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خَامَةٌ

Root: خيم

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خَامَةٌ belongs to the present art., and J has erred, in mentioning it in art. خوم: [but why this is said, I know not; nor do the commentators on this passage, as is observed in the TA, give any explanation of it worthy of notice:] it signifies A fresh, or juicy, plant: (S, Msb: both in art. خوم:) or an ear of corn: or a shoot of seed-produce when it first grows forth upon a single stalk: or خَامَةُ الزَّرْع signifies what grows forth, of seedproduce, upon a single stalk: or the fresh, or juicy, bunch thereof: or the fresh, or juicy, plant thereof: pl. خَامَاتٌ and [coll. gen. n.] خَامٌ . It is said in a trad., مَثَلُ المُؤْمِنِ مَثَلُ الخَامَةِ مِنَ الزَّرْعِ تُمِيلُهَا الرِّيحُ مَرَّةً هٰكَذَا وَمَرَّةً هٰكَذَا [The similitude of the believer is that of the fresh, or juicy, plant of seed-produce, &c., which the wind bends, at one time thus, and at one time thus]: but Fr related it differently, saying الحافة, [app. a mistranscription for الخَافَة, which see in art. خوف,] and explained this as meaning “ the bunch ” of seed-produce.


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