Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

كَمِيشٌ

Root: كمش

Full Definition

كَمِيشٌ : fem. with ة: see above, passim.
2 رَجُلٌ كَمِيشُ الإِزَارِ [lit.] A man having his ازار [or waist-wrapper] tucked up; [meaning,] vigorous, laborious, or sedulous, in his affair.


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