Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Apparently a variation of the root خ م ل (ḵ-m-l).

Pronunciation edit

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Verb edit

خَمَنَ (ḵamana) I, non-past يَخْمُنُ‎ (yaḵmunu)

  1. to be obscure, to be unapparent, to be hidden, to be concealed; to become obscure, to become unapparent, to become hidden, to become concealed

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

خَمَّنَ (ḵammana) II, non-past يُخَمِّنُ‎ (yuḵamminu)

  1. to conjecture, to guess, to presume, to ween, to surmise

Conjugation edit

References edit

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خمن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 527
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “خمن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 813
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خمن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 365–366