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خمص

Root entry · 12 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to concepts of shrinking, emptiness, and hunger. It describes a wound subsiding, a hollow in the foot, a lean or hungry state, and a type of black garment.

Derived headwords

خَمَصَverb
  1. 1.
    hunger made him hollow from the root nasaraboth

    hunger made him hollow from the root nasara

الاخْمَصُnoun
  1. 1.
    what is recessed from the sole of the foot and does not touch the groundboth

    what is recessed from the sole of the foot and does not touch the ground

خَمْصَانadjective
  1. 1.
    leanboth

    A man who is lean or has a shrunken belly.

خَمِيصُ الحَشَاadjective
  1. 1.
    lean-belliedboth

    Describing someone with a shrunken or lean belly.

خِمَاصnoun
  1. 1.
    lean peopleboth

    The plural of a man who is lean or has a shrunken belly.

خَمِيصَةadjective
  1. 1.
    leanboth

    A woman who is lean or has a shrunken belly.

خَمْصَانَةadjective
  1. 1.
    leanboth

    A woman who is lean or has a shrunken belly.

الخُمْصَةnoun
  1. 1.
    with fatha: hungerboth

    with fatha: hunger

المَخْمَصَةnoun
  1. 1.
    famine, hungerboth

    famine, hunger

خَمَصَverb
  1. 1.
    hunger made him hollow from the root nasaraboth

    hunger made him hollow from the root nasara

مَخْمَصَةnoun
  1. 1.
    starvationboth

    The state of suffering from extreme hunger, a masdar of خمصه الجوع.

الخَمِيصَةnoun
  1. 1.
    black garmentclassical

    A square black garment, possibly with two marks or borders.

Parallel reading

خمص الجرح: لغة في حمص، أي سكن ورمه.
The wound subsided: a variant of 'hamasa', meaning its swelling subsided.
الاخمص: ما دخل من باطن القدم فلم يصب الأرض.
The arch of the foot: the part of the inner foot that does not touch the ground.
ورجل خمصان وخميص الحشا، أي ضامر البطن، والجمع خماص.
And a man is khamsan and khamis al-hasha, meaning lean-bellied, and the plural is khimas.
وامرأة خميصة وخمصانة، عن يعقوب.
And a woman is khamisa and khamsana, according to Ya'qub.
والخمصة: الجوعة.
And al-khamsa: hunger.
يقال: " ليس للبطنة خير من خمصة تتبعها ".
It is said: 'There is no good in gluttony followed by hunger.'
والمخمصة: المجاعة، وهو مصدر مثل المغضبة والمعتبة.
And al-makhmasa: famine, and it is a masdar like maghdaba and ma'taba.
وقد خمصه الجوع خمصا ومخمصة.
And hunger afflicted him with khamsan and makhmasa.
والخميصة: كساء أسود مربع له علمان.
And al-khameesa: a square black garment with two marks.
فإن لم يكن معلما فليس بخميصة.
If it does not have marks, it is not a khameesa.
شبه شعرها بالخميصة، والخميصة سوداء.
He likened her hair to the khameesa, and the khameesa is black.