م ر ح
See also: م ر خ, مرح, مرخ, مرج, مزح, مرچ, and م ز ح
Arabic
Etymology
Maybe extended from م ر ر (m-r-r) in the meaning “to elapse”. Compare ف ر ح (f-r-ḥ) for the derivation type.
Root
م ر ح • (m-r-ḥ)
- related to leaking
- related to joy, glee (i.e. gay emotion leaking)
Derived terms
- Form I: مَرِحَ (mariḥa, “to leak, to become weak; to be joyful, to be gleeful, to be merry, to rejoice”)
- Verbal noun: مَرَح (maraḥ)
- Active participle: مَارِح (māriḥ)
- Form II: مَرَّحَ (marraḥa, “to fill with water in order that the punctures of the stitches close up”)
- Verbal noun: تَمْرِيح (tamrīḥ)
- Active participle: مُمَرِّح (mumarriḥ)
- Passive participle: مُمَرَّح (mumarraḥ)
- Form IV: أَمْرَحَ (ʾamraḥa, “to make exult, to make rejoice”)
- Verbal noun: إِمْرَاح (ʾimrāḥ)
- Active participle: مُمْرِح (mumriḥ)
- Passive participle: مُمْرَح (mumraḥ)
- مِرَاح (mirāḥ, “condition of cheerfulness”)
- مَرِح (mariḥ, “gleeful, cheerful”)
- مِرِّيح (mirrīḥ, “gleeful, cheerful”)
- مِمْرَاح (mimrāḥ, “cheerful human”)
- مَرُوح (marūḥ, “lively, sprightly”)
- مَرِيحَة (marīḥa, “joy”)
- مَرَحَان (maraḥān, “mirth”)
References
- Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 1189
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “م ر ح”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 579
- Freytag, Georg (1837), “م ر ح”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 166–167
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “م ر ح”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2704–2705
- Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “م ر ح”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1998