Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

رَمِيضٌ

Root: رمض

Full Definition

رَمِيضٌ : see مَرْمُوضٌ.

def.2 Also Made thin by being beaten between two stones: sharpened: sharp: applied to a knife; and to such as is termed شَفْرَة; and to a نَصْل [or blade]; and to a razor (مُوسَى), as also رَمِيضَةٌ; and in the last of the above-mentioned senses, to anything: it is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ: or it may be in the sense of the measure فَاعِلٌ, from رَمُضَ, though this verb may not have been heard.


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