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أَخْدَمُ

Root: خدم

Full Definition

أَخْدَمُ i. q. , as meaning, applied to a horse, Having a whiteness such as is termed تَحْجِيل surrounding the pastern of each kind foot, above the parts next the hoof, and stopping short of the shank; but not in the fore foot: or, so applied, whose تَحْجِيل encircles [the pastern] above the أَشَاعِر [or extremities next the hoof]: or the latter epithet, so applied, whose whiteness passes beyond the pasterns or part thereof. And خَدْمَآءُ, [fem. of أَخْدَمُ,] applied to a sheep or goat, i. e. to a شَاة, Having in the lower end of her shank a whiteness like the خَدَمَة [or anklet], upon blackness; or a blackness upon whiteness; and in like manner applied to a mountain-goat: or having white shanks; like حَجْلَآءُ; [but see this latter word;] and so مُخَدَّمٌ applied to a mountain-goat: or having one white shank; the rest of her being black.
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