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خُمُسٌ خمس and ↓ خُمْسٌ A fifth part; (Msb, K;) as also ↓ خَمِيسٌ , (S, in art. ثلث, and IAmb and Msb,) agreeably with a rule applicable in the case of every one of the units, except ثَلِيثٌ: (TA:) some allow this last; but AZ disallows it, and خميس also: (S in art. ثلث:) pl. أَخْمَاسٌ. (Msb, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, app.,] ضَرَبَ أَخْمَاسَهُ فِى أَسْدَاسِهِ He turned his five senses towards his six relative points; [namely, above, below, before, behind, right, and left:] an allusion to the collecting all the thoughts to examine a thing, and turning the attention in all directions. (MF.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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