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خُمَّانٌ خمان (JK, K) and ↓ خَمَّانٌ , (JK, IDrd, TA,) or ↓ خِمَّانٌ , (K,) What is bad of household goods, or furniture, or utensils; (JK, IDrd, K, TA;) and of trees. (K.) Also the first and second, (JK, S,) or the first and third, (K,) (assumed tropical:) The refuse, or the low, ignoble, or mean, (S, K,) or the bad, (JK,) of mankind: (JK, S, K:) the lowest, basest, or meanest, sort, and the mass, thereof or the weak thereof. (TA.) You say, ذَاكَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ خُمَّانِ النَّاسِ and خَمَّانِ النَّاسِ (assumed tropical:) That is a man of the refuse, &c., of mankind. (S.) [See also خُمَامٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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