خوص

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
خ و ص (ḵ w ṣ)
1 term

Verb

خَوِصَ (ḵawiṣa) I (non-past يَخْوَصُ (yaḵwaṣu), verbal noun خَوَص (ḵawaṣ))

  1. to have depressed eye(s), to have deep-sunken eye(s); respectively of the eye: to be depressed, to be deep-sunken
Conjugation

Noun

خَوَص (ḵawaṣm

  1. the state of having depressed or deep-sunken eyes, or of an eye being depressed or deep-sunken, verbal noun of خَوِصَ (ḵawiṣa) (form I)
Declension

Adjective

خُوص (ḵūṣc pl

  1. common plural of أَخْوَص (ʔaḵwaṣ, having depressed or deep-sunken eyes, (respectively in relation to eyes) depressed or deep-sunken)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic חוצא / ܚܘܨܐ (ḥwaṣṣā, ḥūṣā), same.

Noun

خُوص (ḵūṣm (collective, singulative خُوصَة f (ḵūṣa)) (collective)

  1. frond or leaves of the palm tree
Declension

References

  • ḥwṣ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 146
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 116
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 328 seqq.