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أَخْرَسُ ذ (S, &c.) Dumb; prevented from speaking by natural conformation; (Msb;) speechless, or destitute of the faculty of speech, by natural conformation, (T and Msb in art. بكم,) like the beast that lacks the faculty of articulation; (T ibid;) differing from أَبْكَمُ, q. v.: (T and Msb ibid:) or tonguetied, or speechless, (K, TA,) either from inability to find words to express what he would say, or by natural conformation [of the organs of speech]: (TA:) fem. خَرْسَآءُ: (Msb:) pl. خُرْسٌ (Msb, K) and خُرْسَانٌ. (K.) ― -b2- جَمَلٌ أَخْرَسُ A he-camel that has no perforation to his شِقْشِقَة, for his bray to issue therefrom, so that he reiterates it therein: such a one they like to send among the [she-camels in the state in which they are termed] شَوْل, because in most instances he begets females: and نَاقَةٌ خَرْسَآءُ a she-camel that is not heard to utter the cry termed رُغَآء. (TA.) ― -b3- عَلَمٌ أَخْرَسُ (tropical:) A sign of the way, (K,) [or a mountain,] from which, (A,) or at, or in, which, (فِيهِ, K,) no echo is heard: (A, K:) or a sign of the way in the mountain whereof no echo is heard: (Lth, T:) or [it seems to be applied to a mountain where no echo is heard; for] it is said when no sound of an echo is heard in the mountain. (S.) ― -b4- سَحَابَةٌ خَرْسَآءُ (tropical:) A cloud that does not thunder: (A:) or a cloud in which is no thunder nor lightning, (S, K, TA,) and of which no sound is heard; which is mostly in winter. (TA.) ― -b5- عَيْنٌ خَرْسَآءُ (assumed tropical:) A spring of the running whereof no sound is heard. (TA.) ― -b6- صَخْرَةٌ خَرْسَآءُ (assumed tropical:) A hard and solid rock: (Akh, TA:) and عِظَامٌ خُرْسٌ (assumed tropical:) hard and solid bones. (Th, TA.) ― -b7- كَتِيبَةٌ خَرْسَآءُ (tropical:) An army, or a portion thereof, without any clamour or confused noise: (A:) or whereof no sound is heard, by reason of their staidness in war: (S, K:) or that is silent, by reason of the multitude of the coats of mail, without any clashing of arms. (A 'Obeyd, S, K.) ― -b8- لَبَنٌ أَخْرَسُ (tropical:) Thick milk, (S, A, K,) that makes no sound in the vessel, (S, K,) or that does not shake about in its vessel: (A:) or thick milk, of which no sound is heard when it is poured out: (Az, TA:) and شَرْبَةٌ خَرْسَآءُ (assumed tropical:) a thick draught of milk. (M, TA.) ― -b9- وَلِّانِى عِرْضًا أَخْرَسَ أَمْرَسَ [or عُرْضًا?] (assumed tropical:) He turned from me, and would not speak to me. (Fr, TA.) ― -b10- خَرْسَآءُ (assumed tropical:) A viper: (A:) pl. خُرْسٌ. (TA.) ― -b11- Hence, (A,) رَمَاهُ بِخَرْسَآءَ (tropical:) He smote him with a calamity. (A, K. *)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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