المريخ
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Arabic
Etymology
From the root م ر خ (m r ḵ), meaning "to rub", "to leak sap (especially flammable oils)", "to anoint or cover in oil", "to rub together flammable branches"; stemming from the red color of the planet being associated with fire, a conception found in archaic synonyms as well.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
الْمِرِّيخ • (al-mirrīḵ) m
Declension
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | — | الْمِرِّيخ al-mirrīḵ |
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Nominative | — | الْمِرِّيخُ al-mirrīḵu |
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Accusative | — | الْمِرِّيخَ al-mirrīḵa |
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Genitive | — | الْمِرِّيخِ al-mirrīḵi |
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Declension of noun الْمِرِّيخ (al-mirrīḵ)
Synonyms
- المُحَرِّق (al-muḥarriq, “the burner, the burning one>”)
- عَزِيزَان (ʕazīzān, “the most powerful, strongest, the most intense”)
- الأَحْمَر (al-ʔaḥmar, “the red one”)
- النَحْسَانِ (an-naḥsāni, “the two misfortunes”), paired with Saturn, contrasted with Venus and Mercury, or Venus and Jupiter in another tradition
- النَحْس الأَصْغَر (an-naḥs al-ʔaṣḡar, “the lesser misfortune”), contrasted with Saturn the greater
Derived terms
- مِرِّيخِيّ (mirrīḵiyy)
Descendants
- South Levantine Arabic: المريخ (il-marrīḵ)
- → Azerbaijani: Mərrix
- → Central Kurdish: مەریخ (merîx)
- → Kurdish: Merîx
- → Classical Persian: مِرِّیخ (mirrīx)
- → Classical Syriac: ܡܰܪܪܻܝܟ (marrīḵ)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مریخ (Merrîh)
- → Malay: Marikh
- → Indonesian: Marikh
- → Swahili: Mirihi, Murihi, Meriki
- → Tatar: Мәрих (Märix)
- → Turkmen: Myrryh
- → Uyghur: مېرىخ (mërix)
- → Uzbek: Mirrix
See also
- planets of the Solar System: كَوَاكِب الْمَجْمُوعَة الشَّمْسِيَّة (kawākib al-majmūʿa aš-šamsiyya): عُطَارِد (ʕuṭārid) · الزُّهَرَة (az-zuhara) · الْأَرْض (al-ʔarḍ) · الْمِرِّيخ (al-mirrīḵ) · الْمُشْتَرِي (al-muštarī) · زُحَل (zuḥal) · أُورَانُوس (ʾuranōs) · نِبْتُون (nebtūn) [edit]
Further reading
- Freytag, Georg (1837) “المريخ”, 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
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