خِيمٌ
Root: خيم
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خِيمٌ
Natural, or innate, dispositions or tempers or the like: a Persian word, arabicized: having no sing. of its own radical letters: or largeness, or liberality, of disposition: and the original, or primary, state, or condition, syn. أَصْل, of the soul, or mind. You say, هُوَ كَرِيمُ الخِيمِ [He is generous in respect of natural dispositions &c.].
2 The diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain, syn. فِرِنْد, of a sword.
3 And I. q. حَمْضٌ [app. meaning the kind of plants called حَمْض].
2 The diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain, syn. فِرِنْد, of a sword.
3 And I. q. حَمْضٌ [app. meaning the kind of plants called حَمْض].
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