Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

مَرَثَ, (aor. ـُ {يَمْرُثُ}, inf. n. مَرْثٌ, Ṣ,) He steeped dates in water, and mashed them (Ṣ, Ḳ) with the hand; (Ṣ;) syn. مَرَسَ: (Ṣ, Ḳ;) sometimes مَرَذَ is also used in this sense. (Ṣ.)

مَرَثَ, (aor. ـُ {يَمْرُثُ}, inf. n. مَرْثٌ, TA,) He made a thing soft, (Ḳ,) so that it became of such a subsistence that it might be supped, and then supped it. (TA.)

مَرَثَ, (aor. ـُ {يَمْرُثُ} and ـِ {يَمْرِثُ}, inf. n. مَرْثٌ, TA,) He steeped, soaked, or macerated, a thing in water: (Ḳ:) he soaked bread in water; as also مَرَذَ. (Sh, Aṣ.) مَرَثَ He steeped medicine, &c. in water until it became altered. (A.)

مَرَثَ, [aor. ـُ {يَمْرُثُ},] He (a child, Ṣ,) mumbled, or bit softly, his finger: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) he (a child) bit with his gums: he (a child) bit and sucked a necklace, or string of beads, such as is called سَخَابٌ. (TA.)

مَرَثَ, aor. ـُ {يَمْرُثُ} and ـِ {يَمْرِثُ}, (inf. n. مَرْثٌ, TA,) He [a child] sucked the kind of shells called cowries. (Ḳ.)

He sucked. (IAạr.)

He (a child) sucked his mother's breast. (IAạr.)

مَرِثَ, aor. ـَ {يَمْرَثُ}, (inf. n. مَرَثٌ, IAạr,) He was mild and forbearing, or clement; and patient in bearing altercation. (Ḳ, TA.)

مَرَثَ, [aor. ـُ {يَمْرُثُ},] He beat, or struck, or smote, a man: (Ḳ:) or, accord. to AʼObeyd, مرَثَ بِهِ الأَرْضَ, andمرّث↓, he threw him, or flung him, upon the ground: or, accord. to Fr, the verb is مَرَنَ. (TA.)

مَرَثَ السَّخْلَةَ, aor. ـُ {يَمْرُثُ}, (L,) andمرّثها↓, He imparted to the lamb, or kid, a foul smell, of sweat, or grease, or the like, so that its mother would not take to it: (Ḳ:) he rendered it foul and greasy with his hand, so that its mother would not suckle it: (Ibn-Jo'eyl El-Kelbee:) he befouled it by stroking it with hands defiled by the smell of flesh-meat or fish, so that its mother would not take to it. (El-Mufaddal Ed-Ḍabbee.)

Also, مَرَثَ He defiled water, by putting into it his hands foul with flesh-meat, or grease, or the like. (TA, from a trad.)

مرّث, inf. n. تَمْرِيثٌ, He crumbled, or broke into small pieces, with his fingers. (Ḳ.)

See 1 in two places.

مَرْثَةٌ A single suck, by a child, of its mother's breast. (IAạr.)

مِمْرَثٌ Patient in bearing altercation: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) mild and forbearing, or clement: as alsoمَرِثٌ↓: (IAạr, Ḳ:) pl. of the former, مَمَارِثُ. (Ṣ.)

أَرْضٌ مُمَرَّثَةٌ A land watered by a weak rain, (Ḳ,) and so rendered soft, and dissolved. (TA.)