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خَيْمَهٌ خيم خيمه خيمة , (S, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.,) with which ↓ خَيْمٌ is syn., (S, Msb,) [though said by some to be a pl., as will be seen below,] A بَيْت [here meaning booth, or the like,] (S, Msb, K,) of any kind (K) such as is built, or constructed, (S, Msb, K,) by the Arabs, (S, Msb,) of the branches of trees: (S, Msb, K:) so says As, holding that the خيمة is only of trees, and that otherwise it is called بَيْتٌ [q. v.]: but others hold that it is [a tent; i. e.] made with pieces of cloth and tent-ropes; because تَخْيِيمٌ signifies the “ remaining, staying, dwelling, or abiding; ” wherefore it is thus called, as being used on the occasion of alighting: (IB, TA:) this latter is the meaning commonly known; but accord. to the saying of As, it is tropical: (TA:) or, accord. to IAar, it is applied by the Arabs only to a construction of four poles roofed over with ثُمَام [or panic grass]; and is not of cloths; (Mgh, Msb, TA;) the مِظَلَّة, he says, being of cloths and of other things: or i. q. مِظَلَّة: (TA:) accord. to AHát, the same as the Persian خَرْ پُشْتَهْ [lit. “ ass's back; ” like the French “ dos d'âne; ” meaning a high-pitched span-roof]: (Mgh:) or any round بَيْت [which may here mean either booth or tent]: or three poles, or four, over which is laid ثُمَام; by means of which one is shaded in the heat: (K:) or poles set up, with rafters laid across, covered with trees; so that it is cooler than are أَخْبِيَة [pl. of خِبَآء]: or poles upon which خِيَام [pl. of خَيْمٌ] are constructed: or a construction of trees and palmbranches with their leaves upon them, which a man uses for shade when he brings his camels to water: and applied by the Arabs to a بَيْت [or tent &c.], and a place of abode [in an absolute sense]: (TA:) the pl. of خَيْمَةٌ is خَيْمَاتٌ and خِيَمٌ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ خَيْمٌ , (K,) or this last is [a coll. gen. n., or] syn. with خَيْمَةٌ, (S, Msb,) and خِيَامٌ, (K,) or this is pl. of ↓ خَيْمٌ , (S, Msb,) and is applied also to (tropical:) [women's vehicles of the kind called] هَوَادِج; these being likened to خِيَام [properly so termed]. (TA.) It is said in a trad., الشَّهِيدُ فِى خَيْمَةِ ا@للّٰهِ تَحْتَ العَرْشِ (assumed tropical:) [The martyr is in the tabernacle of God, beneath the empyrean: this signification of خيمة being perhaps taken from the phrase ἡ σκηνὴ τοῦ θεοῦ in Rev. xxi. 3]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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