م • غ • ث

, (S,) aor. مَغُثَ , (TK,) inf. n. مَغْثٌ, (K,) He steeped, soaked, or macerated, a thing in water, and rubbed it with the fingers; he steeped it in water, and mashed it with the hand; (TA;) he steeped, and mashed with the hand, medicine in water; syn. مَرَثَ. (S, K. *) مَغَثَ المَطَرُ الكَلَأَ inf. n. مَغْثٌ, The rain fell upon the herbage, and rendered it yellow, and bad-tasted, and laid it prostrate. (TA.) مَغَثَ, [aor. مَغُثَ ,] He submerged, or immersed, him, or it, in water. (K.) مُغِثَ He was affected by a fever. (TA.) مَغَثَتْهُ الحُمَّى The fever attacked him; or pained him. (TA.) مَغَثُوهُ, [aor. مَغُثَ ,] (S,) inf. n. مَغَثٌ, (K,) They beat him lightly, (S, K, *) as though they shook him about (كَأَنَّهُمْ تَلْتَلُوهُ). (S.) مَغَثَ عِرْضَهُ, (inf. n. مَغْثٌ, K,) He defamed him; disgraced him; dishonoured him; (S, K;) aspersed him by reviling. (TA.) مَغَثَهُمْ بِشَرٍّ He did evil to them. (TA.)

, inf. n. مِغَاثٌ and مُمَاغَثَةٌ, They clashed, and contended, each against the other; syn. حَاكَّا وَخَاصَمَا. (K.)

, (S, K,) or ↓ مَغْثٌ, (L,) and ↓ مُمَاغِثٌ, (L,) A strong wrestler. (S, K.) Also, the latter, A man pertinacious in altercation. (TA.) مَغِثٌ and ↓ مَغِيثٌ An evil, a wicked, or malignant, man: after the manner of a rel. n. [denoting habitual state or action, and the like]. (TA.)

and ↓ مَمْغُوثٌ Herbage laid prostrate by rain: (S, K:) herbage that is rained upon, and rendered yellow, and bad-tasted, and laid prostrate by the rain. (TA.) See مَغِثٌ.

Evil, as a subst. (K.) Conflict, (K,) and engagement of brave men in war, in the field of battle. (TA.) A struggling in wrestling. (TA.) See مَغِثٌ. Play; syn. عَبَثٌ. (K.) One of the additions of F. (TA.)

Affected by a fever. (IAar, K.) See مَغِيثٌ.

The lightest, or slightest, of the diseases incident to camels. (El-Hejeree.) Also, A certain tree, two carats' weight (قِيرَاطَانِ) of the root of which is an emetic and laxative: (K:) or, as in one copy [of the K], a certain plant, in the root of which is a poisonous quality (سمية [i. e., سُمِّيَّة]); the drinking of a grain of it [in water] causes looseness of the bowels, and vomiting, in an excessive degree. (TA.) But these properties [says SM] are strange, and not mentioned by the physicians. Ibn-El-Kutbee says, in [the book entitled] مَا لَا يَسَعُ الطَّبِيبَ جَهْلُهُ, مغاث is [the name of] roots which are imported, of a hot and moist temperament, in one of the last measures of the second degree, (فى اواخر الثانية,) [the degrees of heat and cold and dryness and moistness being four,] the best of which are the white and soft, inclining to yellow: it is fattening, strengthening to the limbs or members, of use in cases of fracture and contusion, applied in a bandage, and drunk; also for the gout (نِقْرِس), and spasmodic contraction (تَشَنُّج); and softens hardness of the joints; and improves the voice, and clears the throat and lungs; and excites to sexual intercourse. Some say, that it is the name of] the roots of the wild pomegranate; but this assertion is not of established authority. Others say, that it is a kind of سُورَنْجَان; and this is not improbable. The hakeem [Dáood] says, in the Tedhkireh, مغاث is [the name of] a certain plant in El-Kerej (الكرج) and the parts adjacent; roots extending deep into the earth, and thick, with a rind inclining to black and red, which, when peeled off, discloses a substance, between white and yellow: the best thereof is the heavy, sweet-scented, in taste inclining to sweet, with a slight bitterness. It is said to have rough, or coarse, and wide, leaves, like those of the radish; and a white flower; and seeds resembling the grains of the سُمْنَة, and called قلقل: hence it has been imagined to be the pomegranate: and it is said to be a species of سورنجان: its strength, or virtue, lasts about seven years: and there is a kind of it brought from 'Abbádán, and towards Syria, weak in operation; and it is this which is used in Egypt. (TA.) [M. Rouyer, in the Descr. de l'Egypte, tome 11 of the sec. ed., p. 452, describes it as follows: a root of a whitish colour, mucilaginous, fleshy, or pulpous, and of an aromatic odour: it is nutritive and aphrodisiac: it is taken in the simple substance; and they make of it a sherbet, which should be drunk hot: this root comes from the Indies.]

: see مَغِثٌ.