Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ك

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كَمْشٌ ذ Short and small; applied to an udder: and [the fem.] with ة, applied to a testicle, or a scrotum, (خُصْيَة) short, and cleaving to the inner skin. (TA.) ― -b2- Applied to a horse, Small in the veretrum; as also ↓ كَمِيشٌ : (S, K:) or short therein: [contr. of سَابِغٌ:] pl. [of mult.] كِمَاشٌ and [of pauc.) أَكْمَاشٌ: (A 'Obeyd:) or, applied to a beast of carriage, short and small therein: ('Eyn:) but when applied to a female, having a small udder; as also ↓ كَمِيشٌ , (K,) or كَمِيشَةٌ, so applied, ('Eyn,) and كَمْشَةٌ, applied to a she-camel, (Ks, S,) and ↓ كَمُوشٌ , thus applied: (TA:) or كَمِيشَةٌ [so in the K accord. to the TA, but in some copies of the K ↓ كَمِشَةٌ ,] and كَمُوشٌ have this signification when applied to a ewe or she-goat: (K:) or the former of these two epithets, (As,) or each of them, (K,) thus applied, signifies short in the teat, (As, K,) so as to be milked only with the ends of three fingers, or with the thumb and forefinger: (As:) and كَمْشَةٌ, applied to a woman, having a small breast. (TA.) -A2- Also, and ↓ كَمِيشٌ , applied to a man, (S, A, K,) Quick: (A, K:) or quick and sharp or vigorous or effective: (S:) or determined or resolute, and sharp or vigorous or effective, (A, TA,) and quick in his affairs: (TA:) and ↓ كَمِشٌ [app. applied to a man, being the part. n. of كَمِشَ, q. v.] is syn. with كَمْشٌ: (TA:) or ↓ كَمِيشٌ signifies courageous. (Sb, ISd.)