حمص
حِمَّصٌ and حِمٍّصٌ; (
S,
Msb,
K;) the former preferred by
Th, (
S,
TA,) and by the Koofees, (
Msb,
TA,) and the only word of that form except قِنَّفٌ and قلَّفٌ and قِنِّبٌ and خِنَّبٌ; (
Fr,
TA;) the latter alone allowed by
Mbr, (
S,) and this alone mentioned by
Sb, (
TA,) and preferred by the Basrees, (
Msb,
TA,) and said by
Mbr to be the only word of this form except حِلِّزٌ, meaning “ short,” and جِلِّقٌ, the name of a place in Syria, (
S,
TA,) but
IAar did not know this latter form of the word; (
Az,
TA;) [The cicer arietinum; or chick-peas;] a certain grain, (
S,
Msb,
K,) well known, (
Msb,
K,) of the description termed القَطَانِ: (
AHn:)
n. un. حِمَّصَةٌ and حِمِّصَةٌ: (
TA:) it is white, and red, and black, and of a sort called كِرْسِنِىٌّ [or كَرْسَنِىٌّ?]; and is also wild, and cultivated in gardens: the wild sort is the hotter, and the more contracted; the nutriment of the garden-sort is the better; and the black is the most powerful in its operations: (the Minháj,
TA:) it is flatulent, lenitive, diuretic, having the property of increasing the seminal fluid and the carnal appetite and the blood: (
K:) Hippocrates says that it has in it two substances, which quit it by cooking; one of them salt, or saline, which is lenitive; and the other sweet, which is diuretic; and it clears away spots in the skin, and beautifies the complexion, and is beneficial for hot tumours, and its oil is serviceable for the ringworm, or tetter; and its meal, for the fluid of foul ulcers; and the infusion thereof, for toothache, and for swelling of the lip; and it clears the voice: (
TA:) it also strengthens the body and the penis; (
K;) wherefore it is given as fodder to the stallions of horses and the like, and of camels; (
TA;) on the condition of its being eaten not before [other] food nor after it, but in the midst thereof; (
K;) or, correctly, as in the Minháj, it should be eaten between two meals. (
TA.)