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مشن

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to striking, cutting, or tearing, often with a whip or sword. It also extends to concepts of taking or extracting something, and metaphorically to sharp or abrasive speech and women. Additionally, it denotes a type of date and a specific type of wound.

Derived headwords

المشنnoun
  1. 1.
    type of whip strikeclassical

    A kind of striking with a whip.

مشنهverb
  1. 1.
    to strike with a whipclassical

    To strike with a whip.

مشناnoun
  1. 1.
    like mu'allimboth

    like mu'allim

امْتَشَنَverb
  1. 1.
    to snatch, to tear offboth

    To snatch something away or tear it off.

  2. 2.
    to draw (a sword)classical

    To draw a sword.

مشنةnoun
  1. 1.
    wound with shallow depthclassical

    A wound that has a wide opening but is not deep, which may or may not draw blood or break the skin.

مشنتverb
  1. 1.
    to give milk reluctantlyclassical

    A she-camel giving milk reluctantly.

تمشيناverb
  1. 1.
    giving milk reluctantlyclassical

    The act of a she-camel giving milk reluctantly.

المشانnoun
  1. 1.
    a type of dateboth

    a type of date

امتشنverb
  1. 1.
    take what you canclassical

    Take from it whatever you can find or obtain.

Parallel reading

المشن: ضرب من الضرب بالسوط.
Al-mashn: a type of striking with a whip.
يقال: مشنه مشنا.
It is said: he struck him with a whip, a striking.
وفي أخاديد السياط المشن
And in the grooves of the whips, the striking ones.
وامتشنت الشئ: اقتطعته واختلسته.
And I snatched the thing: I cut it off and stole it.
وامتشنت السيف: استللته.
And I drew the sword: I pulled it out.
مرت لي غرارة فمشنتنى، وأصابتني مشنة
A sudden blow passed by me and struck me, and a mashnah (wound) struck me
وهو الشئ له سعة ولا غور له
It is something that has width but no depth
منه ما بض منه دم ومنه ما لم يجرح الجلد.
Some of it caused blood to ooze, and some of it did not wound the skin.
يقال: مشنه بالسيف، إذا ضربه فقشر الجلد.
It is said: he struck him with a sword, if he struck him and peeled the skin.
ومشنت الناقة تمشينا: درت كارهة.
And the she-camel gave milk reluctantly, giving milk reluctantly: she gave milk unwillingly.
والمشان: نوع من الرطب
And al-mishān: a type of date.
وفى المثل: " بعلة الورشان تأكل رطب المشان " بالاضافة.
And in the proverb: 'The owner of al-warshān eats the dates of al-mishān' by addition.
ويقال: امتشن منه ما مشن لك، أي خذ منه ما وجدت.
And it is said: take from it whatever you can, meaning take from it what you find.
والمشان من النساء: السليطة المشاتمة.
And al-mishān from women: the sharp-tongued, argumentative one.