مِزْجُ شَىْءٍ

1.
, and مِزَاجُهُ, What is mixed, or mingled, with a thing; its admixture. (TA.)
2.
الشَّرَابِ مِزَاجُ What is mixed with mine, or a beverage. (S, K.) الخَمْرِ كَافُورٌ مِزَاجُ [see Qur'an, lxxvi., 5,] The odour, not the taste, of the wine is [like] camphor. (TA.)
3.
البَدَنِ مِزَاجُ [The constitution, or temperament, of the body;] the aggregate natural constituents (طَبَايءِعُ) with which the body is composed; (S, K;) i. e. the four humours of the body; namely, black bile [السَّوْدَاءُ], yellow bile [الصَّفْرَاءُ], (المِرَّتَانِ), phlegm (البَلْغَمُ), and blood (الدَّمُ). (TA) Pl. أَمْزِجَةٌ. (Msb.) You say, هُوَ صَحِيحُ المِزَاجِ, and فَاسِدُهُ, He is of sound, and of unsound, constitution, or temperament: meaning the humours of the body. And أَمْزِجَةُ النِّسَاءِ مُخْتَلِفَةٌ The constitutions, or temperaments, of women are discordant, or various. (A.)
4.
مِزْجٌ (As, K, &c.) and مَزْجٌ, (Az, S, &c.,) or the latter is erroneous, or a word of weak authority, (K,) Honey: (S, K:) or honey in the comb; synonym شَهْدٌ: (T:) so called because every sweet beverage is mixed with it. (AHn.)
5.
Also, Water with which wine is mixed. (TA.)
6.
مِزْجٌ The bitter almond; as also مَزِيجٌ: see لَوْزٌ (K:) but IDrd doubts of its correctness; and it is said to be correctly مُنْج [which is Persian]. (TA.)

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