كُمَيْتٌ
Root: كمت
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كُمَيْتٌ
, masc. and fem., [A bay, or dark bay, or brown, horse &c.:] of a red colour mixed with blackness: or of a red colour mixed with
قُنُوْء, which latter is blackness that is not pure, or clear: [see كُمْتَةٌ, above:] a camel is called أَحْمَرُ if of an unmixed red; but if of a red colour mixed with قنوء, it is called كميت: the difference between كميت and أَشْقَرُ, as applied to horses, is in the mane and the tail: if these are red, the animal is called اشقر [i. e. sorrel]; and if they are black, it is called كميت; and the وَرْد is between these two: [all bay horses have black manes, which distinguish them from the sorrel, that have red or white manes: ] an epithet applied to the horse and the camel and other animals: you say فَرَسٌ كميتٌ, and مُهْرَةٌ كميتٌ, and بَعِيرٌ كميتٌ, and نَاقَةٌ
كميتٌ: accord. to the Kh, as cited by Sb, it is of the dim. form because it denotes a colour between black and red, as though to imply that it signifies what is near to each of these two colours. In a marginal note in the S, it is said to be a foreign word arabicized. [Perhaps from the Persian كُمِيژَهْ: Freytag says, accord. to some from the Persian كُميته.] See also أَكْمَتُ, and كُمْتَةٌ. The Arabs say, that the كميت is the most powerful of horses, and the strongest in the hoofs.
2 تَمْرَةٌ كُمَيْتٌ
3 تِينٌ كُمَيْتٌ
4 كُمَيْتٌ
5 كُمَيْتٌ is also applied as an epithet to waste, or unowned, land.
6 كُمَيْتٌ A long, complete, month, or year.
2 تَمْرَةٌ كُمَيْتٌ
3 تِينٌ كُمَيْتٌ
4 كُمَيْتٌ
5 كُمَيْتٌ is also applied as an epithet to waste, or unowned, land.
6 كُمَيْتٌ A long, complete, month, or year.
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