خ م ص

خ م ص • (ḵ-m-ṣ)

1. related to a state of being shrunken, sunken, hollow

• Form I: خَمَصَ (ḵamaṣa, “to be hollow; to be shrunken; to be empty, to be depleted; to be hungry”)
  • Verbal noun: خَمْص (ḵamṣ), خُمْص (ḵumṣ)
  • Active participle: خَامِص (ḵāmiṣ)
• Form I: خَمِصَ (ḵamiṣa, “to be shrunken; to be empty, to be depleted; to be hungry”)
  • Verbal noun: خَمَص (ḵamaṣ)
  • Active participle: خَامِص (ḵāmiṣ)
• Form IV: أَخْمَصَ (ʔaḵmaṣa, “to thin down; to evacuate”)
  • Verbal noun: إِخْمَاص (ʔiḵmāṣ)
  • Active participle: مُخْمِص (muḵmiṣ)
  • Passive participle: مُخْمَص (muḵmaṣ)
• Form VI: تَخَامَصَ (taḵāmaṣa, “to shrink, to draw away”)
  • Verbal noun: تَخَامُص (taḵāmuṣ)
  • Active participle: مُتَخَامِص (mutaḵāmiṣ)
• Form VII: اِنْخَمَصَ (inḵamaṣa, “to become sedated (the tumor)”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْخِمَاص (inḵimāṣ)
  • Active participle: مُنْخَمِص (munḵamiṣ)

• خَمِيص (ḵamīṣ) and خُمْصَان (ḵumṣān) and أَخْمَص (ʔaḵmaṣ, “depleted; hollow”)
• خَمْصَة (ḵamṣa, “instance of hungering”)
• مَخْمَصَة (maḵmaṣa, “extreme hunger”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “خ م ص”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 406
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “خ م ص”, 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 526
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “خ م ص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 811–812
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خ م ص”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 365