مَرَثَ

, (aorist مَرُثَ , verbal noun مَرْثٌ, S,) He steeped dates in water, and mashed them (S, K) with the hand; (S;) synonym مَرَسَ: (S, K;) sometimes مَرَذَ is also used in this sense. (S.)

مَرَثَ, (aorist مَرُثَ , verbal noun مَرْثٌ, TA,) He made a thing soft, (K,) so that it became of such a subsistence that it might be supped, and then supped it. (TA.)

مَرَثَ, (aorist مَرُثَ , and مَرِثَ , verbal noun مَرْثٌ, TA,) He steeped, soaked, or macerated, a thing in water: (K:) he soaked bread in water; as also مَرَذَ. (Sh, As.) مَرَثَ He steeped medicine &c. in water until it became altered. (A.)

مَرَثَ, [aorist مَرُثَ ,] He (a child, S,) mumbled, or bit softly, his finger: (S, K:) he (a child) bit with his gums: he (a child) bit and sucked a necklace, or string of beads, such as is called سَخَابٌ. (TA.)

مَرَثَ, aorist مَرُثَ , and مَرِثَ , (verbal noun مَرْثٌ, TA,) He [a child] sucked the kind of shells called cowries. (K.)

He sucked. (IAar.)

He (a child) sucked his mother's breast. (IAar.)

مَرِثَ, aorist مَرَثَ , (verbal noun مَرَثٌ, (IAar,) He was mild and forbearing, or clement; and patient in bearing altercation. (K, TA.)

-A2- مَرَثَ, [aorist مَرُثَ ,] He beat, or struck, or smote, a man: (K:) or, according to A'Obeyd, مرَثَ بِهِ الأَرْضَ, and ↓ مرّث, he threw him, or flung him, upon the ground: or, according to Fr, the verb is مَرَنَ. (TA.)

-A3- مَرَثَ السَّخْلَةَ, aorist مَرُثَ , (L,) and ↓ مرّثها, He imparted to the lamb, or kid, a foul smell, of sweat, or grease, or the like, so that its mother would not take to it: (K:) he rendered it foul and greasy with his hand, so that its mother would not suckle it: (Ibn-Jo'eyl El-Kelbee:) he befouled it by stroking it with hands defiled by the smell of flesh-meat or fish, so that its mother would not take to it. (El-Mufaddal Ed-Dabbee.)

Also, مَرَثَ He defiled water, by putting into it his hands foul with flesh-meat, or grease, or the like. (TA, from a tradition)