مَثْمَثَ
Root: مث
Form: R. Q. 1
Full Definition
مَثْمَثَ
He saturated a wick with oil.
2 مَثْمَثَ, He immersed [a thing] in water.
def.2 مَثْمَثَ, (Verbal.Noun مَثْمَثَةٌ, S, and مِثْمَاثٌ, S, K,) He mixed, or confounded. You say مثمث أَمْرَهُمْ He confounded their affair.
2 مَثْمَثَهُ He moved it, or shook it, about; like مَزْمَزَهُ: you say أَخَذَهُ فَمَثْمَثَهُ He took it, and moved it, or shook it, about, and went forwards and backwards with it.
3 A poet says,
def.3 مَثْمَثُوا بِنَا, or مثمثوا بنا سَاعَةً, and , i. q. لَثْلِثُوا.
2 مَثْمَثَ, He immersed [a thing] in water.
def.2 مَثْمَثَ, (Verbal.Noun مَثْمَثَةٌ, S, and مِثْمَاثٌ, S, K,) He mixed, or confounded. You say مثمث أَمْرَهُمْ He confounded their affair.
2 مَثْمَثَهُ He moved it, or shook it, about; like مَزْمَزَهُ: you say أَخَذَهُ فَمَثْمَثَهُ He took it, and moved it, or shook it, about, and went forwards and backwards with it.
3 A poet says,
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. [It seems to me, that he is speaking of the track of a viper.] مِثْمَاثٌ, with kesreh, is the Verbal.Noun; and مَثْمَاثٌ, with fet-hah, is the subst. [By the subst., is here meant the ideal subst., or abstract noun, (like زَلْزَالٌ and قَلْقَال, as dis-ثُمَّ ٱسْتَحَثَّ ذَرْعَهُ ٱسْتِحْثَاثَا نَكَفْتُ حَيْثُ مَثْمَثَ المِيْمَاثَا
def.3 مَثْمَثُوا بِنَا, or مثمثوا بنا سَاعَةً, and , i. q. لَثْلِثُوا.
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