مرخ

From the root م ر خ‎ (m-r-ḵ). Apparently all the words in this root are related to the plant name, also existing in Akkadian 𒎌 (MEŠ /miḫru/, “a fir tree”, “possibly Juniperus excelsa”), Ugaritic 𐎎𐎃𐎗 (mḫr, “a conifer”, only retained in a place-name), Persian مرخ‎ (marx), Armenian / Middle Armenian մարխ (marx), մախր (maxr), and potentially the plant name is from Hurrian 𒈠𒄴𒊑 (ma-aḫ-ri /māḫri/, “juniper”). Compare also Egyptian mrḥt (“anointing oil; castor oil”), from which Egyptian mrḥ (“to anoint”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic מְרַח‎ (mraḥ, “to smooth, to finish”), Hebrew מָרַח‎ (māraḥ, “to smear, to rub on, to spread”), Akkadian 𒈠𒊏𒆪 (/marāqu/, “to grind into a powder or crush into a paste; to rub on”), Shehri míreḵ (“to smear”), Arabic مَرَعَ‎ (maraʕa, “to anoint; to currycomb; to abound in herbage”), Aramaic מָרַק‎ (māraq, “to scour, to polish, to rub off”), Hebrew מָרַק‎ (māraq, “to scour, to polish”), Mehri amárqəḥ (“to clear, to wipe”). For another example where a root is from a plant name regard رِمْث‎ (rimṯ) but in this case there may be a contamination of the plant name with a genuine root related to anointing.

مَرَخَ • (maraḵa) I, non-past يَمْرَخُ‎‎ (yamraḵu)

1. to rub; to embrocate; to anoint

مَرَّخَ • (marraḵa) II, non-past يُمَرِّخُ‎‎ (yumarriḵu)

1. synonym of مَرَخَ (maraḵa)

مَرْخ • (marḵ) m

1. verbal noun of مَرَخَ (maraḵa) (form I)

مَرْخ • (marḵ) m (collective, singulative مَرْخَة‎ f (marḵa))

1. Leptadenia pyrotechnica

• Najdi Arabic: مرخ‎ (marḵ, “Leptadenia pyrotechnica”)

مَرِخ • (mariḵ)

1. slack, flaccid, soft

• Freytag, Georg (1837), “مرخ”, 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, page 167
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “مرخ”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2705
• Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 95, 104, 114–115, 238, 242–243
• Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2004), “A Botanical Snapshot of Ugaritic”, in Aula Orientalis‎, volume 22, issue 1, Barcelona, pages 115–116
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “مرخ”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1998

From Arabic مَرْخ‎ (marḵ).

مرخ (marḵ) m (singulative مرخة‎ (marḵa))

1. Leptadenia pyrotechnica

• مريخة‎ (“murayḵa”, diminutive)
• مريخي‎ (“mrēḵī”, Cornulaca arabica after the seeds have fallen)

Akin to Arabic مَرْخ‎ (marḵ).

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /maɾx/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /maɾx/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /mæɾx/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /maɾx/

مرخ • (marx)

1. a particular tree (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. the lower one of the two pieces of wood from which fire is struck by rubbing, the upper being called عفار‎ ('afâr), and both taking their names from the tree from which they are respectively cut

• → Middle Armenian: մարխ (marx)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “مرخ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “مرخ”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press