خ م ع

Arabic

Root

خ م ع • (ḵ-m-ʕ)

1. related to limping

Derived terms

• Form I: خَمَعَ (ḵamaʕa, “to limp; to be lame”)
  • Verbal noun: خُمُوع (ḵumūʕ), خَمْع (ḵamʕ), خَمَعَان (ḵamaʕān)
  • Active participle: خَامِع (ḵāmiʕ)

• خُمَاع (ḵumāʕ, “limping, lameness”)
• خُمَال (ḵumāl, “limping, lameness”)
• خِمْع (ḵimʕ, “wolf; thief”); pl. أَخْمَاع (ʔaḵmāʕ)
• خَمُوع (ḵamūʕ, “vicious, adulteress, fornicatress”)
• خَامِعَة (ḵāmiʕa, “female hyena”); pl. خَوَامِع (ḵawāmiʕ)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “خ م ع”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 406
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “خ م ع”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 527
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “خ م ع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 812
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خ م ع”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 365