خلج

1 خَلَجَ, (S, A, L, Msb, K,) aor. ـِ (S, K,) or ـُ (Msb,) inf. n. خَلْجٌ; and ↓ اختلج; (S, L, Msb, TA;) and ↓ تخلّج; (L, TA;) He drew, dragged, pulled, strained, stretched, extended, lengthened, or protracted, (S, L, K,) a thing: (S, * L, TA:) and he pulled out or up, displaced, removed, or took away, (S, A, Msb, K,) a thing, (S, * A, Msb, TA,) and a person. (A.) Thus in the saying, أَخَذَ بِيَدِهِ فَخَلَجَهُ بَيْنِ صَحْبِهِ [He took his hand, and pulled him out from amid his companions]: and خَلَجَ رُمْحَهُ مِنَ المَطْعُونِ [He pulled out his spear from the person pierced]: and رُمْحًا مَرْكُوزًا ↓ اختلج [He pulled out a spear stuck in the ground]. (A, TA.) [See also an ex. in a verse cited voce مَطْرَبٌ.] El-'Ajjáj says, فَإِنْ يَكُنْ هٰذَا الزَّمَانُ خَلَجَا فَقَدْ لَبِسْنَا عَيْشَهُ المُخَرْفَجَا

meaning (assumed tropical:) And if this time has taken away, and exchanged for another, a state [in which we were, we have long enjoyed its plentiful life]. (S.) b2: [Hence,] خُلِجَ, said of a stallion-camel, He was taken away from the females that had passed seven or eight months since the period when they last brought forth, before he had become too languid to cover any longer. (Lth, A, L.) And خَلَجَ, aor. ـِ (assumed tropical:) He weaned his offspring, or the offspring of his she-camel: (K:) (tropical:) he separated a young camel from the mother. (A.) And خَلَجَتْ وَلَدَهَا (tropical:) She (a mother) weaned her offspring: (M, A:) so accord. to Lh, who does not particularize any kind [of animal]. (M.) And خَلَجَ نَاقَةً (assumed tropical:) He weaned the offspring of a she-camel. (S.) and مِنْ بَيْنِهِمْ ↓ اُخْتُلِجَ (tropical:) [He was taken away from among them]: said of the dead. (A, TA.) b3: خَلَجَنِى كَذَا, (S, K, *) aor. ـِ (K,) (assumed tropical:) Such a thing occupied me; busied me; or diverted me, by employing my attention, from other things. (S, K, * TA.) You say, خَلَجَتْهُ أُمُورُ الدُّنْيَا (assumed tropical:) [The affairs of the world occupied him, &c.]. (S, TA.) and ↓ خَلَجَتْهُ الخَوَالِجُ (assumed tropical:) Busying [or distracting] affairs busied [or distracted] him. (Lth.) And a poet says, وَ أَبِيتُ تَخْلِجُنِى الهُمُومُ كَأَنَّنِى

دَلْوُ السُّقَاةِ تُمَدُّ بِالأَشْطَانِ [And I pass the night,] anxieties busying me [as though I were the bucket of the waterers, drawn from the well by the ropes]. (IAar.) b4: تَخْلِجُ السَّيْرَ, said of a fleet she-camel, (L, K,) (assumed tropical:) She goes, journeys, or travels, quickly. (L.) And خَلَجَ فِى مِشْيَتِهِ: see 5. b5: خَلَجَ, aor. ـِ also signifies (assumed tropical:) He put (a thing, TA) in motion, or into a state of commotion. (A, K, TA.) You say, خَلَجَ حَاجِبَيْهِ, and عَيْنَيْهِ, (tropical:) He put in motion, or into a state of commotion, his eyebrows, and his eyes. (A.) b6: And خَلَجَ, aor. ـِ (L, K) and خَلُجَ, inf. n. خَلْجٌ, (L, TA,) (assumed tropical:) He made a sign [by a motion] (L, K, TA) بِعَيْنِهِ with his eye, and بِحَاجِبَيْهِ with his eyebrows. (L, TA.) And خَلَجَهُ بِحَاجِبِهِ, aor. and inf. n. as above, (assumed tropical:) He made a sign to him with his eyebrow. (L.) And خَلَجَهُ بِعَيْنِهِ (assumed tropical:) He made a sign to him with his eye; winked to him. (S, L.) And خَلَجَتْنِى بِعَيْنِهَا (tropical:) She made a sign to me with her eye, or winked to me, to indicate a time or place of appointment, or something that she desired. (A, TA.) b7: See also 8, in two places.3 خالجهُ, (A, Msb, TA,) inf. n. مُخَالَجَةٌ, (Mgh,) He contended with him, (A, Mgh, * Msb, TA,) [as though drawing, or pulling, him, (see 6,)] namely, a man. (TA.) You say, خالجهُ الشَّىْءَ He contended with him for the thing. (A.) And خَالَجَنِى القِرَآءَةَ (assumed tropical:) He vied with me in reciting the words of prayer, (Mgh, * TA,) uttering aloud what I uttered aloud, so that he took from my tongue what I was reciting, and I did not [or could not] continue to do so. (TA, from a trad.) And خالج قَلْبِى أَمْرٌ (tropical:) A thing, or an affair, troubled my heart with contending thoughts. (K, TA.) And مَا يُخَالِجُنِى فِى ذٰلِكَ الأَمْرِ شَكٌّ (tropical:) [Doubt does not contend with me respecting that affair], meaning I doubt not respecting that affair. (Sh, TA.) 4 اخلج حَاجِبَيْهِ عَنْ عَيْنَيْهِ (assumed tropical:) [He drew up his eyebrows from his eyes]. (Lth.) A2: اخلج is also quasi-pass. of خَلَجَ, though this is extr. with respect to analogy, like ابشر [q. v.] &c.; (TA;) signifying It was, or became, drawn, dragged, pulled, &c. (L, TA.) 5 تخلّج: see 1, first sentence. b2: [Hence,] تخلّج فِى مِشْيَتِهِ He (a paralytic, S, K, or an insane, or a possessed, man, A) walked in a loose manner, as though disjointed, and inclined from side to side, (S, A, K, TA,) as one dragging a thing: (A, TA:) it is similar to تخلّع: (TA:) and signifies also he (an insane, or a possessed, man) inclined from side to side in his gait, (Mgh, * TA,) as though he were drawing along, now to the right and now to the left; and so فى ↓ خَلَجَ مشيته, aor. ـِ inf. n. خَلَجَانٌ. (TA.) b3: See also 8, in two places. b4: And see 6.

