Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حَمِئُ

Root: حمأ

Full Definition

حَمِئُ A man of an evil eye, who injures with his eye him whom he sees and admires: no verb belonging to it has been heard.

def.2 حَمِئَةٌ A well (بِئْر) or a spring (عَيْن) foul with black, fetid mud.


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