مشتہي mushtahī A (part. act. VIII. of شہي) adj. Longing, desiring, wishing.

محتاج muḥtāj A (part. pass. VIII. of حوج Heb. ) adj. Necessitous, indigent, in want. A. P. محتاجي muḥtāj-ī, s. f. Indigence, poverty.

موٿهيا moṭh-iyā H s. m. A porter.

مستيسا mastīsā PORT. (perhaps from Portuguese mestíço) s. m. f. A mulatto, half Indian and half European.

مساوات musāwāt A (inf. III. of سوي Heb. and Aram. ) s. f. Equation, evenness, equality, parallelism, parallel.

مقيد muḳaiyad A (part. pass. II. of قيد) adj. Di- ligent, attentive, earnest, fixed, bound, fettered, in chains, imprisoned, strict, dedicated to, ad- dicted, noted, signed, registered.

مرثيه mars̤iya A (inf. of رثي) s. m. An elegy, a dirge, a funeral eulogium, particularly one sung during the muḥarram in commemoration of the descendants of Aﻌlī. مرثيه خوان mars̤iya- ḵẖẉān, A repeater of an elegy or of the mars̤iya. مرثيه خواني mars̤iya-ḵẖẉān-ī, Repeating, or singing an elegy or the mars̤iya.

موي mūʼe P s. m. Hair. موي نـﮩاني يا زهار يا عانه muʼe-nihānī, or-zihār, or-āﻌna, Hair (circa pubes).

مربع murabbaﻌ A (part. pass. II. of ربع Heb. ) adj. 1. Being four in number. 2. Square, quadrangular. 3. Sitting cross-legged (like a tailor). 4. Having a quartan ague. 5. s. A quatrain or stanza of four lines.

مـﮩاجرت muhājarat A (inf. III. of هجر) s. f. Se- paration, distance, desertion, flight, abandoning (a country).