A2: [It branched off, like a خَلِيج, from a large river: occurring in this sense in art. دجل of the T and TA; where دُجَيْل is described as نَهْرٌ صَغِيرٌ يَتَخَلَّجُ مِنْ دِجْلَةَ.]6 تَخَالَجَتْهُ الهُمُومُ (tropical:) Anxieties contended with him, one on one side and another on another side, as though each were drawing him to it. (A, L.) And تخالج فِى صَدْرِى شَىْءٌ (S, A, K) and ↓ اختلج (TA) (tropical:) A thing was, or became, unsettled in my bosom, or mind; (TA;) meaning I was in doubt [respecting a thing]; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ تخلّج and تحلّج, (Lth, * As, TA in art. حلج,) or these two mean nearly the same. (Sh, TA in that art; in which see 5, in three places.) [See also 8.]8 اختلج, as a trans. v.: see 1, in three places.

A2: Also (tropical:) It (a thing) was, or became, in a state of commotion, or agitation; it quivered, quaked, or throbbed; (Sh, TA;) and so ↓ تخلّج (Sh, K) [and ↓ خَلَجَ, as will be seen from what follows]. You say اختلج حَاجِبَاهُ (assumed tropical:) His eyebrows quivered, or were in a state of commotion. (Lth.) and اختلجت عَيْنُهُ; (S, K;) and ↓ تخلّجت; (TA;) and ↓ خَلَجَتْ, aor. ـِ and خَلُجَ, inf. n. خُلُوجٌ (S, K) and خَلَجَانٌ; (Sh;) (assumed tropical:) His eye quivered, throbbed, or was in a state of commotion; (Sh, L;) i. q. طَارَتْ, (S, K,) i. e., throbbed. (PS, TK.) and اختلج العُضْوُ (assumed tropical:) The member (i. e. any member, L) quivered, &c. (Mgh, L, Msb.) b2: (assumed tropical:) He trembled, quivered, or quaked. (TA.) And اختلج بِوَجْهِهِ (assumed tropical:) He moved about his lips and his chin, mocking and imitating a person talking. (TA, from a trad.) b3: اختلج فِى صَدْرِى هَمٌّ (tropical:) [Anxious thought fluttered in my bosom]. (TA.) See also 6.

خِلْجٌ: see خَلُوجٌ.

خُلُجٌ (assumed tropical:) Persons trembling in the bodies. (K.) b2: (assumed tropical:) Persons tired, or fatigued. (IAar.) b3: (assumed tropical:) A people whose lineage, or origin, is doubted, (T, K,) so that different persons dispute, one with another, respecting it. (T.) See also مُخْتَلَجٌ.

خَلَنْجٌ: see art. خلنج.

خَلُوجٌ Clouds (سَحَاب) separated, or scattered, (K, TA,) as though drawn away from the mass; of the dial. of Hudheyl: (TA:) or clouds, (سحاب, K,) and a cloud, (سَحَابَة, TA,) abounding with water, (K, TA,) and lightening vehemently. (TA.) b2: And hence, (assumed tropical:) A she-camel abounding with milk, and yearning towards her young one. (T, TA.) b3: Also (assumed tropical:) A she-camel, (S, K,) or other female, (TA,) whose young one has been taken from her (S, K) by slaughter or death, and that yearns towards it. (TA,) and whose milk in consequence has become little in quantity. (S, K.) Accord. to some, (L,) (assumed tropical:) A she-camel that goes, journeys, or travels, quickly, by reason of her [natural, not forced,] fleetness. (L, K. *) Pl. ↓ خِلْجٌ [or, rather, this is a quasi-pl. n., like as لِبْنٌ is of لَبُونٌ,] and خِلَاجٌ. (L.) خَلِيجٌ A canal, or cut, from a large river; syn. شَرْمٌ مِنْ بَحْرٍ: (S, A, K:) what is cut off from the main mass of water; so called because it is drawn from it: (ISd, TA:) a river cut off from a larger river, extending to a place where use is made of it: a river on one side of a larger river: (TA:) and [simply] a river: (S, A, K:) and خَلِيجَا نَهْرٍ is said to signify the two sides of a river: (S:) or the two wings thereof: and some explain the sing. (خليج) as meaning a branch from a valley, conveying its water to another place: (TA:) pl. خُلْجَانٌ (A, TA) and خُلُجٌ. (TA.) خَالِجٌ [act. part. n. of 1]. b2: It is said in a trad. of 'Alee, respecting life (الحَيَاة), إِنَّ اللّٰهَ جَعَلَ المَوْتَ خَالِجًا لِأَشْطَانِهَا, meaning (assumed tropical:) Verily God has made death to be quick in seizing its cords; i. e. the cords of life. (L.) b3: [Hence,] الخَالِجُ is applied to (assumed tropical:) Death; because it draws away mankind. (TA.) جَالِجَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A busying, or distracting, affair: pl. خَوَالِجُ. Hence,] خَلَجَتْهُ الخَوَالِجُ: see 1.

مَخَلَّجٌ (assumed tropical:) Fat, so that his flesh quivers. (TA.) مُخْتَلَجٌ (tropical:) A man whose name has been transferred from the register of his own people to that of another people, to whom his lineage, or origin, is consequently ascribed, (A, TA,) and respecting whose lineage, or origin, people differ and dispute: (TA:) accord. to some, i. q. ↓ خُلُجٌ as meaning a people whose reputed origin is transferred so as to be ascribed to another people: and the former signifies also a man whose lineage, or origin, is disputed; as though he were drawn, and pulled away, from his people. (TA.) b2: (assumed tropical:) One whose flesh and strength are taken away. (TA.) b3: (assumed tropical:) A face (Lth, ISd, K) lean, (Lth, ISd,) having little flesh. (K.)

مرث

1 مَرَثَ, (aor.

مَرُثَ, inf. n. مَرْثٌ, S,) He steeped dates in water, and mashed them (S, K) with the hand; (S;) syn. مَرَسَ: (S, K;) sometimes مَرَذَ is also used in this sense. (S.) b2: مَرَثَ, (aor.

مَرُثَ, inf. n. مَرْثٌ, TA,) He made a thing soft, (K,) so that it became of such a subsistence that it might be supped, and then supped it. (TA.) b3: مَرَثَ, (aor.

