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مثث

Root entry · 20 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concept of something oozing, dripping, or seeping, particularly bodily fluids or fats. It also extends to meanings of wiping, smearing, and mixing, often with a connotation of lubrication or saturation.

Derived headwords

مَثَّ العظمُverb
  1. 1.
    to ooze marrow/fatclassical

    Said of bone, meaning the fat within it seeped out.

مَثَّ (النحي)verb
  1. 1.
    to ooze/seepclassical

    Said of a waterskin (النحي), meaning it leaked or seeped.

مَثٌّnoun
  1. 1.
    oozing, seepageclassical

    The act of oozing or seeping, as described for the waterskin or fat.

يَمِثُّverb
  1. 1.
    to ooze, to seepclassical

    Present tense of مثّ, referring to the seepage of fat or liquid.

تَمَثْمَثَverb
  1. 1.
    to ooze profuselyclassical

    An intensified form of oozing, often used to describe someone sweating from fatness.

مَثْمَثَverb
  1. 1.
    to saturate with oilclassical

    To saturate a wick with oil or fat.

  2. 2.
    to mix, to stirclassical

    To mix things up, or to stir something, like moving it back and forth.

  3. 3.
    to sink in waterclassical

    To submerge or sink, particularly in water.

مَثْمَثَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    mixing, stirringclassical

    The act of mixing or stirring.

  2. 2.
    sinkingclassical

    The act of sinking, as in water.

مَثْمَثَ الأَمْرَverb
  1. 1.
    to mix up affairsclassical

    To confuse or complicate matters.

مَثْمَثَ الشَّيْءَverb
  1. 1.
    to move back and forthclassical

    To move something back and forth, to agitate it.

مَثْمَثَverb
  1. 1.
    to sink in waterclassical

    To sink or submerge in water.

المَثْمَاثُnoun
  1. 1.
    mixed trackclassical

    A mixed or confused track, referring to the gait of a snake.

مَثْمَثَverb
  1. 1.
    to move slowlyclassical

    To move slowly or with difficulty, like a snake.

مَثْverb
  1. 1.
    to wipeboth

    To wipe something, like hands or a wound.

مَثَّ يَدَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to wipe handsboth

    To wipe one's hands, often with a cloth or similar material.

مَثَّهُverb
  1. 1.
    to smear with fatclassical

    Said of a mustache or beard, meaning it was touched by fat or grease.

مَثَّ الجُرْحَverb
  1. 1.
    to clear away debrisclassical

    To remove the loose or dead tissue from a wound.

  2. 2.
    to anoint a woundclassical

    To apply oil or ointment to a wound.

مَثَّverb
  1. 1.
    to sweat from fatnessclassical

    To sweat or exude fat, indicating corpulence.

مَثَّتْ جُلُودُهُنَّverb
  1. 1.
    their skins became greasyclassical

    Said of animals, meaning their skins became oily or greasy.

مَثَىverb
  1. 1.
    to be like 'mata'classical

    A variant pronunciation or spelling of 'mata' (when).

مَثَاثٌnoun
  1. 1.
    dewclassical

    Dew, specifically referring to a type of dew.

Parallel reading

سال ما فيه من الودك.
The fat within it seeped out.
وهو الزق، يمُثُّ مثا: رشح.
And it is the waterskin, it oozes, a seepage: it leaks.
يمث مث الحميت.
It oozes like the oozing of fat.
أي ترشح من السمن.
Meaning, you are sweating from fatness.
كان له منديل يمث به الماء إذا توضأ.
He had a cloth with which he would wipe away the water after performing ablution.
كل ما مسحته فقد مثثته مثا.
Anything you wipe, you have 'mathth-ed' it a 'mathth'.
نمث بأعراف الجياد أكفنا إذا نحن قمنا عن شواء مضهب.
Our hands wipe the manes of fine horses when we rise from roasted meat.
مث شاربه يمث مثا: أصابه الدسم فرأيت له وبيصا.
His mustache oozed, it 'mathth-ed' a 'mathth': fat touched it and you saw a sheen on it.
مث شاربه! يمثه مثا إذا أصابه دسم فمسحه بيديه، ويرى أثر الدسم عليه.
Wipe your mustache! He wipes it a 'mathth' if fat touches it and he wipes it with his hands, and the trace of fat is seen on it.
نفى عنه غثيثته.
He removed the loose matter from it.
إذا أدهنه.
When he anoints it.
كلما سقطت منه أنملة تبعتها مدة تمث قيحا ودما.
Whenever a fingertip fell from him, a period followed it oozing pus and blood.
مثمث الرجل، إذا أشبع الفتيلة بالدهن.
The man saturated the wick with oil.
مثمث أمرهم، إذا خلطه.
He mixed up their affairs.
أخذه فمثمثه ومزمزه، إذا حركه وأقبل به وأدبر.
He took it and moved it back and forth and agitated it, meaning he moved it and brought it forward and backward.
ثم استحث ذرعه استحثاثا نكفت حيث مثمث المثماثا.
Then it urged its pace with urgency, seeking where the mixed track was.
روحوا بنا قليلا.
Give us some respite.
مث الرجل يمث: عرق من سمن.
The man sweats, he 'yamuthth': he sweats from fatness.
تقول كليب حين مثت جلودها: وأخصب من مروتها كل جانب.
Kulaib says when their skins became greasy: And it became fertile on every side from its richness.
نبت مثاث: ند.
The plant 'mathath' means dew.