خَادِمٌ

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خَادِمٌ A servant; applied to a young man, or a male: and, as also خَادِمَةٌ, each in chaste Arabic, but the latter rare, to a young woman, or a female: and خَدَّامٌ [q. v.] is also used in the same sense as خَادِمٌ: the pl. of خَادِمٌ is خَدَمٌ , or rather this is a quasi-pl. n., and خُدَّامٌ and خَدَمَةٌ, and vulgarly خُدْمَانٌ. It is said in a trad., of 'Abd-Er-Rahmán, طَلَّقَ ٱمْرَأَتَهُ فَمَتَّعَهَا بِخَادِمٍ سَوْدَآءَ, meaning [He divorced his wife, and gave her on that occasion] a black young woman [as a slave]. In the saying فُلَانَةُ خَادِمَةُ غَدًا, the word خادمة is not properly an epithet: the meaning is, Such a woman will be a servant to-morrow; like as one says حَائِضَةٌ غَدًا.

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