Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry مكث
1 مَكَثَ, aor. مَكُثَ; and مَكُثَ, aor. مَكُثَ; inf. n. مَكْثٌ [with which مُكْثٌ and مِكثٌ (see below) are syn.] and مِكِّيثَى (S, K) [like خِصِّيصَى, q. v.,] and مِكِّيثَآءُ [like خِصِّيصَآءُ] and مَكَثٌ and مُكُوثٌ and مُكْثَانٌ (K) and مَكَاثٌ and مَكَاثَةٌ [which last is the inf. n. of مَكُثَ]; (TA;) He tarried; tarried and waited, or expected; (S, K;) was patient, and tarried, and waited, or expected: or he tarried, stayed, or stopped, expecting: loitered; tarried; stayed; waited; paused in expectation; فِى مَكَانٍ in a place. (TA.) [In like manner,] ↓ تمكّث He loitered; tarried; stayed; waited; paused in expectation. (S, K.) 5 تَمَكَّثَ see 1.
مُكْثٌ and ↓ مِكْثٌ, substs., from مَكَثَ or مَكُثَ, A tarrying; tarrying and waiting, or expecting; &c. (S, A.) مِكْثٌ: see مُكْثٌ.
مَكِيثٌ Grave: (S, K:) who does not hasten in his affair: pl. مُكَثَآءُ and مَكِيثُونَ. (TA.)
مَكِيثُ الكَلَامِ (tropical:) Slow of speech. (Ibn-Abi-l- Hadeed.)
Also مَكِيثٌ A man remaining; staying; abiding; remaining fixed, or stationary. (TA.) سَارَ الرَّجُلُ مُتَمَكِّثًا The man journeyed, or proceeded, loitering; syn. مُتَلَوِّمًا. (S.)
E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.
