م س ح

Arabic

Etymology

Compare Aramaic משח (“to anoint”), Hebrew משח (“to anoint, smear with oil”). Meanings of erasing may be related to a derivation of the source of ن س خ (n-s-ḵ).

Root

م س ح • (m-s-ḥ)

1. related to wiping

Derived terms

• Form I: مَسَحَ (masaḥa, “to stroke with the hand or similar, to wipe off, to sweep; to anoint; to smooth, to polish; to wipe off, to wipe out, to cross off, to erase, to scrub, to flush; to wear, to fatigate, to emaciate”)
  • Verbal noun: مَسْح (masḥ)
  • Active participle: مَاسِح (māsiḥ)
  • Passive participle: مَمْسُوح (mamsūḥ)
• Form I: مَسَحَ (masaḥa, “to survey, to scan for proportions by going over, to clear through, to peragrate”)
  • Verbal noun: مَسْح (masḥ), مِسَاحَة (misāḥa)
  • Active participle: مَاسِح (māsiḥ)
  • Passive participle: مَمْسُوح (mamsūḥ)
• Form II: مَسَّحَ (massaḥa, “to wipe off, to anoint”)
  • Verbal noun: تَمْسِيح (tamsīḥ)
  • Active participle: مُمَسِّح (mumassiḥ)
  • Passive participle: مُمَسَّح (mumassaḥ)
• Form III: مَاسَحَ (māsaḥa, “to wheedle, to cajole”)
  • Verbal noun: مُمَاسَحَة (mumāsaḥa)
  • Active participle: مُمَاسِح (mumāsiḥ)
  • Passive participle: مُمَاسَح (mumāsaḥ)
• Form V: تَمَسَّحَ (tamassaḥa, “to wipe or anoint oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: تَمَسُّح (tamassuḥ)
  • Active participle: مُتَمَسِّح (mutamassiḥ)
• Form VIII: اِمْتَسَحَ (imtasaḥa, “to withdraw from the sheath”)
  • Verbal noun: اِمْتِسَاح (imtisāḥ)
  • Active participle: مُمْتَسِح (mumtasiḥ)
  • Passive participle: مُمْتَسَح (mumtasaḥ)

• مَسَّاح (massāḥ, “who rubs; surveyor”)
• مَسِيح (masīḥ, “smooth, polished; much-used piece of cloth; exerted much in coitus; roving about much; liar”)
• مِسِّيح (missīḥ, “roving much”)
• مَسُوح (masūḥ, “unguent”)
• أَمْسَح (ʔamsaḥ, “crippled, deformed”)
• مَسِيحَة (masīḥa, “curl of hair”)
• مِمْسَح (mimsaḥ), مِمْسَحَة (mimsaḥa, “wiper”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1199
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “م س ح”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 589–590
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes‎^[2] (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, pages 405–407
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “م س ح”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 177
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “م س ح”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[4] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1102–1104
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “م س ح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 1064–1065
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “م س ح”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1203–1204