engl▪ MRǦ_1 ‘grass-covered steppe, pasture, meadow’ ↗marǧ
▪ MRǦ_2 ‘disorder, confusion, tumult’ ↗maraǧ
▪ MRǦ_3 ‘pearl, coral’ ↗marǧān♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘open space, pasture land, to pasture; to shoot out, branches, to be convoluted, to be obscure; bright, smokeless flame, a bright tongue of fire, to exaggerate; coral; small pearls’. The word marǧān, which philologists classify under this root, is an early borrowing into Ar from Pers, perhaps through Aram.