مس

From the root م س س‎ (m-s-s).

مَسَّ • (massa) I, non-past يَمَسُّ‎‎ (yamassu)

1. (transitive) to feel, to touch
2. (transitive) to handle, to palpate
3. (transitive) to violate (something sacred)
4. (transitive) to infringe upon
5. (transitive, euphemistic) to cohabit with
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 19:20:

     ‏أَنَّى يَكُونُ لِي غُلَامٌ وَلَمْ يَمْسَسْنِي بَشَرٌ وَلَمْ أَكُ بَغِيًّا‎

     ʾannā yakūnu lī ḡulāmun walam yamsasnī bašarun walam ʾaku baḡiyyan

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

6. (transitive) to befall, to hit

• → French: masser
  • → English: massage
  • → German: massieren

مَسّ • (mass) m

1. verbal noun of مَسَّ (massa) (form I)
2. touching, touch
3. contact
4. misfortune, calamity
5. attack, fit, frenzy
6. insanity, madness

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “مس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 588
• Freytag, Georg (1837), “مس”, 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 176
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “مس”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1063

• emas
• mas
• امس‎

Shortened form of امس‎ (emas), from Sanskrit.

• IPA^(key): [mas]
• Rhymes: -mas, -as

مس (Rumi spelling mas‎)

1. Alternative form of امس‎

مس • (mes)

1. copper