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مقه

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes a specific shade of color, a whitish-blue or pale hue. It is also used to describe something that is unpleasantly pale or white, like plaster, and can be metaphorically applied to a mirage.

Derived headwords

المقهnoun
  1. 1.
    whitish-blue colorboth

    A color that is a mixture of white and blue, a pale or light hue.

  2. 2.
    palenessclassical

    Extreme paleness, often to an unpleasant degree, likened to the whiteness of plaster.

مقهاءadjective
  1. 1.
    unpleasantly paleclassical

    Describing a woman who is unpleasantly pale, whose whiteness resembles that of plaster.

أمقهadjective
  1. 1.
    mirageclassical

    Referring to a mirage that appears pale or whitish, shimmering in the heat.

Parallel reading

المقه: بياض في زرقة.
Al-maquh: whiteness in blueness.
وامرأة مقهاء.
And a woman who is unpleasantly pale.
هي القبيحة البياض يشبه بياضها بياض الجص.
She is the one with unpleasant paleness, whose whiteness resembles the whiteness of plaster.
وسراب أمقه.
And a pale mirage.
إذا خفقت بأمقه صحصحان
When the shimmering heat of the open desert makes it appear pale,
رءوس القوم والتزموا (1) الرحالا
The heads of the people and they clung to their saddles.
ومنهم من يقول: المقه مثل المره.
And some of them say: Al-maquh is like Al-marrah (bitterness/intensity).