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خمو

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concept of intensity, particularly in sound or strength. It also has a derived meaning referring to ordinal numbers.

Derived headwords

خَمَاverb
  1. 1.
    intensifiedclassical

    The verb indicates that something, such as a sound or milk, has become intense or strong.

خَمَا الصوتُverb
  1. 1.
    sound intensifiedclassical

    Specifically refers to a sound becoming intense or loud.

  2. 2.
    sound roseclassical

    Alternatively, it can mean that a sound rose or became elevated in pitch.

كأن صوت شخبها إذا خمى صوت أفاع في خشي أغشم — As if the sound of its dripping, when it intensified, was the sound of snakes in a fearful, dark place.
خَشِيَverb
  1. 1.
    fearedboth

    This verb means to fear or be apprehensive.

في خشي أغشم — in a fearful, dark place.
الخَامِيadjective
  1. 1.
    the fifthclassical

    This adjective refers to the ordinal number 'fifth'.

وهذا التابع الخامي — And this follower, the fifth.

Parallel reading

خما اللبن
The milk intensified.
خمى الصوت اشتد
The sound intensified.
وقيل: ارتفع
And it was said: it rose.
كأن صوت شخبها إذا خمى صوت أفاع في خشي أغشم
As if the sound of its dripping, when it intensified, was the sound of snakes in a fearful, dark place.
مضى ثلاث سنين منذ حل بها وعام حلت وهذا التابع الخامي
Three years passed since she settled there, and a year she settled, and this follower, the fifth.