المريخ

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

  • IPA(key): /al.mir.riːx/

Proper noun

اَلْمِرِّيخ • (al-mirrīḵ) m

  1. (astronomy) the planet Mars
    اَلْمِرِّيخُ هُوَ ٱلْكَوْكَبُ ٱلرَّابِعُ فِي ٱلْبُعْدِ عَنِ ٱلشَّمْسِ فِي ٱلنِّظَامِ ٱلشَّمْسِيِّ وَهُوَ ٱلْجَارُ ٱلْخَارِجِيُّ لِلْأَرْضِ وَيُصَنَّفُ كَوْكَبًا صَخْرِيًّا، مِنْ مَجْمُوعَةِ ٱلْكَوَاكِبِ ٱلْأَرْضِيَّةِ.
    al-mirrīḵu huwa l-kawkabu r-rābiʕu fī l-buʕdi ʕani š-šamsi fī n-niẓāmi š-šamsiyyi wahuwa l-jāru l-ḵārijiyyu lilʔarḍi wayuṣannafu kawkaban ṣaḵriyyan, min majmūʕati l-kawākibi l-ʔarḍiyyati.
    Mars is the fourth planet in distance from the Sun in the Solar System and it is Earth's external neighbor and is classified as a rocky planet from the group of the Terrestrial Planets.

Declension

Synonyms

Descendants

  • South Levantine Arabic: المريخ (il-marrīḵ)
  • Classical Syriac: ܡܰܪܪܻܝܟ (marrīḵ)
  • Persian: مریخ (merrix)
  • Swahili: Mirihi
  • Tatar: Merih

See also

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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