ملح

. Here "we" means [the wife of one of us].

Synonym of أَرْضَعَهُ. See أَرْضَعَ.

Maṣdar تَمْلِيحٌ and تملّح; the latter is said to be formed by transposition from تحلّم, but ISd sees no reason for that assertion.

El-Umawee: or she became a little fat; she (a camel) became fat in a small degree.

Also تحلّمت.

Also: beautiful of colour, or beautiful and bright; pleasing to the eye or ear; facetious.

maṣdar مَلَاحَةٌ, مُلُوحَةٌ and مِلْحٌ, of which the first is the commonest and the last the least common.

Muḍāriʿ مَلَحَ and مَلِحَ.

Or: he put a proper quantity of salt into it.

According to Sb, ملّح and املح mean the same as مَلَحَ.

Maṣdar تَمْلِيحٌ and أَمْلَحَهَا.

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Maṣdar تَمْليحٌ.

The salt is the greater in quantity. This is done when the animals cannot get plants of the kind called حَمْض.

Muḍāriʿ مَلَحَ and مَلِحَ; maṣdar مَلْحٌ and ملّح.

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Said of a camel, sheep, or goat. Maṣdar تَمْلِيحٌ.

maṣdar مَلَحٌ. Said of a man and the like. [See مُلْحَةٌ.]

Maṣdar إِمْلِحَاحٌ and أَمْلَحَ.

Also: he was black, with whiteness overspreading his hair; or of a dusty white colour; or of a clear white colour.

Maṣdar إِمْلِحَاحٌ.

Maṣdar مُمَالَحَةٌ and مِلَاحٌ.

[المِلَاحُ is explained in the K by المُرَاضَعَةُ; Lth explains it by الرَّضَاعُ, as mentioned in the TA; المُمَالَحَةُ is explained in the A, Mgh, L and other lexicons by المُرَاضَعَةُ, in the copies of the K in my hands by الرَّضَاعُ, and so in one copy of the S; in another copy of the S it is written الرِّضَاعُ, and in another الرّضَاع, without any vowel to the ر; الرضَاعُ, synonym of المُرَاضَعَةُ, is clearly the right reading.]

Abu-l-Kāsim Er-Zejjājee disapproves of the verb used as meaning the act of two men's sucking each other, [but this is not what is meant by المراضعة,] and pronounces it a post-classical word.

Also: the people had fat camels or other beasts.

[A diminutive form, meant to denote the contrary of the sense of a diminutive, being what is termed تَصْغِيرُ تَعْظِيمٍ from مَا أَمْلَحَهُ.]

The verb is here put into the diminutive form, being meant to be used as an adjective, as though they said مُلَيْحٌ. It is the only instance of a verb put into this form, except مَا أُحَيْسِنَهُ, and, as some say, مَا أُحَيْلَاهُ.

This is said according to the doctrine of the Basrees, who hold the افعل of wonder to be a verb; but the Koofees, who say that it is a noun, [meaning an adjective,] allow the formation of the diminutive from it without restriction, and from its admitting the diminutive form they argue that it is a noun.

That is, زَيِّنِّى.

As cites the following verse of Abu-t-Tamaḥān, who had some camels and gave a people to drink of their milk, and they afterwards attacked and took them: [apparently, according to the S, as an example of ملح in the sense of رَضَاع; but as MF observes, it may be taken as an example of that word in the sense of milk:]

The poet says: I hope that you may consider ( أَنْ تَرْعَوْا [which is understood]) the milk of these camels that you have drunk, [literally, their milk in your bellies,] and the skins which they have expanded, of a people with matted and dusty hair, and of a dusty hue, as though their skins had dried up and they had grown fat upon them. [Another explanation will be noticed below.]

IB says that the last word should be read أَغْبَرِ for the sake of the rhyme, since every verse of the poem it belongs to ends with kesreh.

Originally مَلِحْ, from the verb مَلُحَ, like خَشِنٌ from خَشُنَ, contracted because of the frequency of its use.

[Regarding this word, see what follows the explanation.]

J says that مَاء مالح is not allowable except in a bad dialect; but Az says that, though rarely found in the language of the Arabs, it is not to be rejected, and IB says that it occurs in verses of chaste poets, and may be considered as used after the manner of a relative noun, [meaning ذُو مِلْحٍ,] like رَجُلٌ تَارِسٌ, that is, ذُو تُرْسٍ, and دَارِعٌ, that is, ذُو دِرْعٍ.

It is a chaste word, of the dialect of El-Ḥijāz, but irregular, being from أَمْلَحَ المَآءُ, as you say بَاقِلٌ from أَبْقَلَ المَوْضِعُ; and when it is said to be rare, what is meant is that it does not agree with its verb, not that it is rare in usage, since it belongs to the dialect of the people of El-Ḥijāz, who chose the most chaste words of the various dialects; or it is regularly formed from مَلَحَ المَأءُ, a form of the verb sometimes used.

The plural of مِلْحٌ is مِلْحَةٌ, مِلَاحٌ and مِلَحٌ; and sometimes أَمْوَاهٌ مِلْحٌ is said, meaning salt waters; and رَكِيَّةٌ مِلْحَةٌ means a salt well.

Plural أَقْلِبَةٌ مِلَاحٌ, occurring in a verse of ʿAntarah.

Synonym of عِلْمٌ. IKh, Kz.

Men of science; learned men; synonym of عُلَمَآءُ. IKh, Kz.

Goodliness, or beauty.

[According to the TA it is a maṣdar: see مَلُحَ.]

Fat, as a noun.

Fatness; or a small degree of fatness.