مَرُثَ, and مَرِثَ, inf. n. مَرْثٌ, TA,) He steeped, soaked, or macerated, a thing in water: (K:) he soaked bread in water; as also مَرَذَ. (Sh, As.) مَرَثَ He steeped medicine &c. in water until it became altered. (A.) b4: مَرَثَ, [aor. ـُ He (a child, S,) mumbled, or bit softly, his finger: (S, K:) 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.) b5: مَرَثَ, aor. ـُ and مَرِثَ, (inf. n. مَرْثٌ, TA,) He [a child] sucked the kind of shells called cowries. (K.) b6: He sucked. (IAar.) b7: He (a child) sucked his mother's breast. (IAar.) b8: مَرِثَ, aor. ـَ (inf. n. مَرَثٌ, (IAar,) He was mild and forbearing, or clement; and patient in bearing altercation. (K, TA.) A2: مَرَثَ, [aor. ـُ He beat, or struck, or smote, a man: (K:) or, accord. to A'Obeyd, مرَثَ بِهِ الأَرْضَ, and ↓ مرّث, he threw him, or flung him, upon the ground: or, accord. to Fr, the verb is مَرَنَ. (TA.) A3: مَرَثَ السَّخْلَةَ, aor. ـُ (L,) and ↓ مرّثها, 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: (K:) 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-Dabbee.) b2: Also, مَرَثَ He defiled water, by putting into it his hands foul with flesh-meat, or grease, or the like. (TA, from a trad.) 2 مرّث, inf. n. تَمْرِيثٌ, He crumbled, or broke into small pieces, with his fingers. (K.) A2: See 1 in two places.

مَرِثٌ: see مِمْرَثٌ.

مَرْثَةٌ A single suck, by a child, of its mother's breast. (IAar.) مِمْرَثٌ Patient in bearing altercation: (S, K:) mild and forbearing, or clement: as also ↓ مَرِثٌ: (IAar, K:) pl. of the former, مَمَارِثُ. (S.) أَرْضٌ مُمَرَّثَةٌ A land watered by a weak rain, (K,) and so rendered soft, and dissolved. (TA.)

مزج

1 مَزَجَ, (S, K,) aor. ـُ (L Msb,) [not مَزَجَ, as in the lexicons of Golius and Freytag,] inf. n. مَزْجٌ, (K, &c.,) He mixed, mingled, incorporated, or blended, (S, K,) a thing with (بِ) water; (Msb;) or beverage, or wine, (شَرَاب,) with something else. (S.) b2: مَزَجَ (tropical:) He exasperated, or irritated. (K.) مَزَجْتُهُ عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ I enraged him, and exasperated him, or irritated him, against his companion. (A.) 2 مزّج, inf. n. تَمْزِيجٌ, He gave. (K.) Ex.

مزّج السَّائِلَ He gave the beggar something. (ISh.) A2: مزّج, inf. n. تَمْزِيجٌ, It (an ear of corn, K, and a grape, TA,) became changed in colour from green to yellow. (T, K.) 3 مازجهُ, inf. n. مُمَازَجَةٌ, It mixed, mingled, commingled, intermixed, intermingled, or became incorporated or blended, with it; as some does with water. (TA.) A2: مازجهُ, (tropical:) He contended with him, or disputed with him, for glory, or honour, or glorious or honourable qualities, and the like. (K.) 8 تمازخا and ↓ امتزجا They two mixed, or mingled, or became mixed or mingled, each with the other. (TA.) 8 امتزج It was, or became, mixed with (بِ) another thing. (TA.) See 6.

شَرَابٌ مَزْجٌ i. q. ↓ مَمْزُوجٌ, Mixed mine, or beverage. (TA.) b2: See مِزْجٌ.

مِزْجُ شَىْءٍ, and ↓ مِزَاجُهُ, What is mixed, or mingled, with a thing; its admixture. (TA.) b2: الشَّرَابِ ↓ مِزَاجُ What is mixed with mine, or a beverage. (S, K.) الخَمْرِ كَافُورٌ ↓ مِزَاجُ [see Kur, lxxvi., 5,] The odour, not the taste, of the wine is [like] camphor. (TA.) b3: البَدَنِ ↓ مِزَاجُ [The constitution, or temperament, of the body;] the aggregate natural constituents (طَبَائِعُ) with which the body is composed; (S, K;) i. e. the four humours of the body; namely, black bile [السَّوْدَآءُ], yellow bile [الصَّفْرَآءُ], (المِرَّتَانِ), phlegm (البَلْغَمُ), and blood (الدَّمُ). (TA) Pl. أَمْزِجَةٌ. (Msb.) Yousay, ↓ هُوَ صَحِيحُ المِزَاجِ, and فَاسِدُهُ, He is of sound, and of unsound, constitution, or temperament: meaning the humours of the body. and أَمْزِجَةُ النِّسَآءِ مُخْتَلِفَةٌ The constitutions, or temperaments, of women are discordant, or various. (A.) b4: مِزْجٌ (As, K, &c.) and ↓ مَزْجٌ, (Az, S, &c.,) or the latter is erroneous, or a word of weak authority, (K,) Honey: (S, K:) or honey in the comb; syn. شَهْدٌ: (T:) so called because every sweet beverage is mixed with it. (AHn.) b5: Also, Water with which wine is mixed. (TA.) b6: مِزْجٌ The bitter almond; as also ↓ مَزِيجٌ: see لَوْزٌ (K:) but IDrd doubts of its correctness; and it is said to be correctly مُنْج [which is Persian]. (TA.) مِزَاجٌ: see مِزْجٌ.

مَوْزَجٌ A boot, (K,) worn by women: (A:) an arabicized word, (S, K,) from the Persian مُوزَهْ: (S:) pl. مَوَازِجَةٌ (because it is a foreign word, S) and مَوَازِجُ. (S, K.) مَزِيجٌ: see مِزْجٌ.

رَجُلٌ مَزَّاجٌ, and ↓ مُمَزِّجٌ; A man who continues not of one disposition, or temper, but varies in disposition, or temper: or a liar, who confounds, or confuses, things. (IAar.) مَمْزُوجٌ: see مَزْجٌ.

مُمَزِّجٌ: see مَزَّاجٌ.

طَبْعُ عُطَارِدَ مُتَمَزِّجٌ [The nature of the planet Mercury is various]. (A.)

