מָאַס (b. h.; cmp. מסס) [to melt, faint,] (with ב) to be tired of, loathe; (with accus.) to cast away, reject. Ber. 8ᵃ אין הקב"ה מוֹאֵס בתפלתו וכ׳ the Lord never tires of the prayer of assemblies. Sifra B’ḥuck. ch. III, Par. 2 מואס באחרים despises others (for being his betters); (ib. מואס אחרים, corr. acc.). Tanḥ. Mishp. 11 כבר מָאֲסָן וכ׳ their god has rejected them; Ex. R. s. 31. Ib. אמת שמָאַסְתָּ וכ׳ is it true that thou hast rejected thy son?; a. fr.—Part. pass. מָאוּס, f. מְאוּסָה; pl. מְאוּסִים, מְאוּסִין; מְאוּסוֹת. Midr. Till. to Ps. LXXV, 9 (play on כמס, Deut. XXXII, 34) כמוס למאוסים reserved for the rejected (nations; differ. in Sifré Deut. 324). Der. Er. ch. II המ׳ בעיניהם those who are despised in their own eyes (think little of themselves); a. e.
Nif. - נִמְאָס to be repulsive, loathsome; to be rejected. Sifra B’ḥuck. Par. 2, ch. VIII (ref. to Lev. XXVI, 44) וכי … שלא נִמְאֲסוּ ושלא נגעלו what has been left to them so that (it might be said) they were not cast away and loathed?; Yalk. Lev. 675 (corr. acc.). Ḥag. 5ᵃ ונ׳ and becomes loathsome (creates aversion to his neighbor).—V. מִיאוּס.