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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.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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