مسح

1 مَسَحَ شَيْئًا, aor. ـَ inf. n. مَسْحٌ; and ↓ مسّحهُ, inf. n تَمْسِيحٌ; He wiped a thing that was wet or dirty, with his hand, or passed his hand over it to remove the wet or dirt that was upon it: (L:) مَسْحٌ and تَمْسِيحٌ and ↓ تَمَسُّحٌ signifying the passing the hand over a thing that is flowing [with water or the like], or dirtied, soiled, or polluted, to remove the fluid or dirt, or soil or pollution; (L, K;) as when one wipes his head with his hand to remove water; and his forehead, to remove sweat. (L.) [It often signifies He stroked a thing with his hand; as, for instance, the Black Stone of the Kaabeh; see below.] b2: مَسَحَ رَأْسَهُ مِنَ المَآءِ; and جَبِينَهُ الرَّشَحِ; He wiped his head with his hand to remove the water that was upon it; and his forehead to remove the sweat. (L.) b3: مَسَحَ بِرَأْسِهِ (S) He wiped with his hand, or passed his hand closely over, his head, or a part thereof, without making any water to flow upon it: so in the Kur, v. 8; where it is said, فَاغْسِلُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَأَيْدِيَكُمْ إِلَى الْمَرَافِقِ وَامْسَحُوا بِرُؤُوسِكُمْ وَأَرْجُلَكُمْ

إِلَى الْكَعْبَيْنِ: here أَرْجُلَكُمْ is in the acc. case as an adjunct to ايديكم; [i.e., as a third objective complement to the verb اغسلوا; not as an adjunct to رؤوسكم;] but some read أَرْجُلِكُمْ, putting it in the gen. case because of its proximity to رؤوسكم; (Jel;) [in like manner as خَرِبٍ is put in the gen. case in the phrase هٰذَا جُحْرُ ضَبٍّ خَرِبٍ, an ex. given by many of the grammarians, showing that this is allowable in prose,] notwithstanding that it is said, by Aboo-Is-hák the grammarian, that the putting a noun in the gen. case because of its proximity to a preceding noun in that case is not allowable except in poetry, when necessity requires it: (L:) the head, which is wiped, is mentioned between the arms and the feet, which are washed, to show the order which is to be observed in the purification. (Jel.) But مَسَحَ signifies both he wiped with the hand, and also he washed: so says IAth: (L:) and Az and IKt say the like: (Msb:) you say مَسَحْتُ يَدَىَّ بالمَآءِ, meaning I washed my hands with water. (Az, Msb.) b4: مَسَحَ شَيْئًا بِالمَآءِ He wiped a thing with his hand wetted with water; passed his hand, wetted with water, over a thing. (Msb.) b5: مَسَحَ البَيْت He compassed the House [of God, i.e. the Kaabeh: because he who does so passes his hand over the corner in which is the Black Stone]. (L.) b6: مَسَحَ اللّٰهُ عَنْكَ مَا بِكَ May God remove that which is in thee! (L;) or, wash and cleanse thee from thy sins! (TA, art. مصح.) A prayer for a sick person. (L, from a trad.) b7: مَسَحَهُ He anointed him or it with oil. (A.) b8: مُسِحَ بِالكَرَمِ, inf. n. مَسْحٌ, (tropical:) He was characterized by somewhat, or by some sign or mark, of nobility. (L.) [See مَسْحَةٌ.] b9: مَسَحَ, inf. n. مَسْحٌ, He combed and dressed hair; syn. مَشَطَ. (K.) b10: مَسْحُ اللُّحِىَ [The stroking of the beards] was a sign of reconciliation. (S, O, in art. عق: see عَقُ بِالسَّهْمِ.) b11: مَسَحَهُ, or مَسَحَهُ بِالمَعْرُوفِ, i. e. بالمعروف مِنَ القَوْلِ, (L,) inf. n. مَسْحٌ; (L, K;) and ↓ مسّحهُ, (L,) inf. n. تَمْسِيحٌ; (L, K;) He spoke to him good words, deceiving, or beguiling, him therein, (L, K,) and giving him nothing. (L.) b12: فُلَانٌ يَمْسَحُ رَأْسَ زَيْدٍ (tropical:) Such a one beguiles, or deceives, Zeyd. (A.) [See also 3.] b13: مَسَحَ, inf. n. مَسْحٌ and تَمْسَاحٌ He lied; uttered what was false. (K.) b14: مَسَحَ فِى الأَرْضِ, inf. n. مُسُوحٌ, He set forth journeying through the land, or earth: (A'Obeyd, K: *) as also مَصَحَ. (TA.) b15: مَسَحَهُمْ (tropical:) He passed lightly by them, or brushed by them, without remaining by them. (L.) b16: مَسِحَ, [aor. ـَ inf. n. مَسَحٌ, The inner sides of his (a man's, S) thighs rubbed together, (S, L, K,) so as to become sore and chapped: (L:) or he had the inner side of his knee inflamed by the roughness of his garment. (L, K.) b17: مَسَحَ الإِبِلَ, inf. n. مَسْحٌ (tropical:) He made the camels to journey all the day long: and he made the backs of the camels to be wounded by the saddles, and emaciated them; as also ↓ مَسَّحَهَا, inf. n. تَمْسِيحٌ: (K:) and in the latter sense you say مَسَحَ النَّاقَةَ, and ↓ مسّحها. (TA.) b18: مَسَحَتِ الإِبِلُ يَوْمَهَا (tropical:) The camels journeyed all the day. (S.) مَسَحَتِ الإِبِلُ الأَرْضَ يَوْمَهَا دَأْبًا (tropical:) The camels journeyed all the day laboriously. (TA.) A2: مَسَحَ, (S,) inf. n. مَسْحٌ (K) and مِسَاحَةٌ, (S, K,) or the latter is a simple subst., (Msb,) (tropical:) He measured land. (S, K.) A3: مَسَحَ, inf. n. مَسْحٌ, (tropical:) He cut, or severed: and he struck, or smote: (K:) he severed the neck, and the arm. (TA.) مَسَحَ عُنُقَهُ and بِعُنُقِهِن, aor. ـَ inf. n. مَسْحٌ, He smote his neck: or, as some say, severed it, or cut it through. Agreeably with both these significations مَسْحًا is rendered in the Kur, xxxviii. 32: some say that what is here meant is the wiping with the hand wetted with water: accord. to IAth, Solomon is here said to have smitten the necks and hock-tendons of the horses. (L.) [See art. طفق.] مَسَحَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ He smote him with the sword: (L:) and he cut him with the sword: (S, L:) or مَسَحَهُ signifies he struck him gently with a staff, or stick, and with a sword. (TA in art. دهن.) b2: See 8. b3: Also مَسَحَهُمْ He slew them. (L.) A4: مَسَحَهُ, (inf. n. مَسْحٌ, K,) He (God) created him blessed, (AHeyth, K,) and goodly: (AHeyth:) b2: and, contr., created him accursed, (AHeyth, K,) and foul, or ugly. (AHeyth.) A5: مَسَحَ, (S,) inf. n. مَسْحٌ, (K,) (tropical:) Inivit feminam. (S, K.) 2 مَسَّحَ see 1, in four places.3 ماسحهُ (tropical:) He took him by the hand; applied the palm of his hand to the palm of the other's hand. (TA.) b2: (tropical:) He made a compact, or covenant, with him. (TA.) b3: مَاسَحَا (tropical:) They used blandishing, soothing, or wheedling, words, one to the other, deceiving thereby; (K;) their hearts not being sincere. (TA.) You say غَضِبَ فَمَاسَحْتُهُ حَتَّى لَانَ (tropical:) He was angry, and I coaxed, or wheedled, him until he became gentle, or mild. (TA.) [See also 1.]5 تمسّح بِالمَآءِ He washed himself with water. (A, Z.) b2: تمسّح (tropical:) He performed the ablution called الوُضُوْء. (IAth.) b3: تمسّح بِالأَرْضِ (S, L) (tropical:) He performed the action termed التَّيَمُّم: or he made his forehead to touch the ground in prostration, without anything intervening. (L.) b4: فُلَانٌ يُتَمَسَّحُ بِثَوْبِهِ (tropical:) Such a one has his garment passed over men's persons as a means of their advancing themselves in the favour of God: (L:) [i.e., he is a holy man, from the touch of whose garment a blessing is derived: see St. Matthew's Gospel, ix., 20 and 21]. فُلَانٌ يُتَمَسَّحُ بِهِ (tropical:) Such a one is a person by means of whom one looks for a blessing (بُتَبَرَّكُ بِهِ,) by reason of his excellence, (K,) and his devotion; (TA;) as though one advanced himself in the favour of God by approaching him. (L.) [See also an ex. voce رُكْنٌ.] b5: فُلَانٌ يَتَمَسَّحُ (tropical:) Such a one has nothing with him, or in his possession; as though he wiped his arms with his hands: (K:) [for it is a custom of the Arabs to do thus as an indication of having nothing.] b6: تمسّح He wiped himself, مِنْ شَىْءٍ to remove a thing, and بِشَىْءٍ, with a thing. (L.) [See also 1.]6 تَمَاسَحَا (tropical:) They acted in a friendly or sincere manner, one to the other; syn. تَصَادَقَا: or they made a contract, or bargain, one with the other, and each struck the palm of the other's hand with the palm of his own hand [to confirm it], (K,) and swore to the other. (TA.) b2: تَمَاسَحُوا (tropical:) They took one another by the hand. (TA.) 8 امتسح He drew a sword (K) from its scabbard; as also ↓ مَسَحَ. (TA.) مَسْحٌ i. q. بَلَاسٌ; (S, K;) i.e., A garment of thick, or coarse, hair-cloth: so in the T: and a piece of such stuff as is spread in a house or tent: (TA:) a بلاس such as is worn by monks: (Mgh:) a كِسَآء of hair-cloth: (L:) an old and worn-out garment: (Kull:) pl. أَمْسَاحٌ and مُسُوحٌ; (S;) the former a pl. of pauc., and the latter a pl. of mult. (L.) b2: مِسْحٌ The main part, and middle, of a road; syn. جَادَّةٌ: (K:) pl. أَمْسَاحٌ (TA) and مُسُوحٌ. (K.) مَسَحٌ, a subst., Paucity of flesh in the posteriors and thighs; or smallness of the buttocks, and their sticking together; or paucity of flesh in the thighs; syn. رَسَحٌ. (L.) عَلَى فُلَانٍ مَسْحَةٌ مِنْ جَمَالٍ, (S, K,) or ↓ مِسْحَةٌ, (L,) (tropical:) Upon such a one there appears somewhat of beauty; (L, K;) or, some sign, or mark, or trait, of beauty: (L:) and مسحةُ كَرَمٍ, some sign, or mark, trait, or indication, of nobility; and the like: a mode of expression said, by Sh, to be used only in praise; so that you do not say عَلَيْهِ مسحةُ قُبْحٍ: (L:) but you say also بِهِ مسحةٌ مِنْ هُزَالٍ in him is somewhat, or some sign, or mark, of leanness; (L, K;) which is a phrase of the Arabs mentioned by Az. (L.) b2: مَسْحَةٌ in the cheek of a horse: see صِفَاحٌ.

