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خسء
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaخَاسِئٌ ذ , applied to a dog, and to a swine, (K,) and to a devil, (TA,) Driven away, repelled, and not suffered to come near to men. (K, TA.) ― -b2- And [hence,] (assumed tropical:) Contemptible, despicable, vile, or abject. (TA.) ― -b3- Applied to the sight, (tropical:) Dazzled, or confused, (S, TA,) and dim. (TA.) So in the words of the Kur [lxvii. 4], يَنْقَلِبُ اـِلَيْكَ البَصَرُ خَاسِئًا (tropical:) [ The sight will recoil to thee dazzled, or confused, or dim ]: (S, TA:) or the meaning here is (assumed tropical:) contemptible: or withdrawing far away: or it is of the measure فَاعِلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, [meaning repelled far away, ] like عِيشَةٍ رَاضِيَةٍ, in the Kur [lxix. 21 and ci. 5], for مَرْضِيَّةٍ. (TA.)
Derived headwords
خَاسِئٌ
- 1.
يَنْقَلِبُ اـِلَيْكَ البَصَرُ
عِيشَةٍ رَاضِيَةٍ