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1 غَمَصَهُ ذ , (S, A, Mgh, K,) aor. غَمِصَ inf. n. غَمْصٌ; (S;) and غَمِصَهُ, aor. غَمَصَ , inf. n. غَمْصٌ; and غَمِصَهُ, aor. غَمَصَ , inf. n. غَمَصٌ; (K, * TA;) but the first is the most chaste; (TA;) He despised him; held him in contempt; (A, Mgh, K;) accounted him little, or vile; regarded him as nothing; (S;) as also ↓ اغتمصهُ . (S, A, K.) You say also, رَآهُ فَغَمَصَتْهُ عَيْنُهُ He saw him and his eye despised him. (A.) ― -b2- He blamed him; found fault with him; imputed to him a vice, or fault; and despised his right. (A, K.) You say, وَجَدَتْ النَّاسَ يَغْمِصُ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا [I found the people blaming one another, &c.]; as also ↓ يَغْتَمِصُ . (A.) And غَمَصْتَهُ بِسُوْءٍ [Thou imputedst evil to him]. (TA, from a trad.) And غَمَصْتُ عَلَيْهِ قَوْلًا قَالَهُ I blamed him, or found fault with him, for a saying that he said. (S.) ― -b3- And hence, (TA,) غَمَصَ النِّعْمَةَ, (S, K,) and غَمِصَهَا, (K,) the latter is the form authorized by the T and the Deewán el-Adab, this verb and [its syn.] غمط being there said to be both with kesr to the م, (TA,) He was ungrateful, or unthankful, for the favour or benefit; (S, K, TA;) he despised it, and disacknowledged it. (TA.) ― -b4- [Hence also, app.,] غَمَصَ ا@للّٰهُ الخَلْقَ God diminished the height, and breadth, and strength, and might in war, or valour, of mankind; and made them small and contemptible: occurring in a trad. of 'Alee respecting the slaughter of his brother by a son of Adam. (TA.) -A2- غَمَصَتْ عَيْنُهُ, (S, K,) aor. غَمَصَ , (K,) inf. n. غَمَصٌ, (S,) His eye had in it what is termed غَمَصٌ, q. v. (S, K.) ― -b2- [Hence, perhaps,] غَمِصَ هٰذَا الأَمْرُ عَلَىَّ This thing, or affair, turned against me, and became attended with trouble. (JK.) ― -b3- [And hence, perhaps,] لَا تَغْمَصْ عَلَىَّ [in the CK تَغْمِصْ] Be not thou angry with me: so accord. to the O [and the JK]: but accord. to the K, do not thou lie against me, or utter falsehood. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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