b10- مَتْنٌ i. q. حَدِيثٌ and خَبَرٌ and أَثَرٌ, A tradition of Mohammad, or of another, namely a companion of Mohammad, &c. (IbrD.)

مَتْنَةٌ ذ : see مَتْنٌ.

مَتِينٌ ذ Strong; stout; firm; hard. (S, K, Msb.) [ Well seasoned. Possessing any quality in a strong degree. ]

أَمْتَنُ حَلَاوَةً ذ , i. q. أَشَدُّ حَلَاوَةً, More sweet. (TA, voce حَمْتٌ.)

تِمْتَانٌ ذ : see تَمْتِينٌ.

تَمْتِينٌ ذ (a subst., properly speaking, like تَلْبِيبٌ, q. v.) and ↓ تِمْتَانٌ The threads, or strings, of tents. (K.)

مَتَى ذ signifies When? and when used to denote a condition: see أَنَّى and أَيْنَ. ― -b2- حَتَّى مَتَى Until when? how long? and also until the time when. See Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 382.

1 مَثَلَ ذ aor. مَثُلَ , inf. n. مُثُولٌ; (S, M, K, &c.;) and مَثُلَ; (M, K;) He stood erect; (S, M, K, &c.;) بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ before him. (S, &c.) ― -b2- مَثَلَ بِهِ, inf. n. مُثْلَةٌ, He mutilated him; castrated him; namely, a sheep or goat. (TA in art. دجن, from a trad.)

2 مَثَّلَ ذ : see a verse of Kutheiyir in art. رود, conj. 4. ― -b2- مَثَّلَهُ: see شَبَّهَهُ.

3 مَاثَلَهُ ذ i. q. شَابَهَهُ. (TA.)

4 أَمْثَلَهُ ذ He set it up: from مَثَلَ “ he stood erect. ” ― -b2- He set up a butt or mark: see an ex. voce غَرَضٌ.

5 تَمَثَّلَ بِكَذَا ذ [ He affected to be like, or imitated, such a thing; ] i. q. تَشَبَّهَ بِهِ. (TA, art. شبه.) ― -b2- تَمَثَّلَ البَيْتَ and [more commonly] بِالبَيْتِ He used, or applied, the verse as a proverb, or proverbially. (MA.) ― -b3- See تَشَبَّهَ.

6 تَمَاثَلَ ذ He became nearly in a sound, or healthy, state; or near to convalescence: (K:) or he became more like the sound, or healthy, than the unsound, or unhealthy, who is suffering from a chronic and pervading disease; (TA;) or so تماثل لِلْبُرْءِ. (M.) Said also of a wound: (T, S in art. دمل:) and of a disease; like أَشْكَلَ. (TA, art. شكل.) ― -b2- تَمَاثَلَا i. q. تَشَابَهَا. (M, K in art. سوى.)

8 اِمْتَثَلَ أَمْرَهُ ذ He followed his command, order, bidding, or injunction; did like as he commanded, ordered, &c.; (Mgh;) he obeyed his command, order, &c. (Msb.)

مِثْلٌ ذ A like; a similar person or thing; match; fellow; an analogue. (K, &c.) See نِدٌّ and voce بَدَلٌ. ― -b2- A likeness, resemblance, or semblance; see شَبَهٌ. ― -b3- An equivalent; a requital. ― -b4- مِثْلَ, used as a denotative of state, means Like. Ex. مَرَّ مِثْلَ البَرْقِ He passed like the lightning. See an ex. in the Kur li. 23; and another, from Sakhr-el-Gheí, voce فَرْضٌ.

مَثَلٌ ذ i. q. صِفَةٌ [as meaning A description, condition, state, case, &c.]; (S, K, &c.;) or وَصْفٌ [meaning the same]: (Msb:) or this is a mistake: (Mbr, AAF, TA:) or it may be a tropical signification: (MF, TA:) for in the language of the Arabs it means a description by way of comparison: (AAF, TA:) you say مثل زيد مثل فلان [ The description of Zeyd, by way of comparison, or the condition, &c., is that of such a one ]: it is from المِثاَلُ and الحَذْوُ: (Mbr, TA:) it is metaphorically applied to a condition, state, or case, that is important, strange, or wonderful. (Ksh, Bd in ii. 16.) The phrase here given is more literally, and better, rendered, The similitude of Zeyd is the similitude, or is that, of such a one; for a similitude is a description by way of comparison. ― -b2- You say also, جَعَلَهُ مَثَلًا لِكَذَا [ He made it (an expression or the like) to be descriptive, by way of comparison, of such a thing ]. (TA passim.) [And مَثَلٌ لِكَذَا means An expression denoting, by way of similitude, such a thing. ] ― -b3- عَلَى المَثَلِ As indicative of resemblance to something. ― -b4- See بَدَلٌ.

مِثَالٌ ذ Quality, made, manner, fashion, and form; (Msb;) a model according to which another thing is made or proportioned; a pattern, (مِقْدَارٌ) by which a thing is measured, proportioned, or cut out: (T:) an example of a class of words, of a rule, &c. ― -b2- مِنْ غَيْرِ سَبْقِ مِثاَلٍ [ Without there having been any precedent ]. (Msb in art. قرح, &c.) ― -b3- [ A bed: ] بَناَتُ المِثَالِ The daughters of the bed; meaning women. (T in art. بنى.)

جَوْزُ مَاثِلٍ ذ : see جَوْزٌ.

تَمَاثِيلُ ذ , in the following hemistich of Ibn-Ahmar, تَمَاثِيلُ قِرْطَاسٍ عَلَى هَبْهَبِيَّةٍ signifies كُتُبٌ يَكْتُبُونَهَا. (L, in TA, voce هَبْهَبِىٌّ, as signifying a “ light, or active, ” camel.)

1 مَجَرَ ذ , app. an imitative sequent to فَجَرَ. See دَعِرَ.

1 مَجَلَتْ يَدُهُ ذ His hand became blistered, or vesicated, by much work. (Mgh.)

مَجْمَجَةٌ ذ : see جَمْجَمَ and حَجْحَجَ.

1 مَجَنَ ذ He cared not for what he did (S. Mgh, K *) nor for what was said to him. (Mgh, K. *) The epithet is مَاجِنٌ. (S, Mgh, K.)

عُقْبَةٌ مَجُونٌ ذ [ A stage of a journey, or a march or journey from one halting-place to another, ] that is far, or distant, or long. (ISk in TA, voce بَاسِطَةٌ: but it is not quite clear in my copy of the TA whether it be مَجُونٌ or هَجُونٌ.)

مَجَّانٌ ذ The gift of a thing without price. (IF, Msb.) ― -b2- فَعَلْتُهُ مَجَّانًا I did it without compensation. (Msb.) هٰذَا الشَّىْءُ لَهُ مَجَّانًا This thing is for him without an equivalent. (El-Farábee, Msb.)

مَاجِنٌ ذ : see 1.

1 مَجْنَقُوا مجنقوا : see art. جنق.

مَحْتٌ ذ and مَحْتَةٌ: see أَبْتٌ.