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صطك

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to a specific type of aromatic resin or incense, known as mastic. It also encompasses terms for things mixed with or resembling this substance, and potentially place names associated with it.

Derived headwords

المصطكىnoun
  1. 1.
    Mastic (resin)both

    A resin obtained from the mastic tree, used in perfumes, incense, and historically in medicine and chewing gum. It is considered a foreign loanword in Arabic.

دواء ممصطكnoun
  1. 1.
    Medicine mixed with masticclassical

    A medicinal preparation that has been compounded or mixed with mastic resin.

مصطكاءname
  1. 1.
    Mastaka' (place name)classical

    A place name, mentioned by Al-Faraa', possibly related to the substance mastic.

Parallel reading

المصطكى: من العلوك؛ رومي وهو دخيل في كلام العرب
Al-Mustaka: from the aromatics; it is Roman and a loanword in the speech of the Arabs.
فشام فيها مثل محراث الغضا، ... تقذف عيناه بمثل المصطكى
He exhales in it like the ploughshare of the thorny tree, ... his eyes cast forth like mastic.
ودواء ممصطك: خلط بالمصطكى
And a medicine mixed with mastic: mixed with mastic.
ابن الأنباري: مصطكاء، بالمد، عن الفراء، وثرمداء: موضع، قال: وهي على مثال فعللاء؛ وقد قصره الأغلب ضرورة «2». في قوله: تقذف عيناه بعلك المصطكا
Ibn al-Anbari: Mastaka', with the long vowel, from Al-Faraa', and Tharmadaa': a place. He said: and it is on the pattern of Fal'alaa; and the majority shortened it out of necessity. In his saying: his eyes cast forth like mastic.