خمط

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Arabic

Etymology

Compare سَمَطَ (samaṭa).

Verb

خَمَطَ (ḵamaṭa) I (non-past يَخْمِطُ (yaḵmiṭu), verbal noun خَمْط (ḵamṭ)) (obsolete)

  1. to roast without pelt, to broil
  2. to put milk into the bag

Conjugation

Verb

خَمَطَ (ḵamaṭa) I (non-past يَخْمِطُ (yaḵmiṭu), verbal noun خَمَط (ḵamaṭ)) (obsolete)

  1. to have a particular pungent both agreeable and disagreeable smell (said of milk)

Conjugation

Noun

خَمْط (ḵamṭm (obsolete)

  1. milk exhalating a particular pungent both agreeable and disagreeable smell
  2. any fruitbearing plant acrid of taste; any fruits of disagreeable taste of a plant considered of disagreeable taste
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 34:16:
      فَأَعْرَضُوٱ فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَيْلَ ٱلْعَرِمِ وَبَدَّلْنٰهُم بِجَنَّتَيْهِمْ جَنَّتَيْنِ ذَوَاتَىْ أُكُلٍ خَمْطٍ وَأَثْلٍ وَشَىْءٍ مِّن سِدْرٍ قَلِيلٍ
      faʔaʕraḍū faʔarsalnā ʕalayhim sayla l-ʕarimi wabaddalnāhum bijannatayhim jannatayni ḏawātā ʔukulin ḵamṭin waʔaṯlin wašāʔin min sidrin qalīlin
      But they turned away, so we sent upon them the flood of the dam and replaced their two gardens bearing edible fruits with two gardens having bitter fruits and tamarisks and here and there buckthorn.
  3. toothbrush tree (Salvadora persica)
    Synonym: أَرَاك (ʔarāk)
  4. fruits of the toothbrush tree
    Synonyms: مَرْد (mard), بَرِير (barīr), كَبَاث (kabāṯ)

Declension

Adjective

خَمْط (ḵamṭ) (obsolete)

  1. acrid or bitter
    • 975–997, محمد بن أحمد الخوارزمي [muḥammad ibn ʕaḥmad al-ḵwārizmī], edited by Gerlof van Vloten, مفاتيح العلوم [mafātīḥ al-ʕulūm], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1895, pages 167 line 10 – page 168 line 1:
      الْحَزَاء بقلة تشبه الْكَرَفْس لريحها خَمْطة وهي بالفارسيّة دينارُویه
      Rue is a vegetable similar to celery, of an acrid smell, in Persian called dīnārūya.
      commented in Seidel, Ernst (1915) “Die Medizin im Kitâb Mafâtîḥ al ʿUlûm”, in Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medizinischen Sozietät zu Erlangen (in German), volume 47, page 25 Anm. 73

Declension

Adjective

خَمِط (ḵamiṭ) (obsolete)

  1. exhalating a particular disagreeable or agreeable smell

Declension

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