The cancelling or breaking of it makes one liable to blame; synonym of حُرْمَةٌ and ذِمَامٌ; also a compact, or confederacy, synonym of حِلْفٌ.

In some copies of the K, حَلفٌ is put for حِلْفٌ.

[This meaning comes from مِلْحٌ as meaning "salt," the eating of which with another lays a sacred mutual obligation on the two parties.]

According to Aboo-Saʿeed, this is the meaning of the former word in the verse of Abu-t-Tamaḥān cited above, and the poet means: I hope that God may punish you for your treacherous violation of the sacred obligation to their owner, which they laid upon you.

Abu-l-ʿAbbās says that the Arabs pay a high respect to salt, and fire, and ashes.

So in the copies of the K, but correctly على رُكْبَتَيْهِ, as in all the other lexicons.

Meaning: he has no good faith, so as to fulfil his promises or engagements; or he has little good faith in fulfilling them, for the Arabs swear by salt and by water because of their respect for them; or he violates the obligation such things impose, the smallest thing making him forget it, as salt is scattered by the least thing if a person puts it upon his knees.

Or: he is fat. As says of the following verse: [Blame her not, for she is of women whose fat is placed above the knees;]

— the woman meant was of the people called Ez-Zenj, whose fat is in their thighs, and ملحها means their fat.

Or: he is sharp in his anger; or he is of evil disposition, made angry by the least thing, as salt upon the knee is scattered by the least thing; or he is often engaged in quarrelling, as though his knees were much wounded by his long kneeling in argument and by his long striking them against another's, so that he put salt upon them to cure them. [See also رُكْبَةٌ.]

A certain disease and fault in the hind leg of a beast of carriage; a swelling in the hock, or hock-tendon, of a horse.

It is less than what is called جَرَذٌ, which is the name given to it when it has become violent.

[Apparently grayness is meant, from مِلْحٌ as meaning "salt," since salt in the state in which it is commonly used in Arabia is of a pale gray colour.]

That is,. [See أَمْلَحُ.]

Also وَاحِدَةُ المُلَحِ مِنَ الأَحَادِيثِ [what is deemed beautiful, elegant, or facetious, of stories and the like (Ibr D); and so أُمْلُوحَةٌ, coupled with أُفْكُوهَةٌ, in art. فكه in the TA].

Also said to mean a bad, abominable, or foul word, saying, or speech; a meaning taken from a tradition of ʿĀïsheh, who applied the term [perhaps ironically] to a bad answer she had given after misunderstanding a question put to her. Plural مُلَحٌ.

A saying of As.

[A curiosity, an extraordinary thing.]

[A sucker: see مَصَّانٌ in art. مص.]

See مِلْحٌ.

[Facetious speech.]

According to AA, one in whose counsel, or advice, one seeks a remedy; hence the phrase قريش ملح الناس.

According to some, one with whom one finds it pleasant to sit and converse. IB, in the TA, voce نِقَابٌ.

See صِفْرِدٌ.

Also a kind of fig, small, of the colour termed أَمْلَح, very sweet, and which is dried.

Also a species of the tree called أَرَاك, in which is whiteness and redness and the colour termed شُهْبَة.

So called because he is constantly upon the salt water.

Also one who constantly attends to a river to put its mouth into a right or proper state.

نَهْر in some copies of the K; بَحْر in the TA.

His occupation is called مِلَاحَةٌ and مَلَّاحِيَّةٌ.

[A collective generic noun.] A certain plant, of the kind called حَمْضٌ, a leguminous garden-plant; ism waḥda with ة.

It is a tender plant, with a salt flavour, growing in smooth, or soft, and low tracts of land.

Or a herb of the kind called حَمْض, having twigs and leaves, growing in tracts such as are called قِفَاف, of a salt flavour, wholesome to camels and sheep.

Or a plant like the قُلَّام, with a red hue in it, eaten with milk, bearing grain that is gathered as that of the فَثّ is, and made into bread and eaten: so says AHn, who adds, I think that it is called thus because of its colour, not because of its taste.

In another place he says that the مُلَّاح is the raceme of the كَبَاث of the أَرَاك, so called because of its taste, which is hot, as though it contained salt. [Suœda baccata. Forsk., Flor., 69.]

Also: blue, or gray, [see مُلْحَةٌ] in such a degree as to incline to whiteness; an adjective applied to a man and the like.

Or one that is white and great; or, great.

[See also كتيبة شَهْبَآءُ.]

So called because of its whiteness.

Er-Rāʿee says, describing some camels, meaning by املح dew: [They remained in it during the period of the season called الربيع, and their preserver from thirst was attended by comfort, being dew brought by the night]

He says that they remained in that place during the days of the season called الربيع and while the dew lasted, so that he was ( فَهُوَ [but this appears to be a mistake for فَهِىَ, "so that they were"] ) in a comfortable state of life; and he says مسّى به because the dew falls in the night; by جارها he means the night-dew which preserved them from thirst.

المَلْحَآءُ was also the name of a particular troop belonging to the family of El-Mundhir, of the Kings of Syria, who had another called الشَّهْبَآءُ.

Said of a بُرْدَة.

Said of a camel; the withers being الكَاهِل.

Or the middle of the back, between the withers and the rump. (T, S: in neither of which is reference made here to a camel.)

Or the part between the hump of a camel and its rump; or the vertebrae of a camel over which is the hump; or, in a camel, the part beneath the hump, containing six vertebrae. Plural مَلْحَاوَاتٌ.

The swelling called مَلَحٌ.

Or one having some remains of fatness.