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خمص

1 خَمِصَتِ القَدَمُ خمصت القدم , aor. خَمَصَ , inf. n. خَمَصٌ, The man's foot rose from the ground, [or was hollow in the middle of the sole,] so that it did not touch it. (Msb.) ― -b2- خَمَصَ البَطْنُ, (A, K,) aor. خَمُصَ ; (TK;) and خَمِصَ, aor. خَمَصَ ; and خَمُصَ, aor. خَمُصَ ; (A, K, TK;) inf. n. خمص [i. e. خَمْصٌ or خُمْصٌ or probably both] and خُمُوصٌ and مَخْمَصَةٌ; (TK;) The belly was, or became, empty; (A, K, TK;) i. e., hungry: (TK:) [and lank: see خَمِيصٌ.] And خَمُصَ الشَّىْءُ, aor. خَمُصَ , (Msb,) inf. n. خُمْصٌ (Msb, TA) and خَمْصٌ (A, TA) and مَخَمَصَةٌ, (S, A, Msb, * K,) the last an inf. n. like مَغْبَضَةٌ and مَعْتَبَةٌ, (S,) [but in art. عتب in the S, مَعْتَبَةٌ is said to be a subst.,] The thing was, or became, hungry. (S, * A, * Msb, K. *) -A2- خَمَصَهُ الجُوعُ, (S, K,) aor. خَمُصَ , (TK,) inf. n. خَمْصٌ and مَخْمَصَةٌ (S, K) and خُمُوصٌ, (TK, [but this last I think doubtful,]) Hunger rendered him lank in the belly. (TK.) 6 تخامص عَنْهُ تخامص عنه تخامص عنة (tropical:) He shrank, or drew away, from it; (A, K; *) i. e., from anything of which he disliked the nearness. (A.) You say, مَسَسْتُهُ بِيَدِى وَهْىَ بَارِدَةٌ فَتَخَامَصَ مِنْ بَرْدِ يَدِى (tropical:) [I touched him with my hand, it being cold, and he shrank from the coldness of my hand]. (A, TA.) ― -b2- تَخَامَصْ لِفُلَانٍ عَنْ حَقِّهِ (tropical:) [Relinquish thou, i. e.,] give thou, to such a one, his right, or due. (A, K. *) ― -b3- تخامص اللَّيْلُ (tropical:) [The night retreated;] the darkness of the night became thin a little before daybreak. (A, K.) خَمْصَةٌ خمصه خمصة A hungering. (S, K.) You say, لَيْسَ لِلْبَطْنَةِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ خَمْصَةٍ تَتْبَعُهَا [There is not anything better for repletion of the belly than a hungering which follows it]. (S, A.) خَمْصَى خمصى خمصي : see خَمِيصٌ. خُمْصَانٌ خمصان : see أَخْمَصُ: ― -b2- and see also خَمِيصٌ, in two places. خَمَصَانٌ خمصان : see خَمِيصٌ. خَمِيصٌ خميص Empty; applied to the belly: (TA:) hungry. (Msb.) ― -b2- خَمِيصُ البَطْنِ, (A,) or خَمِيصُ الحَشَا, (S, K,) and ↓ خُمْصَانٌ , (S, A, K,) and ↓ خَمَصَانٌ , (A, K,) A man empty in the belly, (A,) or lank in the belly; (S, K;) as also ↓ خَامِصٌ البَطْنِ: (K * and TA in art. رهف:) and slender in make: (TA:) fem. of the first with ة, (S, A, K,) and so of the second, (Yaakoob, S, A, K,) and so of the third; (TA;) and IAar mentions ↓ خَمْصَى as a fem., occurring prefixed to الحَشَا in a verse of El-Asamm Ed-Dubeyree: (TA:) pl., (S, A, K,) masc., (A, K,) خِمَاصٌ; (S, A, K;) and fem., [i. e., of خميصة,] خَمَائِصُ: (A, K:) ↓ خُمْصَانٌ has no pl. formed by the addition of و and ن, though its fem. is formed by the addition of ة; being made to accord with the measure فَعْلَانٌ, of which the fem. is فَعْلَى. (TA.) خِمَاصٌ [also] signifies Hungry, in a pl. sense, (K,) and lank in the bellies: (TA:) ↓ مِخْمَاصٌ also signifies the same as خَمِيصٌ; and [its pl.] مَخَامِيصُ, lank in the bellies (خُمْصُ البُطُونِ [whence it appears that ↓ أَخْمَصُ , sing. of خُمْصٌ, is also syn. with خَمِيصٌ]). (TA.) You say also, هُوَ خَمِيصُ البَطْنِ مِنْ أَمْوَالِ النَّاسِ, meaning (tropical:) He is one who abstains from [devouring] the possessions of men. (A.) And خِمَاصُ البُطُونِ مِنْ أَمْوَالِ النَّاسِ خِفَافُ الظُّهُورِ مِنْ دَمَائِهِمْ, (A, TA,) meaning (tropical:) Persons who abstain from [devouring] the possessions of men, whose backs are light with respect to [the] burden [of their blood]. