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خَمْشَى

Root: خمش

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خَمْشَى Do not thou that: may thy mother, being bereft of thee by death, scratch her face for thee. One says also, on the occasion of a thing at which one wonders, خَمْشَى عَقْرَى حَلْقَى. (S and TA in art. حلق: see 1 in that art.)
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