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)

1. related to leaking
2. 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 (ʔamraḥa, “to make exult, to make rejoice”)
  • Verbal noun: إِمْرَاح (ʔimrāḥ)
  • 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, →ISBN, page 1189
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “م ر ح”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (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^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 166–167
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “م ر ح”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2704–2705
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “م ر ح”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1998