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masaka

seize, hold

مَسَكَ

Word

Verb · Form I

Root

م س ك

Forms

Present
يَمْسُكُ
Verbal noun
مَسْك

In the library

قال: ابغ لي سلماً وثيقاً وامسكه امساكاً رفيقاً ولا بأس علي، فقال له: لو كنت تركت الفضول يوماً لتركته الساعة وأنت في الخرا إلى الحلق.

Tales of Fools and Simpletons, page 23 →
Conjugation
Person PastPresentCommand
he هُوَ مَسَكَيَمْسُكُ—
she هِيَ مَسَكَتتَمْسُكُ—
they two (m.) هُما مَسَكايَمْسُكانِ—
they two (f.) هُما مَسَكَتاتَمْسُكانِ—
they (m.) هُمْ مَسَكُوايَمْسُكُونَ—
they (f.) هُنَّ مَسَكْنَيَمْسُكْنَ—
you (m.) أَنْتَ مَسَكْتَتَمْسُكُإِمْسِكْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ مَسَكْتِتَمْسُكِينَإِمْسِكِي
you two أَنْتُما مَسَكْتُماتَمْسُكانِإِمْسِكَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ مَسَكْتُمتَمْسُكُونَإِمْسِكُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ مَسَكْتُنَّتَمْسُكْنَإِمْسِكْنَ
I أَنا مَسَكْتُأَمْسُكُ—
we نَحْنُ مَسَكْنانَمْسُكُ—

From the same root

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • يُمْسِكُ الرَّمَقَ Form I Open entry
    : see art. رمق.
  • مَسَّكَ بِالنَّارِ Form II Open entry
    : see ثقّب.
  • أَمْسَكَ Form IV He retained; he withheld
    He retained; he withheld. (Msb.) ― -b2- He maintained: he was tenacious, or niggardly. ― -b3- He, or it, held fast a thing: and arrested it. ― -b4- أَمْسَكَهُ He held, retained, detained, restrained, stayed, confined, imprisoned, or withheld, him. (K.) ― -b5- أَمْسَكَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ He held, refrained, or abstained, from the thing. (Msb.) ― -b6- أَمْسَكَهُ He grasped it, clutched it, laid hold upon it; or seized it, (قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ) بِيَدِهِ with his hand: (Msb:) or he took it; or took it with his hand, (أَخَذَهُ,) namely, a rope, &c.: (Mgh:) or he held, or clung, to it: (TA:) [as also بِهِ ↓ تَمَسكَ]. Also, أَمْسَكَ بِهِ signifies [the same; or] he laid hold upon, or seized, somewhat of his body, or what might detain him, as an arm or a hand, or a garment, and the like: but أَمْسَقَهُ may signify he withheld him, or restrained him, from acting according to his own free will. (Mugh, art. بِ.) ― -b7- أَمْسَكَ بَطْنَهُ [It bound, or confined, his belly (or bowels)]: said of medicine. (S, O, Msb, K; all in art. عقل.) ― -b8- الإِمْسَاك, in relation to تَحْجِيل: see an unusual application of it in art. طلق, conj. 4.
  • تَمَسَّكَ Form V He held fast by his covenant
    see 4 and 8. ― -b2- تَمَسَّكَ بِحَبْلِهِ He held fast by his covenant: see أَعْصَمَ.
  • تَمَاسَكَ Form VI He withheld, or restrained, himself
    He withheld, or restrained, himself: (PS:) he was able, or powerful; as also تَمَالَكَ, q. v. (KL.) ― -b2- مَا تَمَاسَكَ أَنْ فَعَلَ كَذَا He could not restrain himself from doing so; syn. مَا تَمَالكَ. (S.) ― -b3- تَمَاسَكَ It held together. ― -b4- إِنَّهُ لَذُو تَمَاسُكٍ (assumed tropical:) Verily he possesses intelligence. (TA.) And مَابِهِ تَمَاسُكٌ (tropical:) There is no good in him. (TA.) See مُسْكَةٌ.
  • اِمْتَسَكَ بِهِ Form VIII He clutched, or griped, him, or it; i. q
    He clutched, or griped, him, or it; i. q. بِهِ ↓ تَمَسَّكَ. (MA.)
  • اِسْتَمْسَكَ البَطْنُ Form X The belly
    [The belly (or bowels) became bound, or confined]. (TA in art. عقل.) ― -b2- اِسْتَمْسَكَ بِهِ [sometimes] He sought to lay hold upon it. (Bd, in ii. 257.) ― -b3- اِسْتَمْسَكَ: see an ex. voce صِرْعَةٌ.
  • مِسْكٌ Musk
    [Musk: it is obtained from the muskdeer, moschus moschiferus; being found in the male animal, in a vesicle near the navel and prepuce.] It is masc. and fem. (IAmb, TA voce ذَكِىٌّ.)
  • مَسَكٌ Tortoise-shell
    Tortoise-shell; syn. ذَبْلٌ: (K:) bracelets made of tortoise-shell (ذَبْلٌ), or of عاج [ivory]: (S, Msb:) bracelets and anklets made of horn and of عاج: n. un. with مُسْكَةٌ. (K.)
  • مُسْكَةٌ Intelligence
    Intelligence: (Msb:) or full intelligence, (K, TA,) and judgment; judgment and intel-ligence to which one has recourse; as also مُسْكٌ, not ↓ مَسِيكٌ, as in the K; (TA;) i. q. تَمَاسُكٌ. (Mgh.) You say, لَيْسَ لَهُ مُسْكَةٌ He has no intel-ligence. (Msb.) ― -b2- لَيْسَ بِهِ مُسْكَةٌ He has no strength. (Msb.)
  • مُسْكَانٌ Open entry
    : see art. سكن.
  • مِسَاكٌ needles
    or مَسَاكٌ A kind of needles: see مِدَادٌ.

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