مَثَّ
Root: مث
Form: 1
Full Definition
مَثَّI
, [Present.T
مَثِثَ
] It distilled, or let flow, the only matter that was in it: [like نَثَّ].
2 مَثَّ, (S, K, Present.Tمَثَثَ
Verbal.Noun مَثٌّ, TA,) and
مَثْمَثَ , or, as in some copies of the K, , It (a نِحْى, or butterskin,) exuded [its butter: as also نَثَّ]. You do not say of it نَضَحَ.
3 يَمِثُّ مَثَّ الحَمِيتِ He sweats like the butter-skin.
4 مَثَّ, Present.Tمَثِثَ
He sweated by reason of fatness.
5 جَاءَ يَمِثُّ He came in a fat state, and looking as though he were anointed.
6 مَثَّ قَيْحًا وَدَمًا, Present.Tمَثُثَ
; or Present.T
مَثِثَ
; 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.
7 مَثَّ شَارِبَهُ, (Present.Tمَثُثَ
Verbal.Noun مَثٌّ, ISd,) He put some grease upon his mustaches: or he greased his mustaches so that they glistened: or he wiped his mustaches with his hands, they having been greased, and left some remains, or traces, of grease visible upon them: IDrd thinks مَثَّ and نَثَّ to be syn.
8 مَثَّ الجُرْحَ, [Present.Tمَثُثَ
] He removed the purulent matter from the wound: or he anointed the wound; as also نَثَّ.
9 مَثَّ, Present.Tمَثُثَ
(Verbal.Noun مَثٌّ, TA,) He wiped his hand with a napkin, or with dry grass, or the like: a dial. form of مَشَّ: or he wiped anything: [as also نِثَّ.]
2 مَثَّ, (S, K, Present.T
3 يَمِثُّ مَثَّ الحَمِيتِ He sweats like the butter-skin.
4 مَثَّ, Present.T
5 جَاءَ يَمِثُّ He came in a fat state, and looking as though he were anointed.
6 مَثَّ قَيْحًا وَدَمًا, Present.T
7 مَثَّ شَارِبَهُ, (Present.T
8 مَثَّ الجُرْحَ, [Present.T
9 مَثَّ, Present.T
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