akhsaʾ

more, most despicable, meaner, meanest

أَخْسَأ

Word

Noun · pattern أَفْعَل

Root

خ س ء

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 6 entries
  • خَسَأَ Form I He drove away
    , (S, K,) aor. , (K,) inf. n. خَسْءٌ (S, K) and خُسُوْءٌ, (K,) He drove away a dog: (S, K:) he chid him. (Lth.) -A2- It is also intrans., (S,) and signifies He (a dog) went away, to a distance; (S, * K;) [being driven away, or chidden;] as also خَسِيأَ, (K,) and ↓ انخسأ. (S, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] tropically, said to a man, اِخْسَأْ إِلَيْكَ, meaning اِخْسَأْ عَنِّى (tropical:) [Go thou away: or go thou away from me]. (TA.) اِخْسَوأُوا فِيهَا وَ لَا تُكَلِّمُونِ, in the Kur [xxiii. 110], is expressive of removal to a distance with anger; [meaning (assumed tropical:) Go ye away into it, (i. e. the fire of Hell,) and speak not unto Me.] (Zj.) ― -b3- [And hence, (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, vile and despised and hated: so says Golius, as on the authority of the KL; but this meaning is not in my copy of that work: it agrees, however, with a signification of the part. n. خَاسِيأٌ, q. v.] -A3- Also, inf. n. خَسْءٌ and خُسُوْءٌ [as above], said of the sight, (AZ, S, K,) (tropical:) It was, or became, dazzled, or confused, (AZ, S, TA,) and dim. (K, TA.)
  • خَاسَوأُوا Form III They threw stones, one at another
    , (K,) inf. n. مُخَاسَأَةٌ, (S,) (tropical:) They threw stones, one at another; (S, K;) as also ↓ تخاسوأوا, (K,) or تخاسوأوا بِالحِجَارَةِ. (S.) And كَانَتْ بَيْنَهُمْ مُخَاسَأَةٌ (tropical:) [There was between them a contending in throwing, or throwing of stones]. (S, TA.) [See also art. خسى.] ― -b2- And هُوَ يُخَاسِيأُ means يُقَامِرُ [He contends in a game of hazard]. (IB, TA in art. خسو.)
  • تَخَاْسَاَ Form VI Open entry
    see 3.
  • إِنْخَسَاَ Form VII Open entry
    see 1.
  • خَسِىْءٌ Bad
    Bad wool. (O, K.)
  • خَاسِيأٌ Driven away, repelled, and not suffered to come near to men
    , applied to a dog, and to a swine, (K,) and to a devil, (TA,) Driven away, repelled, and not suffered to come near to men. (K, TA.) ― -b2- And [hence,] (assumed tropical:) Contemptible, despicable, vile, or abject. (TA.) ― -b3- Applied to the sight, (tropical:) Dazzled, or confused, (S, TA,) and dim. (TA.) So in the words of the Kur [lxvii. 4], يَنْقَلِبُ إِلَيْكَ البَصَرُ خَاسِيأًا (tropical:) [The sight will recoil to thee dazzled, or confused, or dim]: (S, TA:) or the meaning here is (assumed tropical:) contemptible: or withdrawing far away: or it is of the measure فَاعِلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, [meaning repelled far away,] like عِيشَةٍ رَاضِيَةٍ, in the Kur [lxix. 21 and ci. 5], for مَرْضِيَّةٍ. (TA.)

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