مکث maks̤, miks̤ A or muks̤, s. Delay.

مجادل mujādil A (part. act. III. of جدل Chald. ) adj. Contentious, disputant, quarrelsome.

مد madd A (Heb. and Aram. ) s. f. 1. Ex- tension, production, lengthening. 2. The flux of the sea, flood-tide. مد وجزر madd-o-jazr, Tide, the flux and reflux of the sea. 3. The mark (~) placed sometimes over alif, thus آ, when the letter is pronounced long and broad. 4. A peculiar mode of writing certain words in accounts. مد ظله madda z̤illu-hu, May his sha- dow, or power be extended. مد نظر madd-i-naz̤ar, or مد نگاه madd-i-nigāh, s. f. 1. Exten- sion or stretch of sight, as far as the eye can reach, the object of sight, regard, prospect, before the eyes, in view, in sight. 2. Kind looks, encouragement. ¶ mudd, A dry mea- sure equal to one and one third rat̤l, or according to others to two rat̤l.

معارف maʼāﻌrif A s. plur. (of معرفة) Knowledges.

مخطور maḵẖt̤ūr A (part. pass. of خطر) adj. Thought, imagined, conceived, supposed.

مـﮩمل muhmil A (part. act. IV. of همل Heb. ) adj. Negligent, careless, indolent.

مواحنت muʼāḥanat A (inf. III. of أحن) s. f. Hatred, dislike, enmity.

ملاٴي malāʼī H s. f. Cream. (Cream or milk in- spissated by boiling. Qanoon-e-islam).

مرتفع murtafaﻌ A or murtafiﻌ (part. pass. or act. VIII. of رفع) adj. Elevated, exalted, high, sublime, eminent, aggrandized. S. مرتک मृतक (r. मृ Die) mr̤itak, s. m. A dead body, a corpse.

مروه marwa A n. prop. Name of a mountain near Mecca.