engl▪ MSḤ_1 ‘to anoint’ ↗masaḥa, ‘Messias’ ↗masīḥ, ‘Christendom’ ↗masīḥiyyaẗ
▪ MSḤ_2 ‘crocodile’ ↗timsāḥ (√TMSḤ)
▪ MSḤ_3 ‘…’ ↗… ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to wipe off, to caress; to anoint; to shake hands over a deal; flat barren land; to deceive by insincere words, insincere person, a lie; to travel in the land; to cut off, to smite’. – Some philologists classify al-Masīḥ under this root, while others recognise it as a borrowing from Hbr.