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موخ

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily discusses the concept of swaggering or walking with a proud gait. It also touches upon the subsiding or cooling of intense emotions like anger or the heat of a flame, with a note on potential letter substitution.

Derived headwords

مَاخَverb
  1. 1.
    to swaggerclassical

    To walk with a proud, ostentatious gait, characterized by swaggering.

  2. 2.
    to subsideclassical

    Said of anger or the heat of a flame when it calms down or cools.

يَمِيخُverb
  1. 1.
    to swaggerclassical

    To walk with a proud, ostentatious gait, characterized by swaggering.

مَيْخَاnoun
  1. 1.
    swaggeringclassical

    The act of walking with a proud, ostentatious gait; swaggering.

تَمَيَّخَverb
  1. 1.
    to swaggerclassical

    To walk with a proud, ostentatious gait, characterized by swaggering.

تَمَيُّخًاnoun
  1. 1.
    swaggeringclassical

    The act of walking with a proud, ostentatious gait; swaggering.

المَاخُnoun
  1. 1.
    subsidence of flameclassical

    The subsiding or slackening of a flame's intensity.

Parallel reading

ماخ يميخ ميخا وتميخ تميخا، وهو التبختر في الأمر
He swaggered, he swaggered with swaggering and with swaggering, and it is the strutting in the matter.
إذا تبختر
if he swaggered
المَوخُ سُكُونُ اللَّهَبِ
The subsiding is the stillness of the flame.
ماخَ الغَضَبُ وغَيْرُهُ إِذَا سَكَنَ
Anger and other things subsided when they calmed down.
بَاخَ حَرُّ اللَّهَبِ ومَاخَ إِذَا سَكَنَ وَفَتَرَ حَرُّهُ
The heat of the flame cooled and subsided when it calmed and its heat lessened.