م ر س

See also: م ر ش

Arabic

Etymology

Probably from reanalysis of a one or more preformant derivations of ر س و (r-s-w), and some ideas may be derived from مَرَسَة (marasa, “rope, hawser”).

Root

م ر س • (m-r-s)

1. related to soaking and rubbing
2. related to practical experience

Derived terms

• Form I: مَرَسَ (marasa, “to steep, to soak, to macerate”)
  • Verbal noun: مَرْس (mars)
  • Active participle: مَارِس (māris)
  • Passive participle: مَمْرُوس (mamrūs)
• Form III: مَارَسَ (mārasa, “to practice”)
  • Verbal noun: مُمَارَسَة (mumārasa), مِرَاس (mirās)
  • Active participle: مُمَارِس (mumāris)
  • Passive participle: مُمَارَس (mumāras)
• Form V: تَمَرَّسَ (tamarrasa, “to rub; to have trouble or deal with; to pursue, to practice, to work in”)
  • Verbal noun: تَمَرُّس (tamarrus)
  • Active participle: مُتَمَرِّس (mutamarris)
  • Passive participle: مُتَمَرَّس (mutamarras)
• Form VI: تَمَارَسَ (tamārasa, “to struggle against each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَمَارُس (tamārus)
  • Active participle: مُتَمَارِس (mutamāris)

• مَرِس (maris, “contorted; experienced”)
• مَرِيس (marīs, “soaked dates”)
• مِرَاس (mirās) and مَرَاسَة (marāsa, “hardiness”)
• مَرَّاس (marrās, “sturdy breeding animal; fatiguing”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1192
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “م ر س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 168–169
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “م ر س”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1090–191
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “م ر س”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, pages 985–986
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “م ر س”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1059–1060