مث: مث يمُث ويمثّ: وردت في ديوان الهذليين (136 البيت الثالث).
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الرجل مثا عرق ورئي على جلده مثل الدّهن والسقاء رشح والعظم سَالَ مَا فِيهِ من الودك وَيَده وأصابعه بالمنديل وَنَحْوه مسحها وشاربه أَصَابَهُ دسم فمسحه بِيَدِهِ وَبَقِي أثر الدسم يرى عَلَيْهِ وَالْجرْح نفى عَنهُ صديده وَغَشيتهُ
الرجل مثا عرق ورئي على جلده مثل الدّهن والسقاء رشح والعظم سَالَ مَا فِيهِ من الودك وَيَده وأصابعه بالمنديل وَنَحْوه مسحها وشاربه أَصَابَهُ دسم فمسحه بِيَدِهِ وَبَقِي أثر الدسم يرى عَلَيْهِ وَالْجرْح نفى عَنهُ صديده وَغَشيتهُ
مث: المَثُّ: مَسْحُكَ أصَابِعَكَ بمِنْدِيْلٍ ونَحْوِه من دَسَمٍ.
ويُقال للرَّجُلِ الأكُوْلِ: إنَّه لَيَمُتُّ كأنَّه زِقٌّ من سِمَنِه.
وهُوَ مَثٌّ من الرِّجَالِ: أي لَيِّنٌ. والمِثَاثُ: الدُّهْنُ الذي يُدْهَنُ به الجُرْحُ. والمِمَثَّةُ: تِلْكَ الصُّوْفَةُ.
ومَثَثْتُ الدَّمْعَ: مَسَحْته.
والمَثْمَثَةُ: الرَّشْحُ من زِقٍّ أو نَحْيٍ.
ومَثْمَثْتُه في الماءِ: غَطَطْتُه.
والمَثْمَثَةُ: التَّخْلِيْطُ. وأنْ لا يُجَادَ العَمَلُ.
وتَمَثْمَثَ عَنّي: أبْطَأَ.
والمَثْمَثَةُ: المَقَامُ والتَّلَبُّثُ.
مث
1 مَثَّ, [aor. ـِ It (a bone) distilled, or let flow, the only matter that was in it: (TA:) [like نَثَّ]. b2: مَثَّ, (S, K, aor. ـَ inf. n. مَثٌّ, TA,) and ↓ مَثْمَثَ, (K,) or, as in some copies of the K, ↓ ثَمَثْمَثَ, (TA,) It (a نِحْى, or butterskin,) exuded [its butter: as also نَثَّ]. (S, K.) You do not say of it نَضَحَ. (S.) b3: يَمِثُّ مَثَّ الحَمِيتِ He sweats like the butter-skin. (TA, from a trad.) b4: مَثَّ, aor. ـِ He (a man) sweated by reason of fatness. (TA.) b5: جَاءَ يَمِثُّ He came in a fat state, and looking as though he were anointed. (TA.) b6: مَثَّ قَيْحًا وَدَمًا, aor. ـُ or aor. ـِ accord. to different readings of a phrase in the story of Abrahah; [It exuded matter and blood]: in the former case, the verb is trans.; in the latter, intrans.; and قيحا, in the latter case, is regarded as a specificative. (Suh.) b7: مَثَّ شَارِبَهُ, (aor.مَثُ3َ, inf. n. مَثٌّ, ISd,) He put some grease upon his mustaches: (S, K:) or he greased his mustaches so that they glistened: (ISd:) or he wiped his mustaches with his hands, they having been greased, and left some remains, or traces, of grease visible upon them: (Az:) IDrd thinks مَثَّ and نَثَّ to be syn. (TA.) b8: مَثَّ الجُرْحَ, [aor. ـُ He removed the purulent matter from the wound: (Aboo-Turáb, K:) or he anointed the wound; as also نَثَّ. (Aboo-Turáb.) b9: مَثَّ, aor. ـُ (inf. n. مَثٌّ, TA,) He wiped his hand (or fingers, TA,) with a napkin, or with dry grass, (S,) or the like: (TA:) a dial. form of مَشَّ: (S:) or he wiped anything: (TA:) [as also نِثَّ.] R. Q. 1 مَثْمَثَ He saturated a wick with oil. (K.) b2: مَثْمَثَ, He immersed [a thing] in water. (K.) A2: مَثْمَثَ, (inf. n. مَثْمَثَةٌ, S, and مِثْمَاثٌ, S, K,) He mixed, or confounded. (S, K.) Yousay مثمث أَمْرَهُمْ He confounded their affair. (S.) b2: مَثْمَثَهُ He moved it, or shook it, about; (S, K;) like مَزْمَزَهُ: (As, S:) you say أَخَذَهُ فَمَثْمَثَهُ He took it, and moved it, or shook it, about, and went forwards and backwards with it. (S.) b3: A poet says, ثُمَّ اسْتَحَثَّ ذَرْعَهُ اسْتِحْثَاثَا نَكَفْتُ حَيْثُ مَثْمَثَ المِيْمَاثَا
i. e., I came upon his track: and [the case is, that] the viper makes its course confused: therefore the poet means, that he came upon (أَصَابَ) a confused track. (S, app. from As.) [It seems to me, that he is speaking of the track of a viper.] مِثْمَاثٌ, with kesreh, is the inf. n.; and مَثْمَاثٌ, with fet-hah, is the subst. (S, K.) [By the subst., is here meant the ideal subst., or abstract noun, (like زَلْزَالٌ and قَلْقَال, as dis-tinguished from زِلْزَالٌ and قِلْقَالٌ,) signifying Mixture, or confusion.]
A3: مَثْمَثُوا بِنَا, (K,) or مثمثوا بنا سَاعَةً, and ↓ تَمَثْمَثُوا, (TA,) i. q. لَثْلِثُوا. (K.) R. Q. 2 see 1 and R. Q. 1.
نَبْتٌ مَثَّاثٌ A moist plant. (TA.) مَثْمَاثٌ: see R. Q. 1.
