خمل

Arabic

Root
خ م ل (ḵ-m-l)

Verb

خَمَلَ • (ḵamala) I, non-past يَخْمُلُ‎ (yaḵmulu)

  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 • (ḵaml) m

  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
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