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• هَمَس Form 1

  هَمَسI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun هَمْس and هَمِيسٌ and هُمُوسٌ, He spoke inaudibly: or in a low, faint, gentle, or soft, manner, so as to be hardly intelligible. It is said in a trad. فَجَعَلَ بَعْضُنَا يَهْمِسُ إِلَى ب…

• هَمْسٌ

  هَمْسٌ A low, faint, gentle, or soft, sound. So it has been explained as occurring in the words of the Kur, [xx. 107,] فَلَا تَسْمَعُ إِلَّا هَمْسًا [So that thou shalt not hear aught save] a low, faint, gentle, or soft,…