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مشج

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of mixing, blending, or intermingling. It is applied to colors, substances like bodily fluids, and even abstract qualities like temperaments and the composition of materials.

Derived headwords

المَشَجُnoun
  1. 1.
    mixture of colorsboth

    A state where two or more colors are mixed together.

  2. 2.
    mixture of substancesboth

    The intermingling of different substances, particularly bodily fluids.

  3. 3.
    temperamentsclassical

    The inherent dispositions or temperaments of a person, derived from the mixture of bodily humors.

المَشَجُnoun
  1. 1.
    mixtureboth

    A general term for anything that is mixed or blended.

المَشِيجُnoun
  1. 1.
    mixed colorboth

    A color that is a blend of two or more colors, often specifically a mix of redness and whiteness.

  2. 2.
    intermingled substanceboth

    Something that is mixed, especially referring to the intermingling of male and female seminal fluids.

الأَمْشَاجُnoun
  1. 1.
    mixturesboth

    Plural of 'mashaj', referring to various kinds of mixtures, especially the components of human creation (semen, blood, etc.).

  2. 2.
    mixed humorsclassical

    The four humors of the body (yellow bile, black bile, blood, and semen) when mixed.

مَشَجَverb
  1. 1.
    to mixboth

    To blend or intermingle things together.

مَشَجَ بَيْنَهُمَاverb
  1. 1.
    to mix between themclassical

    To cause a mixture or intermingling between two entities.

مَمْشُوجٌadjective
  1. 1.
    mixedboth

    Describing something that has been mixed or blended with something else.

Parallel reading

كل لونين اختلطا
Every two colors that mixed.
هو ما اختلط من حمرة وبياض
It is what is mixed of redness and whiteness.
هو كل شيئين مختلطين
It is every two things that are mixed.
والجمع أمشاج مثل يتيم وأيتام
And the plural is amshaj, like yateem and aytaam.
سيط به مشيج
A mixture was poured into it.
مشجت بينهما مشجا: خلطت
I mixed between them a mixing: I blended.
والشيء مشيج
And the thing is mixed.
والمشيج اختلاط ماء الرجل والمرأة
And al-mashij is the mixing of the man's water and the woman's.
إنا خلقنا الإنسان من نطفة أمشاج نبتليه
Indeed, We created man from a drop of mixed fluid, to test him.
قال الفراء: الأمشاج هي الأخلاط: ماء الرجل وماء المرأة والدم والعلقة
Al-Farra' said: Al-amshaj are the mixtures: the man's water, the woman's water, the blood, and the clot.
ويقال للشيء من هذا: خلط مشيج كقولك خليط وممشوج
And it is said of a thing from this: a mixed mixture, like your saying 'khalit' and 'mamshuj'.
مشجت بدم، وذلك الدم دم الحيض
It was mixed with blood, and that blood is menstrual blood.
الأمشاج الأخلاط؛ يريد الأخلاط النطفة لأنها ممتزجة من أنواع
Al-amshaj are the mixtures; he means the mixtures of the sperm because it is blended from types.
طوت أحشاء مرتجة لوقت ... على مشج، سلالته مهين
She carried in her womb, ready for a time... upon a mixture, his lineage is lowly.
فهن يقذفن من الأمشاج، ... مثل بزول اليمنة الحجاج
So they cast forth from the mixtures, ... like the young camels of Yemen, the pilgrims.
أمْشَاج أخلاط من مني ودم، ثم ينقل من حال إلى حال
Amshaj are mixtures of semen and blood, then it is transferred from one state to another.
نطفة أمشاج لماء الرجل يختلط بماء المرأة ودمها
A mixture of sperm for the man's fluid which mixes with the woman's fluid and her blood.
ثم يكون مشيجا أربعين ليلة
Then it becomes a mixture for forty nights.
المشيج: المختلط من كل شيء مخلوط
Al-mashij: the mixed from everything that is mixed.
ومحط الأمشاج من مسارب الأصلاب
And the place where the mixtures are gathered from the loins' passages.
يريد المني الذي يتولد منه الجنين
He means the semen from which the fetus is generated.
الأمشاج: أخلاط الكيموسات الأربع، وهي: المرار الأحمر والمرار الأسود والدم والمني
Al-amshaj: the mixtures of the four humors, which are: the red bile, the black bile, the blood, and the semen.
أراد بالمشج اختلاط الدم بالنطفة، هذا أصله
He meant by al-mashj the mixing of blood with the sperm, this is its origin.
إذا استعجل مشج خلقه من نطفة
When He hastens His creation from a drop of sperm.
وأمشاج البدن طبائعه، واحدها مشج ومشج ومشج
And amshaj of the body are its temperaments, its singular is mashj, mashj, mashj.
وعليه أمشاج غزول أي داخلة بعضها في بعض؛ يعني البرود فيها ألوان الغزول
And on it are amshaj of threads, meaning interwoven with each other; meaning the cloths have colors of threads in them.
أمشاج وأوشاج غزول داخل بعضها في بعض
Amshaj and awshaj are threads interwoven with each other.
كأن النصل والفوقين منها، ... خلال الريش، سيط به مشيج
As if the arrowhead and the two nocks of it, ... among the feathers, a mixture was poured into it.
كأن المتن والشرجين منه، ... خلاف النصل، سيط به مشيج
As if the shaft and the two edges of the nock of it, ... apart from the arrowhead, a mixture was poured into it.
خلال النصل، سيط به المشيج
Among the arrowhead, the mixture was poured into it.