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Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to actions of gentle touching, stroking, or rubbing, often with a sense of care or refinement. It also extends to meanings of being lean or emaciated, and in a figurative sense, to being heedless or facing severe difficulties.

Derived headwords

مَسَىverb
  1. 1.
    to strokeboth

    To stroke a female camel or horse gently.

  2. 2.
    to purifyclassical

    To purify the womb, referring to a female animal.

  3. 3.
    to make leanclassical

    To make livestock lean or emaciated.

  4. 4.
    to go gentlyboth

    To travel or move with gentleness and ease.

  5. 5.
    to rubboth

    To rub or stroke something with one's hand.

مَسْيnoun
  1. 1.
    strokingboth

    Any act of stroking or rubbing.

مَاسٍadjective
  1. 1.
    heedlessclassical

    A man who pays no attention to anyone's advice.

امْتَسَىverb
  1. 1.
    to be thirstyclassical

    To be thirsty.

تَمَاسَىverb
  1. 1.
    to be cut offclassical

    To be cut off or severed.

تَمَاسٍnoun
  1. 1.
    hardshipsclassical

    Severe difficulties or calamities, used without a singular form.

مُسَيْنَىname
  1. 1.
    a place nameclassical

    A place name, specifically a valley in the region of Constantinople.

Parallel reading

مَسَى الناقة والفرس
He stroked the female camel and the horse.
نَقَى رَحِمُهَا
Her womb was purified.
الحَرُّ المالَ
The heat made the livestock lean.
السَّيْرَ: رَفَقَ فِيهِ
The journey: he was gentle in it.
الشَّيْءَ: مَسَحَهُ بِيَدِهِ
The thing: he rubbed it with his hand.
كُلُّ اسْتِلَالٍ مَسْيٌ
Every extraction is a stroking.
رَجُلٌ مَاسٍ لَا يَلْتَفِتُ إِلَى مَوْعِظَةِ أَحَدٍ
A heedless man who pays no attention to anyone's advice.
امْتَسَى: عَطِشَ
He was thirsty.
تَمَاسَى: تَقَطَّعَ
It was cut off.
التَّمَاسِي: الدَّوَاهِي
Calamities: severe difficulties.
مُسَيْنَى: د فِي بَرِّ قُسْطَنْطِينِيَّةَ
Musayna: a valley in the plains of Constantinople.