مَثْمَثَ

He saturated a wick with oil. (K.)

مَثْمَثَ, He immersed [a thing] in water. (K.)

-A2- مَثْمَثَ, (verbal noun مَثْمَثَةٌ, S, and مِثْمَاثٌ, S, K,) He mixed, or confounded. (S, K.) You say مثمث أَمْرَهُمْ He confounded their affair. (S.)

مَثْمَثَهُ He moved it, or shook it, about; (S, K;) like مَزْمَزَهُ: (As, S:) you say أَخَذَهُ فَمَثْمَثَهُ He took it, and moved it, or shook it, about, and went forwards and backwards with it. (S.)

A poet says,

ثُمَّ اسْتَحَثَّ ذَرْعَهُ اسْتِحْثَاثَا

نَكَفْتُ حَيْثُ مَثْمَثَ المِيْمَاثَا

i. e., I came upon his track: and [the case is, that] the viper makes its course confused: therefore the poet means, that he came upon (أَصَابَ) a confused track. (S, apparently from As.) [It seems to me, that he is speaking of the track of a viper.] مِثْمَاثٌ, with kesreh, is the verbal noun; and مَثْمَاثٌ, with fet-hah, is the subst. (S, K.) [By the subst., is here meant the ideal subst., or abstract noun, (like زَلْزَالٌ and قَلْقَال, as dis- tinguished from زِلْزَالٌ and قِلْقَالٌ,) signifying Mixture, or confusion.]

-A3- مَثْمَثُوا بِنَا, (K,) or مثمثوا بنا سَاعَةً, and ↓ تَمَثْمَثُوا, (TA,) i. q. لَثْلِثُوا. (K.)