خَسِيسٌ

Root: خس

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خَسِيسٌ , applied to a man, and to a lot or portion or share, or a thing, Low or ignoble, base, vile, mean or sordid, weak; [or, more commonly,] contemptible; as also مُسْتَخِسٌّ and ; and, applied to a thing, also, paltry, or inconsiderable; and so خُسَاسٌ and مَخْسُوسٌ ; bad, corrupt, abominable, or disapproved: fem. with ة: pl. masc. أَخِسَّآءُ and خِسَاسٌ and أَخِسَّةٌ; pl. fem. خَسَائِسُ.
2 حَظٌّ خَسِيسٌ, and مَخْسُوسٌ , A low, or mean, fortune, that is not held in any estimation.
3 هُوَ لَا يَدْخُلُ فِى خِسَاسِ الأُمُورِ [He will not enter into low, mean, or contemptible, affairs].
4 خَسِيسٌ is also applied to A disbeliever, an unbeliever, or infidel.

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