مِسْحَةٌ: see مَسْحَةٌ.

مَسِيحٌ Anointed: wiped over with some such thing as oil. (K.) b2: A king. (El-'Eynee.) b3: المَسِيحُ [The Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed,] Jesus, on whom be peace ! (S, Msb, K,) [correctly] an arabicized word, [from the Hebrew,] originally مَشِيحَا, with ش: (T, Msb:) but the learned differ as to this word, whether it be Arabic or arabicized: F relates, in the K, his having mentioned, in his Expos. of the Meshárik el-Anwár, fifty opinions respecting the derivation of it; and in another work he has made the number fifty-six. (TA.) b4: Also, (K,) or المَسِيحُ الكَذَّابُ, (S,) or ↓ المِسِّيحُ, (K,) [The Messiah, or Christ, surnamed the Great Liar; the False Christ; Antichrist; also called] EdDejjál, الدَّجَّالُ: (S, K:) it is not allowable, however, to apply to him the appellation المَسِيحُ without restriction; wherefore one says المَسِيحُ الدَّجَّالُ [or الكَذَّابُ]; (TA;) [unless in a case like the following, in which] a poet says إِذَا المَسِيحُ يَقْتُلُ المَسِيحَ [When the true Messiah shall slay the false Messiah] (Msb.) [Many opinions respecting the derivation of the appellation thus applied are also mentioned by various authors.] b5: مَسِيحٌ Sweat: (T, S, K:) so called because it is wiped off (يُمْسَحُ) when it pours forth. (T.) b6: مَسِيحٌ (tropical:) A dirhem [or silver coin] of which the impression is obliterated; syn. أَطْلَسُ; (S, Msb, K;) having no impression. (Msb.) b7: مَسِيحٌ (S, K) and ↓ مَسِيحَةٌ (TA) A piece of silver. (As, S, K.) b8: مَسِيحٌ. (tropical:) i. q. مَمْسُوحُ الوَجْهِ, (K,) i.e., A man having one side of his face plain, without eye or eyebrow: said to apply in this sense to EdDejjál, among others. (IF, L.) b9: One-eyed. (Az.) [See also أَمْسَحُ.] b10: مَسِيحٌ A rough napkin, or kerchief, with which one wipes himself: (L, K:) so called because the face is wiped with it, or because it retains the dirt. (TA.) [A dusting-cloth, or dish-clout, or the like, is now called ↓ مِمْسَحَةٌ.] b11: مَسِيحٌ Beautiful in the face. (TA.) b12: مَسِيحٌ One who journeys or goes about much for the sake of devotion, or as a devotee; as also ↓ مِسِّيحٌ (K,) and ↓ أَمْسَحُ, (TA,) the fem. of which is مَسْحَآءُ. (K, TA.) See مَسَّاحٌ.

