خمل

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Arabic

Root
خ م ل (ḵ m l)
7 terms

Verb

خَمَلَ (ḵamala) I (non-past يَخْمُلُ (yaḵmulu), verbal noun خُمُول (ḵumūl))

  1. to be effaced, to be obliterated, to be obscure, to be unapparent, to be imperceptible; to become effaced, to become obliterated, to become obscure, to become unapparent, to become imperceptible
  2. to be soft, to be smooth; to become soft, to become smooth

Conjugation

Noun

خَمْل (ḵamlm

  1. redundancy of hair, plush, fluff, fuzz, nap
  2. (bacteriology) fimbriae
  3. (anatomy) fringes, fimbriae

Declension

Adjective

خَمِل (ḵamil)

  1. languid, supine

Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “خمل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 406
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خمل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 527
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “خمل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 812–813
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خمل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 365–366