Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حَمِسَ

Root: حمس

Form: 1

Full Definition

حَمِسَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun حَمَسٌ and حَمَاسَةٌ, He was, or became, hard, firm, strong, strict, or rigorous, in religion, and in fight, and in courage, and in an affair. [See also 5.]
2 It was, or became, severe, rigorous, distressful, or afflictive: and it (war, or the clamour thereof, الوَغَى,) was, or became, hot, or vehement.
3 حَمَسَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun حَمْسٌ, He was, or became, courageous.


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