A2: مَسِيحٌ (tropical:) Multum coiens; as also ↓ مَاسِحٌ. (K.) b2: مَسِيحٌ Erring greatly. (TA.) b3: مَسِيحٌ A great liar; one who lies much; as also ↓ مَاسِحٌ and ↓ مِمْسَحٌ (K) and ↓ تِمْسَحٌ (Lh, K) and ↓ أَمْسَحُ, (TA,) the fem. of which last is مَسْحَآءُ. (K, TA.) See مَاسِحٌ.

A3: مَسِيحٌ Very veracious; syn. صِدِّيقٌ: (K, L, TA: in the CK صَدِيقٌ:) a meaning unknown to many of the lexicologists, and probably obsolete in their time. (L.) A4: مَسِيحٌ Created blessed, and goodly; (L;) created (مَمْسُوحٌ) with blessing, or prosperity: (K:) b2: and, contr., created accursed, and foul, or ugly; (L;) created with unfortunateness. (K.) مِسَاحَةٌ (tropical:) Mensuration of land. (Msb.) [See also 1.] b2: See also تَكْسِيرٌ.

مَسِيحَةٌ i. q. ذُؤَابَةٌ, [a portion, or lock, of hair hanging down loosely from the middle of the head to the back; or the hair of the fore part of the head; the hair over the forehead; or the part whence that hair grows; or a plait of hair hanging down; &c.]: (S, L, K:) or hair that is left without its being dressed with oil or anything else: or that part of a man's head that is between the ear and the eyebrow, rising to the part below that where the sutures of the scull unite: or that part of the side of the hair upon which a man puts his hand, next to his ear: or the hair of each side of the head: pl. مَسَائِحُ: or مسائح signifies the place which a man wipes with his hand: or, accord. to As, the hair: or, accord. to Sh, the hair which one wipes with his hand, upon his cheek and his head. (L.) b2: See مَسِيحٌ.

A2: مَسِيحَةٌ A bow: (S, K:) or an excellent bow: (L.) pl. مَسَائحُ. (S, K.) مَسَّاحٌ (tropical:) A measurer of land; (TA;) as also ↓ مَسِيحٌ. (L.) مِسِّيحٌ and المِسِّيحُ: see مَسِيحٌ.

بِهِ مَاسِحٌ He (a camel) has a fretting of the edge of the callosity upon his breast, produced by his elbow, without making it bleed: if he make it bleed, you say بِهِ حَازٌّ: (S, L:) and he has a chafing of his arm-pit produced by his elbow, but not violent, by reason of the disease called ضَاغِط. (L.) b2: See مَسِيحٌ. b3: مَاسِحٌ and ↓ مَسِيحٌ A great slayer; one who slays much, or many. (Az, L.) مَاسِحَةٌ A woman who combs and dresses hair; syn. مَاشِطَةٌ. (S.) أَمْسَحُ A flat place, with small pebbles, and without plants, or herbage. (S.) b2: مَسْحَآءُ A plain tract of land, with small pebbles, (S, K,) and without plants, or herbage: (S:) [ex.] مَرَرْتُ بِخَرِيقٍ مِنَ الأَرْضِ بِيْنَ مَسْحَاوَيْنِ [I passed by a depressed tract of land containing herbage between two plain tracts containing small pebbles and without herbage]: (Fr, S:) or a piece of flat ground, bare, abounding with pebbles, containing no trees nor herbage, rugged, somewhat hard, like a flat place in which camels &c. are confined, or in which dates are dried, not what is termed قُفّ, nor what is termed سَهْلَة: (ISh:) pl. مَسَاحٍ and مَسَاحى [i. e. مَسَاحَى or مَسَاحِىُّ]; pl. forms proper to substs.; as it is an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (L.) b3: Also مَسْحآءُ Red land. (K.) b4: مَسْحَآءُ A woman having little flesh in her posteriors and thighs; or foul, ugly, or unseemly; syn. رَسْحَآءُ. (S.) [In the K., الأَرْضُ الرَّسْحَآءُ, given as an explanation of المَسْحَآءُ, is an evident mistake for المَرْأَةُ الرَّسْحَآءُ, as observed by Freytag.] b5: أَمْسَحُ, or أَمْسَحُ القَدَمِ, A man having a flat sole to his foot, without any hollow: (L:) fem. مَسْحَآءُ: (L, K:) and ↓ مَسِيحٌ, or القَدَمَيْنِ ↓ مَسِيحُ, signifies the same: and also having smooth and soft feet, without fissures or chaps, so that they repel water when it falls upon them. (L.) b6: Also مَسْحَآءُ, (K,) or مسحآءُ الثَّدْىِ, (L,) A woman whose breast has no bulk. (L, K.) b7: Also مَسْحَآءُ A one-eyed woman: [see also مَسِيحٌ:] and such as is termed بِخْقَآءُ, whose eye is not مُلَوَّزَة: so in [most of] the copies of the K., but in some, بِلَّوْرَة: (TA:) [the meaning seems to be whose eye has no crystalline humour]. b8: أَمْسَحُ A man having little flesh in his posteriors and thighs; or having small buttocks sticking together; syn. ارسح: fem. مَسْحَآءُ: pl. مُسْحٌ. (L.) b9: أَمْسَحَ A man (S) having the inner sides of his thighs rubbing together (S, L, K) so as to become sore and chapped: (L:) or having the inner side of his knee inflamed by the roughness of his garment: (L, K:) fem. مَسْحَآءُ, and pl. مُسْحٌ. (L.) b10: غَارَةٌ مَسْحَآءُ (tropical:) A hostile attack, or incursion, by a troop of horse, in which the attacking party passes lightly by the party attacked, or brushes by them, without remaining by them. (L, from a trad.) b11: See مَسِيحٌ.

