حمض

حُمُوضةٌ حموضه حموضة [ Acidity; sourness; the quality of being sharp or biting to the taste; pungency; ] the taste of that which is termed حَامِض. (S, K.) [See 1.] الحُمُوضةُ is also explained as signifying That which bites the tongue; as the taste of vinegar, and of milk such as is termed حَازِر: which is extr., [if it be meant thereby that the word is thus used as an epithet to qualify a subst., or as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant, but I rather think that it is a loose way of explaining it as an inf. n. used as a simple subst.,] for [the measure] فُعُولَةٌ does not belong [save] to inf. ns. (TA: [in which the word اـِلَّا is evidently omitted by an oversight in transcription, and therefore has been supplied by me in rendering the passage.])