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Root entry · 13 derived lemmas

This root primarily denotes baseness, worthlessness, and lowliness, applying to people, things, and their qualities. It also encompasses the idea of being rejected, cast out, or insignificant.

Derived headwords

الخَسِيلadjective
  1. 1.
    base, vileboth

    The base or vile one from everything.

خَسَائِلnoun
  1. 1.
    vile ones, base thingsboth

    Plural of الخسيل, referring to the base or vile ones from everything.

خِسَالnoun
  1. 1.
    vile ones, base thingsboth

    Another plural of الخسيل, referring to the base or vile ones from everything.

خُشَارَةnoun
  1. 1.
    dregs, refuseclassical

    The refuse or worthless part of a group of people.

المُخْسِلadjective
  1. 1.
    rejected, baseclassical

    One who is rejected, despised, or base.

المَخْسُولadjective
  1. 1.
    rejected, baseclassical

    One who is rejected, despised, or base.

المُحَسِّلadjective
  1. 1.
    rejected, baseclassical

    One who is rejected, despised, or base.

المَحْسُولadjective
  1. 1.
    rejected, baseclassical

    One who is rejected, despised, or base.

الخَسْلnoun
  1. 1.
    base ones, weak onesboth

    The base, vile, or weak individuals.

الخَسَالnoun
  1. 1.
    base ones, weak onesboth

    The base, vile, or weak individuals.

خَسَلَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to reject, to cast outclassical

    To reject, to cast out, or to expel someone or something.

خَسَالَةnoun
  1. 1.
    dregs, worthless partclassical

    The dregs, the worthless, or the inferior part of anything.

الخَسْلnoun
  1. 1.
    base ones, vile onesclassical

    The base or vile ones.

Parallel reading

الخسيل كأمير: الرذل من كل شيء.
Al-khasīl (like amīr): the base one from everything.
ج: خسائل، وخسال بالكسر، والأولى نادرة.
Plural: khasā'il, and khisāl (with kasra), and the first is rare.
أيضا: خشارة القوم، والمخسل كمعظم والمخسول: المزذول
Also: the refuse of the people, and al-mukhsil (like muʿẓam) and al-makhsūl: the despised one.
وكذلك المحسل والمحسول، عن الأصمعي
And likewise al-muḥsil and al-maḥsūl, from Al-Aṣmaʿī.
ذي رأيهم والعاجز المخسل
Possessor of their opinion, and the incapable, the rejected one.
ونحن الثريا وجوزاؤها ... ونحن الذراعان والمرزم
And we are the Pleiades and its belt... And we are the two arms and the star Al-Marzim.
وأنتم كواكب مخسولة ... ترى في السماء ولا تعلم
And you are rejected stars... seen in the sky but not known.
الخسل والخسال كسكر وزمان: الأرذال والضعفاء.
Al-khasl and al-khasāl (like sukkār and zamān): the base ones and the weak ones.
وخسله خسلا: نفاه.
And he rejected him (khasalahu) with rejection (khaslan): he cast him out.
والخسالة بالضم: الحسالة وهو الرديء من كل شيء، عن ابن الأعرابي
And al-khasālah (with damma): the dregs, which is the inferior of everything, from Ibn Al-Aʿrābī.
هو من خسيلتهم: أي من خشارتهم.
He is from their baseness: meaning from their refuse.
والخسل، بالضم: الأرذال.
And al-khasl (with damma): the base ones.