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مَخْزُومٌ مخزوم Anything pierced or perforated: (S, Mgh:) applied in this sense, (JK,) or as meaning pierced and tied, (TA, [see 1,]) to the [thong, of a sandal, called] شِرَاك; (JK, TA;) or, thus applied, it means cut. (Ham p. 166.) See also 1, first sentence, for its meaning as applied to a letter. ― -b2- Any animal having the nose pierced. (Msb.) And ↓ إِِبِلٌ خَزْمَى means Camels having rings such as are termed خَزَائِم (pl. of خِزَامَة) in their nostrils; (IAar, K, TA;) as also ↓ مُخَزَّمَةٌ . (IAar, TA.) All birds, also, are said to be مَخْزُومَة, (S, K,) and ↓ مُخَزَّمَة ; (K;) because perforated in the partition between the nostrils: (S, K:) and particularly the ostrich is said to be مَخْزُوم (S, K *) and ↓ مُخَزَّم . (JK, K. *) One says, ↓ مَاهُمْ إِِلَّا كَا@لْأَنْعَامِ المُخَزَّمَةِ , meaning (tropical:) They are none others than stupid, or foolish, persons. (TA. [But كَا@لْأَنْعَامِ is app., here, a mistranscription for كَا@لنَّعَامِ; for the ostrich is proverbial for stupidity: one says أَحْمَقُ مِنْ نَعَامَةٍ “ More stupid than an ostrich: ” because, as Meyd says, when an ostrich happens to see the eggs of another ostrich, it will sit upon them, and forget its own eggs.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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