مَخْمُوسٌ

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مَخْمُوسٌ Five cubits in length; applied to a spear, as also خَمِيسٌ ; and to a garment, or piece of cloth, as also خَمِيسٌ , which occurs in a trad. as meaning a small garment or piece of cloth, and خُمَاسِىٌّ [q. v. suprà]; and in like manner, بُرْدَةُ a [garment of the kind called] بردة fire cubits long. Hence the saying, هُمَا فِى بُرْدَة They two have become near together, and in a state of agreement. A poet says, صَيَّرَنِى جُودُ يَدَيهِ وَمَنْ أَهْوَاهُ فِى بُرْدَةِ i. e., The bounty of his hands has made me and the person whom I love to be near together, as though we were in a بردة five cubits long: app. meaning that the person thus spoken of had purchased for him a female slave, or had given for him the dowry of his wife. You also say, لَيْتَنَافِى بُرْدَةِ , a prov., meaning Would that we were near together. [See also بُرْدٌ.]
2 Also A rope made of five strands twisted together.

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