كمش
1 كَمُشَتْ,
aor. ـُ
inf. n. كَمَاشَةٌ, She (a woman) was, or became, small in the breast. (
TA.)
b2: كَمُشَتِ الخُصْيَةُ,
inf. n. كُمُوشَةٌ, [The testicle, or the scrotum,] was, or became, short, and cleaving to the inner skin. (
TA.) See also 5.
A2: كَمُشَ,
inf. n. كَمَاشَةٌ, He (a man) was, or became, quick; (
K;) as also ↓ تكمّش (
S,
K,
TA) and ↓ انكمش; (
K,
TA;) and ↓ اكمش, in relation to pace and to work: (
IKtt:) or quick and sharp or vigorous or effective: (
S:) or determined or resolute, and sharp or vigorous or effective, (
A,
TA,) and quick, in his affairs: (
TA:) or courageous. (
Sb,
ISd.) You say, فِى سَعْيِهِ ↓ انكمش and ↓ تكمّش [He was quick, &c., in his walking, or running, or working]. (
A.) And الفَرَسُ فِى سَيْرِهِ ↓ انكمش [The horse was quick, &c., in his going, or pace.] (
A.) And ↓ انكمش فِى أَمْرِهِ He hastened, or was sharp or vigorous or effective, in his affair. (
As.) And ↓ انكمش فِى الحَاجَةِ He was quick and vigorous in executing the needful affair;
syn. اجْتَمَعَ فِيهَا. (
TA.)
b2: And كَمُشَ He determined, resolved, or decided, upon an affair; as also كَمِشَ, [
aor. ـَ
inf. n. كَمَشٌ. (
TA.) 2 كمّش ذَيْلَهُ, (
A,
TA,)
inf. n. تَكْمِيشٌ, (
TA,) He contracted, or tucked up, his skirt. (
A,
TA.)
A2: كمّشهُ, (
inf. n. as above,
S,
K,) He hastened him; made him quick; (
S,
A,
K;) [and so
app. ↓ اكمشهُ: see شَمَّرَ.]
b2: And كمّش, (
K,) or كمّش الإِبِلَ,
inf. n. as above, (
TA,) He (a man singing to camels to urge or excite them) was vigorous in driving [so that he made the camels quick]. (
K,
TA.) 4 اكمش: see 1.
A2: اكمشهُ: see 2.
A3: اكمش بِالنَّاقَةِ He bound all the teats of the camel with the صِرَار,
q. v. (
S,
K.) 5 تكمّش It (skin) contracted, or shrank, (
A,
K,) and became drawn together; (
K;) and so ↓ انكمش, said of a garment, or piece of cloth, after washing; (
K, art. قلص;) and of an udder. (
TA.) See also 1.
A2: See again 1, in two places.
7 انكمش: see 5.
A2: See also 1, in five places.
كَمْشٌ Short and small; applied to an udder: and [the
fem.] with ة, applied to a testicle, or a scrotum, (خُصْيَة) short, and cleaving to the inner skin. (
TA.)
b2: Applied to a horse, Small in the veretrum; as also ↓ كَمِيشٌ: (
S,
K:) or short therein: [
contr. of سَابِغٌ:]
pl. [of mult.]
كِمَاشٌ and [of pauc.) أَكْمَاشٌ: (A 'Obeyd:) or, applied to a beast of carriage, short and small therein: ('Eyn:) but when applied to a female, having a small udder; as also ↓ كَمِيشٌ, (
K,) or كَمِيشَةٌ, so applied, ('Eyn,) and كَمْشَةٌ, applied to a she-camel, (
Ks,
S,) and ↓ كَمُوشٌ, thus applied: (
TA:) or كَمِيشَةٌ [so in the
K accord. to the
TA, but in some copies of the
K ↓ كَمِشَةٌ,] and كَمُوشٌ have this signification when applied to a ewe or she-goat: (
K:) or the former of these two epithets, (
As,) or each of them, (
K,) thus applied, signifies short in the teat, (
As,
K,) so as to be milked only with the ends of three fingers, or with the thumb and forefinger: (
As:) and كَمْشَةٌ, applied to a woman, having a small breast. (
TA.)
A2: Also, and ↓ كَمِيشٌ, applied to a man, (
S,
A,
K,) Quick: (
A,
K:) or quick and sharp or vigorous or effective: (
S:) or determined or resolute, and sharp or vigorous or effective, (
A,
TA,) and quick in his affairs: (
TA:) and ↓ كَمِشٌ [
app. applied to a man, being the part.
n. of كَمِشَ,
q. v.] is
syn. with كَمْشٌ: (
TA:) or ↓ كَمِيشٌ signifies courageous. (
Sb,
ISd.) كَمِشٌ:
fem. with ة: see above, in two places.
كَمُوشٌ: see above, in three places.
كَمِيشٌ:
fem. with ة: see above, passim.
b2: رَجُلٌ كَمِيشُ الإِزَارِ [
lit.] A man having his ازار [or waist-wrapper] tucked up; (
K,
TA;) [meaning,] vigorous, laborious, or sedulous, in his affair. (
TA.)