أَمْسَح [app. used as a subst., and therefore with, or without, tenween,] A flat tract of land: pl. أَمَاسِحُ. (TA.) b2: A smooth desert; or smooth waterless desert. (Lth.) أُمْسُوحٌ Any long piece of wood in a ship: (K:) pl. أَمَاسِيحٌ. (TA.) مِمْسَحٌ and مِمْسَحَةٌ: see مَسِيحٌ.

مَمْسُوحُ الأَلْيَتَيْنِ Having the buttocks cleaving to the bone, and small. (L.) b2: مَمْسُوحٌ A eunuch whose testicles have been extirpated. (TA.) b3: عَضُدٌ مَمْسُوحَةٌ An arm, from the shoulder to the elbow, having little flesh. (TA.) b4: مَمْسُوحُ A thing foul, or ugly, and unfortunate, and changed from its proper form, or make. (TA.) [See art. مسخ.]

تِمْسَحٌ A dissembler; a deceiver; (K;) one who blandishes, soothes, or wheedles, one with his words, and deceives him. (TA.) b2: تِمْسَحٌ An audacious, or insolent, and wicked, or corrupt, man: (L, K:) or a great liar, who, if asked, will not tell thee truly whence he comes; who lies to thee even as to the place whence he comes. (L.) [See also مَسِيحٌ.] b3: See تِمْسَاحٌ.

تِمْسَاحٌ, (S, Msb, K,) and ↓ تِمْسَحٌ, (Msb, K,) the latter app. a contraction of the former, (Msb,) [The crocodile]; a well-known aquatic animal, (S,) a creature like the tortoise, of great size, found in the Nile of Egypt and in the river Mihrán, (K,) which is the river of Es-Sind; (TA;) or [rather] resembling the وَرَل about five cubits long, and less; that seizes men and oxen, and dives into the water with them and devours them: pl. of the former تَمَاسِيحٌ, and of the latter تَمَاسِحُ. (Msb.)

معز

1 مَعِزَ الشَّىْءُ, [and مَعِزَتِ الأَرْضُ, accord. to the explanation of the inf. n. in the S,] aor. ـَ (TK,) inf. n. مَعَزٌ, (S, K, TK,) The thing [and the ground] was, or became, hard. (S, * K, * TK.) A2: مَعِزَ said of a man: see 4.

A3: مَعَزْتُ المِعْزَى, وَضَأَنْتُ الضَّأْنَ, aor. ـَ I set apart the goats from the sheep. (K.) 4 امعز He, (a man, A,) or it, (a people, S,) became abundant in goats; his or its, goats became abundant, or numerous; (S, A, K;) as also, ↓ مَعِزَ, aor. ـَ (K,) inf. n. مَعَزٌ. (TK.) مَعْزٌ, and ↓ مَعَزٌ, (S, A, Msb, K,) gen. ns., (S, Msb,) [or rather quasi-pl. ns., signifying Goats;] the kind of غَنَم opposed to ضَأْنٌ; (S, A, K;) the kind of عَنَم that have hair; (Msb, TA;) the ضأْن being those that have wool; (TA;) as also ↓ مِعْزًى, (S, Msb, K,) accord. to Sb, (S,) with tenween, (S, Msb,) when indeterminate, (Msb,) and perfectly decl., (S,) the ا [which is written ى] being a letter of quasicoördination, not a characteristic of the fem. gender, (S, Msb,) for the word is quasi-coördinate to دِرْهَمٌ, of the measure فِعْلَلٌ; for the ا of quasi-coördination follows the same rules as a letter belonging to the word itself, as is shown by their saying ↓ مُعَيْزٍ and أُرَيْطٍ [originally مُعَيْزِىٌ and أُرَيْطِىٌ] as the dim. forms of مِعْزًى and أَرْطًى with tenween, the letter next after the ى of diminution being with kesr, like as they say دُرَيْهِمٌ; for if the ا were to denote the fem. gender they would not change it into ى [in مُعَيْزِىٌ, the original form of مُعَيْزٍ,] like as they do not change it in the dims. of حُبْلَى and أَخْرَى

[which are حُبَيْلَى and أُخَيْزَى]: (S:) it is sometimes made fem., [by being written or pronounced مِعْزَاةٌ,] and sometimes it is made imperfectly decl. [and therefore without tenween]: (K:) Fr says, that it is [itself] fem., but that some make it masc. [and therefore with tenween]: but A 'Obeyd says, that most of the Arabs pronounce ذِفْرَى without tenween, while some of them pronounce it with tenween, whereas all of them pronounce مِعْزًى with tenween: (S:) IAar says, that it is perfectly decl. when likened to the measure مِفْعَلٌ, and imperfectly decl. when held to accord. with the measure فِعْلَى: (TA:) accord. to Aboo-'Amr, Ibn-El-'Alà, it is from مَعَزٌ, [inf. n. of مَعِزَ,] and in like manner ذِفْرَى is from ذَفَرٌ: (As, S:) ↓ مَعِيزٌ also signifies the same as مَعْزٌ, (S, A, K,) or is pl. of مَعْزٌ, [or rather a quasi-pl. n.] like as عَبِيدٌ is of عَبْدٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ أُمْعُوزٌ also is syn. with مَعْزٌ, (S, K,) and so are ↓ مِعَازٌ (K) and ↓ مِعْزَآءٌ: (Sgh, K:) [respecting أُمْعُوزٌ, see also below:] مَعْزٌ [as well as its syns. mentioned above, like all quasi-pl. ns., is sometimes masc., but generally] is fem.: (Msb:) a male is called ↓ مَاعِزٌ, (S, A, Msb, K,) and so a female; (Msb, K;) or a female is called ↓ مَاعِزَةٌ (S, A, TA) [and ↓ مَعْزَةٌ (M, voce شَرْقَآءُ)] and ↓ مِعْزَاة; (TA;) and شَاةٌ [or rather شَاةٌ مِنَ المَعْزِ] is also used as a sing., (Msb,) and is applied to a male and to a female: (Msb, art. شوه:) [see also ظَبْىٌ:] أَمْعُزٌ is a pl. [of pauc.] of مَعْزٌ, like as أَعْبُدٌ is of عَبْدٌ: (Msb:) the pl. of ↓ مَاعِزٌ, (K,) or of مَاعِزَةٌ, (S,) is مَوَاعِزُ; (S, K;) and ↓ مِعَازٌ and ↓ أُمْعُوزٌ are said to be quasi-pl. ns. (TA.) The goats of the Arabs of the desert have short hair, not long enough to be spun; but the goats of the cold countries, and of the people of the fertile regions, have abundant hair, and of this the Akrád [or Kurds] fabricate their tents. (T in art. بنى.) See also تَدْمُرِىٌّ in art. دمر; and see ضَائِنٌ in art. ضأن.

