مَرَدَ

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مَرَدَI , (Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun مَرْدٌ, S, L,) He steeped bread, or corn, in water, and mashed it with his hand, so as to soften it: or he soaked bread in water; and so مَرَثَ, and مَرَذَ, with the dotted ذ; or he softened bread in water, and crumbled it with his fingers.
2 مَرَدَهُ He rubbed it in water.
3 مَرَدَهُ, Verbal.Noun مَرْدٌ, He crumbled it [namely bread &c.], or broke it into small pieces, with his fingers; syn. ثَرَدَهُ.
4 مَرَدَهُ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun مَرْدٌ, He made it soft.
5 مَرَدَهُ and مرّدهُ He made it soft and smooth; he polished it. See also 2.
6 مَرَدَ, (Verbal.Noun مَرْدٌ, S, L,) He mumbled (مَرَسَ) the breast of his mother: or sucked it.
7 مَرِدَ, Present.T He continued to eat مَرِيد, i. e., dates soaked in milk until rendered soft.
8 مَرِدَ It was, or became, destitute of leaves.
9 مَرِدَتِ الأَرْضُ, Verbal.Noun مَرَدٌ, The land was, or became, destitute of herbage, excepting a small quantity.
10 مَرِدَ He was, or became, without hair upon the fetlock.
11 مَرِدَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun مَرَدٌ and مُرُودَةٌ; and تمرّد ; He was as yet beardless: or had no hair upon his cheeks: or remained to a late period without his beard having grown, or without the hair of his face having grown forth.

def.2 مَرَدَ Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun مُرُودٌ and مَرْدٌ; and مَرُدَ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun مَرَادَةٌ and مُرُودَةٌ; and تمرّد ; He exalted himself, or was insolent and audacious, in pride and in acts of rebellion or disobedience; he was hold, or audacious; and immoderate, inordinate, or exhorbitant; or excessively, immoderately, or inordinately, proud, or corrupt, or unbelieving, or disobedient or rebellious; or exalted himself and was inordinate in infidelity; or was extravagant in acts of disobedience and in wrongdoing; or was refractory, or averse from obedience: or he went to such an extreme as thereby to pass from out of the general state [or category] of that species [to which he belonged].
2 So in the phrase مرد عَلَى الأَمْرِ He was bold or audacious, and immoderate, &c., in the affair: and in like manner, على الشَّرِّ, in evil, or mischief: تمرّد عَلَيْنَا He acted immoderately, inordinately, or exorbitantly, &c., towards us, or against us.
3 Some explain مَرُدَ as syn. with خَبُثَ [signifying He was bad, evil, wicked, malignant, noxious, corrupt, &c.].
4 تَمَرَّدَ مَارِدٌ وَعَزَّ الأَبْلَقُ [Márid hath resisted the attempt to take it, and El-Ablak hath proved strong]: a proverb: originally said by Ex-Zebbà, the Queen of the Arabs, with reference to two fortresses which she had failed to take.

def.3 مَرَدَ, Verbal.Noun مَرْدٌ, He pushed, or propelled, a ship or boat, with a مُرْدِىّ.
2 He drove vehemently.

def.4 مَرَدَ عَلَى شَىْءٍ, [Present.T ـُ] Verbal.Noun مُرُودٌ; and تمرّد ; He became accustomed, habituated, or inured, to a thing.
2 مَرَدُوا عَلَى النِّفَاقِ [Kur., ix., 102,] They have become accustomed, habituated, or inured, to hypocrisy: or they have exalted themselves, or become insolent and audacious, in hypocrisy: accord. to Er-Rághib, it is from شَجَرَةٌ مَرْدَآءُ “ a tree without leaves; ” meaning, they have become destitute of good.
3 مَرَدَ عَلَى الكَلَامِ He became accustomed, or habituated, to what was said, so that he cared not for it.

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