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b3- زَمَنٌ خَمِيصٌ (tropical:) A time of hunger. (A, TA.) خَمِيصَةٌ خميص خميصه خميصة A [garment of the kind called] كِسَآء, black, square, and having عَلَمَانِ [i. e. two ornamental or coloured or figured borders]: (S, A, Mgh, K:) or a black كساء, having a border such as is above described (مُعْلَم) at each end, and which is of خَزّ, [q. v.], or of wool: (Msb:) if not bordered, it is not so called: (S, Msb:) or, accord. to As, a مُلَآءَة of wool, or of خَزّ, bordered (مُعْلَمَة); not unless bordered: so called because of its softness and thinness, and smallness of bulk when it is folded: Ahmad Ibn-Fáris says that it is the black كِسَآء: and he says that it may be thus called because a man wraps himself with it, so that it is against his أَخْمَص, meaning by this his waist: (Har p. 21:) pl. خَمَائِصُ: or خمائص are garments of خَزّ, thick, black, and red, and having thick أَعْلَام [or borders such as above described]; worn by people of old. (TA.) El-Aashà says, “ إِِذَا جُرِّدَتْ يَوْمًا حَسِبْتَ خَمِيصَةً
عَلَيْهَا وَ جِرْيَالَ النَّضِيرِ الدُّلَامِصَا
” [When she is stripped of her clothing, any day, thou wouldst think there was upon her a khameesah, and the glistening redness of gold]: As says, he likens her [long and spreading] hair to a خميصة, which is black. (S.) [See also خَمِيسٌ, voce خِمْسٌ, near the end of the paragraph.] خَامِصُ البَطْنِ خامص البطن : see خَمِيصٌ. أَخْمَصُ القَدَمِ ذ A man whose foot rises from the ground, [or is hollow in the middle of the sole,] so that it does not touch it: fem. خَمْصَآءُ: and pl. خُمْصٌ: (Msb:) and ↓ خُمْصَانٌ signifies having the middle of the sole of the foot moderately rising from the ground; which is a goodly quality; but when it is flat, or rises much, it is dispraised: so explained by IAar when he was asked by Th respecting 'Alee's saying of Mohammad, [cited, but not explained, in the K,] كَانَ خُمْصَانَ الأَخْمَصَيْنِ: or, accord. to Az, خُمْصَانٌ signifies having the part [of the sole] of the foot which does not cleave to the ground in treading very much retiring from the ground. (TA.) ― -b2- الأَخْمَصُ [when without the article ال also written without tenween accord. to the best authorities, because the quality of an epithet is original to it, and that of a subst. is accidental,] also signifies The part [of the sole] of the human foot which does not cleave to the ground in treading; (Az, TA;) the part of the sole of the human foot which is hollow, so that it does not touch the ground; (S, K; *) the part of the bottom of the human foot which is thin, and retires from the ground; or, as some explain it, [meaning the same,] the خَصْر of the human foot: (TA:) pl. أَخَامِصُ. (Msb.) ― -b3- See also خَمِيصٌ. ― -b4- Also The waist of a man. (Har p. 21.) مِخْمَاصٌ مخماص : see خَمِيصٌ.

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