خس

خَسِيسٌ خسيس , applied to a man, and to a lot or portion or share, (S, A, K,) or a thing, (Msb, TA,) Low or ignoble, base, vile, mean or sordid, weak; (S, A, K;) [or, more commonly,] contemptible; (A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ مُسْتَخِسٌّ and ↓ مُسْتَخَسٌّ; (K;) and, applied to a thing, also, paltry, or inconsiderable; and so ↓ خُسَاسٌ and ↓ مَخْسُوسٌ; bad, corrupt, abominable, or disapproved: (TA:) fem. with ة: (Mgh, Msb:) pl. masc. أَخِسَّاآءُ and خِسَاسٌ (Msb, TA) and أَخِسَّةٌ; (A;) pl. fem. خَسَائِسُ. (Mgh, Msb.) ― -b2- حَظٌّ خَسِيسٌ, and ↓ مَخْسُوسٌ, (tropical:) A low, or mean, fortune, that is not held in any estimation. (A.) ― -b3- هُوَ لَا يَدْخُلُ فِى خِسَاسِ الأُمُورِ (tropical:) [ He will not enter into low, mean, or contemptible, affairs ]. (A.) ― -b4- خَسِيسٌ is also applied to A disbeliever, an unbeliever, or infidel. (TA.)