مَعْزَةٌ: see their syn. مَعْزٌ.

مِعْزًى: see their syn. مَعْزٌ.

مِعْزَآءٌ: see their syn. مَعْزٌ.

مِعْزَاةٌ a fem. sing. of مَعْزٌ, q. v. (TA.) مِعَازٌ: see their syn. مَعْزٌ.

مَعِيزٌ: see their syn. مَعْزٌ.

مُعَيْزٍ dim. of مِعْزْى, syn. of مَعْزٌ, q. v. (Sb, S.) مَعَّازٌ A possessor, or master, of مِعْزًى [or goats]. (S, K.) مَاعِزٌ and مَاعِزَةٌ sings. of مَعْزٌ, q. v. (S, K. *) b2: The former also signifies Goats' skin. (S, K.) أَمْعَزُ, and its fem. مَعْزَآءُ, applied respectively to a place (مَكَانٌ) and to land or ground (أَرْضٌ), (tropical:) Hard, (S, K,) and abounding with pebbles: (S:) or both, [used as substs.,] rugged and stony ground: (A:) or a place abounding with pebbles, and hard: or the latter, small pebbles: (A 'Obeyd, TA:) thus A 'Obeyd explains a sing. as having a pl. signification: (TA:) or the latter, a desert, (صَحْرَآء) in which is elevation and ruggedness, consisting of soil, or clay, and pebbles, mixed together, but hard ground, rough to the tread: (ISh, TA:) pl. مُعْزٌ, (K,) [a pl. of each as an epithet, or of each used as a subst.,] because imagined to have the character of an epithet; (TA;) and أَمَاعِزُ, [a pl. of the former,] because the character of a subst. predominates in it; and مَعْزَاوَاتٌ, a pl. of the latter. (TA.) أُمْعُوزٌ: see its syn. مَعْزٌ. b2: It also signifies, (K,) or is said to signify, (S,) A herd of gazelles, (S, K,) in number from thirty to forty; (S, TA;) or from thirty upwards: or a number of buckgazelles collected together: (TA:) or a number of أَوْعَال [or mountain-goats] collected together: (A, K:) or of اوعال such as are termed ثَيَاتِل: (Az, TA:) pl. أَمَاعِيزُ and أَمَاعِزُ. (K.)

معط

1 مَعِطَ, (S, K,) aor. ـَ (K,) inf. n. مَعَطٌ, (S,) He (a man) was, or became, without hair upon his body: (S:) and in like manner you say of a man's skin: (TA:) and of a wolf, meaning his hair fell off by degrees, or part after part: but you should not say مَعِطَ شَعَرُهُ: (S:) [but see 5:] or, said of a wolf, it signifies he was, or became, mischievous, malignant, or foul; syn. خَبُثَ: or his hair became scanty, or little, (K,) and ↓ تمعّط said of a wolf, his hair fell off: (Mgh, Msb:) and ↓ إِمَّعَطَ, (S, K,) of the measure إِفْتَعَلَ, or [rather] إِنْفَعَلَ, (accord. to different copies of the K,) said of a rope, (S, K,) &c., (S,) it became worn smooth. (S, K.) b2: See also 5.

A2: مَعَطَ, aor. ـَ (K,) inf. n. مَعْطٌ, (TA,) He plucked out hair [or wool] (K, TA,) from the head of a sheep or goat. (TA.) 5 تمعّط It (hair, S, Msb, [in the TA, الرجل is inadvertently put for الشعر, and copied in the TK, with the addition of شعره in the explanation,]) fell off by degrees, or part after part, (S, Msb, K, TA,) upon the ground, (TA,) by reason of disease, (S, K, TA,) or the like; (S;) as also ↓ امتعط, (S,) and ↓ إِمَّعَطَ, (S, K,) of the measure إِفْتَعَلَ, (K,) or [rather] of the measure إِنْفَعَلَ [originally إِنْمَعَطَ]: (S:) and [accord. to some, but see 1, above,] ↓ مَعِطَ, aor. ـَ (Msb,) inf. n. مَعَطٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) it (hair) fell off. (Mgh, Msb.) You say also, تَمَعَّطَتْ أَوْبَارُهُ His fur became scattered. (K, TA) b2: See also 1.7 إِمَّعَطَ, [said in the S, and in one place in a copy of the K, to be of the measure إِنْفَعَلَ]: see 1: b2: and 5.8 امتعط and إِمَّعَطَ [which latter is said in one place in the copies of the K, to be of the measure إِفْتَعَلَ]: see 5: b2: and for the latter, see also 1.

مَعِطٌ: see أَمْعَطُ.

أَبُو مُعْطَةَ The wolf: (K:) a gen. proper name thereof; similar to ذُؤَالَةُ and أُسَامَةُ and ثُعَالَةُ. (TA.) أَمْعَطُ, applied to a man, Having no hair upon his body; (S, K;) or whose hair has fallen off; fem. مَعْطَآءُ: (Msb:) [and pl. مُعْطٌ:] and, applied to a wolf, whose hair has fallen off by degrees, or part after part: (S:) or, thus applied, mischievous, malignant, or foul: [see 1:] or whose hair has become scanty, or little: as also ↓ مَعِطٌ: (K:) and مَعْطَآءُ, applied to a she-wolf, has the former of the last two significations: and, applied to a ewe, it signifies whose wool has fallen off. (TA.) b2: لِصٌّ أَمْعَطُ (tropical:) A mischievous, malignant or foul, or wolf-like, thief, or robber; (S, * L;) likened to the wolf termed امعط: pl. مُعْطٌ. (S, L.) b3: أَمْعَطُ applied to sand, (K,) and مَعْطَآءُ applied to a tract or collection of sand (رَمْلَةٌ), (TA,) and to land (أَرْضٌ), (K,) and مُعْطٌ applied to sands (رِمَالٌ), (K,) also signify (tropical:) Destitute of herbage. (K, TA.) b4: Also أَمْعَطُ [app. applied to sand or the like], Extended upon the face of the earth or ground. (TA.) b5: And المَعْطَآءُ, (IAar, K,) as a subst., (IAar,) The pudendum; syn. السَّوْءَةُ. (IAar, K.)