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مَرَجَ

Root: مرج

Form: 1

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مَرَجَI , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun مَرْجٌ, He fed in a pasture.
2 مَرَجَ, (Present.T ـُ S,) Verbal.Noun مَرْجٌ, He sent a beast of carriage to pasture: or left it [app. to pasture wheresoever it would]: he pastured it; and so أَمْرَجَ : or the latter signifies he left it to go wheresoever it would [app. to pasture].

def.2 مَرَجَ, Verbal.Noun مَرْجٌ, He mixed [a thing with another thing, or two things together].
2 مَرَجَ البَحْرَيْنِ, [Kur., xxv., 55; and lv., 19,] He hath mixed the two seas, so that they meet together, the sweet and the salt, yet so that the salt does not overpass its bounds and mix itself with the sweet: or He hath sent them forth so that they afterwards meet together: but this is only said by the people of Tihámeh: or, as also أَمْرَجَ , He hath let them flow freely, yet so that one does not become mixed with the other: He hath made them flow.
3 مَرَجَ, Present.T ـُ He marred, or spoiled, his affair.
4 مرِجَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun مَرَجٌ, It became corrupt; impaired; spoiled; marred; or disordered.
5 مَرِجَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun مَرَجٌ; and مَرَجَ; but the former is the more approved; It became unsteady; like جَرِجَ.
6 مَرِجَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun مَرَجٌ, It became in a confused and disturbed state, so that one found it difficult to extricate himself from perplexity therein. It , was in a confused state, and little observed.
7 مَرِجَ النَّاسُ The people became confused.


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