خمس

خَمَسَ

To take a fifth part of people's possessions or of property.

The action is also described as taking one from five, especially in the division of spoil.

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خَمَسَ

To be fifth among a group, or to make a group five by joining it; by extension, to complete a count such as fourteen to fifteen or forty-nine to fifty.

The subject may be a member entering a group or the agent who completes its number.

• Lane · entry 20058

خَمَسَ

To make a rope of five strands twisted together.

• Lane · entry 20058

خَمَسَ

Of camels, to drink on the fifth day in the watering cycle.

The day-counting convention is the one specified in the lexical discussion of the fifth-day watering schedule.

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خَمَّسَ

To make something five.

This is the causative Form II use of making an object or quantity five.

• Lane · entry 20059

خَمَّسَ

To divide something into five fifths.

This is the partitioning use, distinct from merely making a count reach five.

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خَمَّسَ

To make something five-cornered, five-angled, or pentagonal.

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خَمَّسَ

Of a female, to give birth to her fifth offspring.

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خَمَّسَ

To remain five nights with someone, or to perform an action for a five-unit period.

The cited construction is used with a wife, but the source extends the expression to other actions and relations without restricting its object to that example.

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تَخْمِيسٌ

The fifth-day watering of land or seed-produce in a watering cycle.

It is the watering that follows the tarbīʿ, or fourth-day watering, in the stated agricultural schedule.

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أَخْمَسَ

Of a group, to become five or fifty.

The two numerical values are recorded as related intransitive uses of the Form IV verb.

• Lane · entry 20060

أَخْمَسَ

To be associated with a fifth-day camel-watering schedule.

Applied to a man whose camels come to water on the fifth day, under the stated counting convention.

• Lane · entry 20060

خِمْس

The fifth-day watering interval of camels.

The sources record variant explanations of whether the preceding watering day is included in the count.

• Lane · entry 20063

خِمْس

A desert, journey, or route in which water is reached only after a fifth-day interval.

The term can describe a long waterless passage or a journey in which camels are watered only at the beginning and end of the interval.

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يَضْرِبُ أَخْمَاسًا لِأَسْدَاسٍ

To use a pretext, pretend one thing while intending another, or proceed by artifice toward a concealed aim.

A conventional proverb based on advancing camels from a fifth-day to a sixth-day watering schedule.

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خِمْس

The fifth young one or offspring.

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خِمْس

A Yemeni garment of the burd type.

The term is explained either by the name of an early Yemeni maker or by association with the numerical root; a variant form is also reported in the lexical discussion.

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ضَرَبَ أَخْمَاسَهُ فِي أَسْدَاسِهِ

To direct one's five senses toward all six directions, concentrating one's thoughts and attention on an investigation.

An idiomatic extension of the numerical expression, with the six directions understood as above, below, before, behind, right, and left.

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خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ

Fifteen.

A compound cardinal numeral with the masculine counted-noun pattern; the corresponding feminine form is also recorded.

• Lane · entry 20065

خَمْسُونَ

Fiftieth.

An ordinal use in addition to the cardinal meaning fifty.

• Lane · entry 20066

خُمَاسَ

In groups of five; five at a time.

A distributive adverbial expression, as in people arriving five and five together or successively.

• Lane · entry 20067

خَمِيس

An army or military host.

The term is explained as an army arranged in five divisions, as associated with fifth-share distribution, or as a heavily armed host; these are explanations of the same military designation.

• Lane · entry 20068

خَمِيس

Thursday, the fifth day of the week.

The word is used independently or in the phrase يَوْمُ الخَمِيسِ.

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• Mufradāt · row 436

خَمِيسُ النَّاسِ

A company or group of men.

Used in the expression asking what company of men someone belongs to.

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خُمَاسِيّ

Measuring five spans; especially, a growing boy who is five spans in height and has not reached full stature.

In other applications, the adjective may denote something that reaches or consists of five; the boy-specific use is explicitly limited to the stated stage of growth.

• Lane · entry 20069

خُمَاسِيّ

In grammatical terminology, a word composed of five letters, whether all are radicals or some are augmentative.

• Lane · entry 20069

خَمِيسِيّ

A person who fasts alone on Thursday.

• Lane · entry 20070

خَامِسَ عَشَرَ

Fifteenth.

A compound ordinal numeral with masculine and feminine variants.

• Lane · entry 20071

خَامِسَة

Of camels, adhering to a fifth-day watering schedule.

The adjective is applied to camels that drink on the fifth day or pasture for three days before returning to water under the alternative count described in the source.

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مُخَمَّس

Five-cornered, five-angled, or pentagonal.

An adjective or noun for a thing having five corners or angles.

• Lane · entry 20073

مَخْمُوس

Five cubits in length, applied especially to a spear or to a garment or piece of cloth.

The same measurement may be used of a small garment or cloth.

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فِي بُرْدَةٍ

Near together and in a state of agreement.

A figurative idiom imagining two people fitting together within a five-cubit garment.

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مَخْمُوس

A rope made of five strands twisted together.

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