مَزَحَ

, aorist مَزَحَ , verbal noun مَزْحٌ, (S, K,) and quasiinf. n. مُزَاحٌ and مُزاحَةٌ, (K,) [the latter like its synonym دُعَابَةٌ,] but Fei says that this last is مَزَاحَةٌ, (TA,) [and he mentions it as a verbal noun,] He jested or joked; (S, Msb, K;) opposite of جَدَّ [which signifies “ he was serious, or in earnest ” ”]: (M:) or he talked or behaved in a free and easy manner, with the view of blandishing and conciliating, without annoying; so that it excludes the meaning of mocking or ridiculing or deriding. (MF.)