Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مُتَمَرَّسٌ

Root: مرس

Full Definition

مُتَمَرَّسٌ [originally A place where one rubs or scratches himself against a thing. Hence, app., the saying,]
2 مَا بِفُلَانٍ مُتَمَرَّسٌ [Nothing can be done with, or got from, such a one]: said of him from whom the enemy can obtain no advantage: or of him who is hardy and strong, so that he who strives with him cannot withstand him, because he has striven against calamities and contentions: and of the avaricious man, from whom he who is in want cannot obtain anything.


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