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The modern meaning seems to have evolved from an earlier value ‘strong, energetic’. The adj. therefore belongs to the complex of ‘strength, power, force, effort, energy’ treated under ↗marāsaẗ and is of course related to vb. III, ↗mārasa ‘to practice’.

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↗marāsaẗ, ↗mārasa, ↗MRS. Cf. also ↗tamarrasa [v2].

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In ClassAr, a maris is ‘strong’ man, and from the strength or vehemence ‘in labour or exertion’ is derived the idea of being ‘experienced in affairs’, of having ‘laboured, or exerted [o.s.], in the management, or transaction, thereof’ (Lane vii 1885). From here, the step to the modern meaning is only natural.

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► ^BP#1393mārasa, vb. III, to exercise, pursue, practice (s.th., esp., a profession); (intr.) to practice, have or operate a practice; to carry on, ply (s.th., e.g., seafaring); to apply o.s. (to s.th.), go in for: applicative.
► ^BP#988mumārasaẗ, n.f., pursuit, exercise, practicing (of a profession); execution, implementation; practical application; pl. ‑āt, practice; experience, routine; (eg.) negotiation, treaty: vn. III, applicative.

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