هــمس
1 هَـ
ـمَس,
aor. ـِ (
A,
TA,)
inf. n. هَـ
ـمْس (
AHeyth,
L,
TA) and هَمِيسٌ and هُمُوسٌ, (
L,
TA,) He spoke inaudibly: (
AHeyth,
TA:) or in a low, faint, gentle, or soft, manner, (
AHeyth,
TA,) so as to be hardly intelligible. (
TA.) It is said in a
trad. فَجَعَلَ بَعْضُنَا يَهْـ
ـمِسُ إِلَى بَعْضٍ and some of us began to speak to others in a low, faint, gentle, or soft, manner, so as to be hardly intelligible. (
TA.) And in another
trad., كَانَ ذَا إِصَلَّى العَصْرَ هَـ
ـمَسَ بِشَىْءٍ لَا نَفْهَمُهُ He used, when he performed the afternoon-prayer, to utter something in a low, faint, gentle, or soft manner, we not understanding it. (
TA.) You say also, هَـ
ـمَسَ إِلَىَّ بِحَدِيثِهِ [He uttered his discourse to me inaudibly: or in a low, faint, gentle, or soft, manner.] (
A.) And الشَّيْطَانُ يَهْـ
ـمِسُ بِوَسْوَسَتِهِ صَدْرَ الإِنْسَانِ [The devil speaks inaudibly in his suggesting vain or unprofitable things into the bosom of man]. (
A.) And هَـ
ـمَسَ الشَّيْطَانُ فِى الصَّدْرِ The devil suggested vain, or unprofitable things in the bosom;
syn. وَسْوَسَ. (
TA.) See also هَـ
ـمْسٌ below.
b2: Also,
aor. and
inf. n. as above, He made the faintest, or slightest, sound in treading. So in the saying, إِهْـ
ـمِسْ وَصَهْ and هَـ
ـمْسًــا وَصَهْ Make thou the faintest, or slightest, sound in treading, and be thou silent: addressed by a thief to his companion. (
TA.) And hence the saying of the
Rájiz, فَهُنَّ يَمْشِينَ بِهِ هَمِيسَا And they walk with him making the faintest, or slightest, sound in treading. (
S.) هَمِيسٌ also signifies The walking softly; with a soft-sounding tread: (
TA:) [and so هَـ
ـمْسٌ; as in the saying,] سَمِعْتُ هَـ
ـمْسَ الأَخْفَافِ وَالأَقْدَامِ [I heard the soft-sounding treading of the feet of camels and of the feet of men]. (
A.) See also هَـ
ـمْسٌ below.
A2: هَـ
ـمَسَ الصَّوْتَ,
aor. ـِ
inf. n. هَـ
ـمْسٌ, He made the sound, or voice to be low, faint, gentle, or soft. (
Msb.) And هَـ
ـمَسَ الكَلَامَ, [
aor. and]
inf. n. as above, [He spoke in a low, faint, gentle, or soft manner; like هَـ
ـمَسَ alone;
lit.,] he made speech, or the speech to be low, faint, gentle, or soft. (
A,
TA.)
A3: هَـ
ـمَسَ الطَّعَامَ, (
TK), [
aor. and]
inf. n. as above, (
Az,
K,) He chewed the food with the mouth closed: (
Az,
K,
TA:) or without opening the mouth. (
TA.) You say, هُوَ يَْكُلُ هَـ
ـمْسًــا He eats without opening his mouth. (
A.) Hence, a toothless old woman's eating is termed هَـ
ـمْسٌ. (
AHeyth.) هَـ
ـمَسَــهُ also signifies [simply] He chewed it. (
TA.) 3 ها
مســهُ,
inf. n. مُهَا
مَسَــةٌ, He spoke, or discoursed secretly to him, or with him. (
A.) Yousay also, هَا
مَسُــوا, (
TK,)
inf. n. as above, (
K,) They spoke, or discoursed, secretly together; as also ↓ تها
مســوا. (
K, *
TK.) 6 تَهَاْـ
ـمَسَ see 3.
هَـ
ـمْسٌ A low, faint, gentle, or soft, sound. (
S,
A,
Msb,
K.) So it has been explained as occurring in the words of the
Kur, [xx. 107,] فَلَا تَسْمَعُ إِلَّا هَـ
ـمْسًــا [So that thou shalt not hear aught save] a low, faint, gentle, or soft, sound, arising from the shifting of the feet from place to place towards the scene of congregation [for the general judgment]: or, as
Az thinks, the meaning here is, the sound of the patting, or pattering, of the feet (خَفْقَ الأَقْدَامِ) upon the ground. (
TA.)
b2: The faint, or gentle, sound of the voice in the mouth, of such kind as has no mixture of the voice of the chest, nor loudness of utterance. (
Lth,
K.) See also مَهْمُوسٌ.
b3: And Anything low, faint, gentle, or soft, (كُلُّ خَفِىٍّ,
K,
TA,) of speech and the like: (
TA:) [see again, مَهْمُوسٌ:] or the faintest, or slightest, sound of the feet; (
S,
K;) i. e., of their tread upon the ground: (
TA:) so [
accord. to
J] in the instance in the
Kur, [xx. 107,] mentioned above: (
S:) and [in like manner] ↓ هَمِيسٌ signifies the sound of the shifting from place to place of the feet of camels. (
K.) See also 1.
هَمِيسٌ: see 1: and see هَـ
ـمْسٌ.
كَلَامٌ 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. (
A, *
Msb.)
b2: حَرْفٌ مَهْمُوسٌ, (
Msb,) or حَرْفُ الهَـ
ـمْسِ, (
IJ,) [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; (
IJ;)
contr. of مَجْهُورٌ: (
Msb:) الحُرُوفُ المَهْمُوسَةُ are the letters (ten in number,
S,) which are comprised in the saying حَثَّهُ شَخْصٌ فَسَكَتْ: (
S,
K: *) 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. (
Sb,
S.)
