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خدم

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

أَخْدَمُ ذ i. q. ↓ مُخَدَّمُ, (S, Mgh, K,) as meaning, applied to a horse, (tropical:) Having a whiteness (S, Mgh) such as is termed تَحْجِيل (S) surrounding the pastern of each kind foot, (S Mgh,) above the parts next the hoof, and stopping short of the shank; (S;) but not in the fore foot: (S, Mgh: [see 2:]) or, so applied, whose تَحْجِيل encircles [ the pastern ] above the أَشَاعِر [or extremities next the hoof ]: or the latter epithet, so applied, whose whiteness passes beyond the pasterns or part thereof. (K.) And خَدْمَاآءُ, [fem. of أَخْدَمُ,] applied to a sheep or goat, (JK, S, K,) i. e. to a شَاة, (S, K,) (assumed tropical:) Having in the lower end of her shank a whiteness (JK, K) like the خَدَمَة [or anklet ], (JK,) upon blackness; or a blackness upon whiteness; and in like manner applied to a mountain-goat: (K:) or having white shanks; (AZ, S, K;) like حَجْلَاآءُ; [but see this latter word;] and so ↓ مُخَدَّمٌ applied to a mountain-goat: (S:) or having one white shank; the rest of her being black. (K.)

Derived headwords

أَخْدَمُ
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