مَهْمُوسٌ
Root: همس
Full Definition
مَهْمُوسٌ
[Speech spoken inaudibly: or in a low, faint, gentle, or soft manner, so as to be hardly intelligible: see 1: or] speech not spoken out or openly.
2 حَرْفٌ مَهْمُوسٌ, or حَرْفُ الهَمْسِ, [A letter which is pronounced with the breath only, without the voice; a non-vocal letter; a sound with which the breath passes forth, not from the voice of the chest, but passing forth gently; contr. of مَجْهُورٌ: الحُرُوفُ المَهْمُوسَةُ are the letters which are comprised in the saying حَثَّهُ شَخْصٌ فَسَكَتْ: so called [accord. to some] because the stress is made weak in the place where any one of them occurs until the breath has passed forth with it.
2 حَرْفٌ مَهْمُوسٌ, or حَرْفُ الهَمْسِ, [A letter which is pronounced with the breath only, without the voice; a non-vocal letter; a sound with which the breath passes forth, not from the voice of the chest, but passing forth gently; contr. of مَجْهُورٌ: الحُرُوفُ المَهْمُوسَةُ are the letters which are comprised in the saying حَثَّهُ شَخْصٌ فَسَكَتْ: so called [accord. to some] because the stress is made weak in the place where any one of them occurs until the breath has passed forth with it.
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