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مسن

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to striking, particularly with a whip, and by extension, to being bold or impudent. It also encompasses the idea of extracting or pulling something out, and has derived terms for specific items like clothing and names.

Derived headwords

مَسَنَverb
  1. 1.
    to strike with a whipboth

    To beat someone with a whip.

  2. 2.
    to be impudentclassical

    To be bold, audacious, or impudent, similar to being 'majūn'.

  3. 3.
    to extractclassical

    To pull or extract something from another thing.

  4. 4.
    to strike until fallingclassical

    To strike something repeatedly until it falls or is dislodged.

مسنه بالسوط يمسنه مسنا — ضربه
He struck him with the whip, striking him, a striking.
مَسْنًاnoun
  1. 1.
    striking with a whipboth

    The act of striking with a whip, serving as the verbal noun of the verb 'masana'.

مسنه بالسوط يمسنه مسنا — ضربه
He struck him with the whip, striking him, a striking.
المَسَنّnoun
  1. 1.
    impudenceclassical

    A state of being bold, audacious, or impudent.

  2. 2.
    striking with a whipboth

    The act of striking with a whip.

المسن المجون
The impudent, the bold.
مُسِنّadjective
  1. 1.
    impudentclassical

    Characterized by boldness or impudence.

يقال: مسن فلان ومجن بمعنى واحد
It is said: So-and-so is impudent and bold, meaning the same thing.
سياط مَسَنnoun
  1. 1.
    whipsclassical

    A type of whip, possibly referring to whips used for striking.

وسياط مسن، بالسين والشين، منه
And whips of masan, with sin and shin, from it.
المَشْنnoun
  1. 1.
    whipsclassical

    A type of whip, corrected from 'masan' by Al-Layth.

وفي أخاديد السياط المشن
And in the grooves of the whips, the mashan.
مَسَنَ الشيءverb
  1. 1.
    to extract somethingclassical

    To pull or extract something from another thing.

  2. 2.
    to strike until fallingclassical

    To strike something until it falls or is dislodged.

مسن الشيء من الشيء استله
He extracted the thing from the thing, he pulled it out.
المَيْسَنَانِيّnoun
  1. 1.
    type of garmentclassical

    A kind of garment or clothing.

والميسناني: ضرب من الثياب
And the maysanani: a type of garment.
مَيْسُونname
  1. 1.
    name of a womanboth

    A proper name for a woman.

  2. 2.
    name of a mareclassical

    The name of a specific mare (female horse).

وميسون: اسم إمرأة
And Maysun: the name of a woman.

Parallel reading

المسن المجون.
The impudent, the bold.
يقال: مسن فلان ومجن بمعنى واحد.
It is said: So-and-so is impudent and bold, meaning the same thing.
والمسن: الضرب بالسوط.
And the masan: striking with a whip.
مسنه بالسوط يمسنه مسنا: ضربه.
He struck him with the whip, striking him, a striking.
وسياط مسن، بالسين والشين، منه
And whips of masan, with sin and shin, from it
وفي أخاديد السياط المشن
And in the grooves of the whips, the mashan.
مسن الشيء من الشيء استله
He extracted the thing from the thing, he pulled it out.
وأيضا ضربه حتى يسقط.
And also striking it until it falls.
والميسناني: ضرب من الثياب
And the maysanani: a type of garment.
ويصن الوجوه في الميسناني
And it protects the faces in the maysanani
وميسون: اسم إمرأة
And Maysun: the name of a woman.
وهي ميسون بنت بحدل الكلابية
And she is Maysun bint Baddal al-Kilabiyyah.
والميسون: فرس ظهير بن رافع
And al-Maysun: the mare of Dhahir bin Rafi'.