مَرِىْءٌ

[The œsophagus, or gullet of a slaughtered camel, or sheep or goat, (S,) and of a man, (Zj, in his Khalk el-Insán,) the canal through which the food and drink pass; (S, K;) the head of the stomach; (K;) contiguous, (S,) or adherent (K) to the حُلْقُوم [or windpipe]; (S, K;) through which the food and drink pass, and by which they enter: (TA;) plural [of pauc.] أَمْرِيءَةٌ (K) and [of mult.] مُرُوءٌ. (S, K.) It is also written مَرِىٌّ. (TA.)

يَأْتِينا فِى مِثْلِ مَرِىْءِ النَّعَامِ [It comes to us as it were through the gullet of the ostrich]: a proverbial expression, from a tradition, alluding to paucity of food; the ostrich being particularized because of the slenderness of its neck, whence is inferred the narrowness of its gullet. (TA.)

Wholesome, &c. (See مَرُوءَ.)

هَنِيْيءًا مَرِيْيءًا: see article هنأ and see 1 in the present article

غَيْثٌ مَرِىْءٌ [A rain productive of good result]. (TA.)

كَلَأٌ مَرِىْءٌ Wholesome herbage. (K.)

أَرْضٌ مَرِيْيءَةٌ A land salubrious in its air. (K.)

مَرِىْءٌ Manly, &c. (See مَرُوءَ.)