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Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concept of medicine, specifically laxatives or purgatives. It also extends to the act of taking or administering such medicine, and metaphorically to seeking or expecting a remedy.

Derived headwords

المشوnoun
  1. 1.
    Laxative medicineboth

    A medicine that causes purging or evacuation of the bowels.

استمشىverb
  1. 1.
    To take a laxativeboth

    To take medicine that causes purging.

أمشاهverb
  1. 1.
    To administer a laxativeboth

    To give someone medicine that causes purging.

المشاnoun
  1. 1.
    Wild celeryclassical

    A type of wild plant, possibly wild celery, or a plant resembling it.

أمشيverb
  1. 1.
    To seek remedyclassical

    When a person's remedy or medicine is sought or expected.

Parallel reading

المشو، بالفتح وكعدو وغني وسماء: الدواء المسهل
Al-mashw, with fatha, and like 'aduww, ghaniyy, and sama': the purgative medicine.
واستمشى، وأمشاه الدواء.
And he took a purgative, and the medicine purged him.
والمشا: الجزر، أو نبت يشبهه.
And al-masha: wild celery, or a plant resembling it.
وأمشي الرجل: ارتجي دواؤه.
And when a man's remedy is sought, it means his cure is being hoped for.