خمس

He took the fifth part of the possessions of the people,.

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Hence the saying of 'Adee Ibn-Hátim, رَبَعْتُ فِى الجَاهِلِيَّة وَخَمَسْتُ فِى الإِسْلَامِ [I took the fourth part of the spoil in the Time of Ignorance, and I took the fifth part of it in the time of El-Islám]; meaning, I headed the army in both those states, for the commander in the Time of Ignorance used to take the fourth part of the spoil, and in El-Islám the fifth part was assigned to him.

Counting the day of the previous drinking as the first. [See خَمْسٌ.]

He made it five.

So Esh-Sheybánee and the K, under وَحَّدَهُ.

The party of men became five.

Feminine of خَمْسَةٌ [q. v.].

See خُمُسٌ.

The drinking of camels on the fifth day, counting the day of the previous drinking as the first: they drink one day, then pasture three days, then come to the water on the fifth day, the first and last days, on which they drink, being counted in.

This is the correct explanation according to Aboo-Sahl El-Khowlee, and Aboo-Zekereeyà says the like. Or: their pasturing three days and coming to the water on the fourth day, not counting the day of the previous watering — an explanation which comes to the same thing.

According to Lth, the drinking of camels on the fourth day, counting the day on which they returned from the previous watering; but Az says that this is a mistake, the day of returning from watering not being counted.

Plural أَخْمَاسٌ, the only plural form. [See ظِمْءٌ.]

As in copies of the K; or it may be فَلَاةُ خِمْسٍ.

So that the camels come to the water on the fourth day, not counting the day on which they last drank.

That is, he advances his camels from the خِمْس to the سِدْس. A proverb, meaning that such a one tries to deceive or outwit; applied to one who deals cunningly with another, pretending to obey him or fall in with his wish, or who pretends one thing while meaning another.

Related by AO and IAar; said of one who proposes a thing by which he means something else, which he starts on and accomplishes by slow degrees.

For a man, when he wants to make a long journey, accustoms his camels to drink خِمْسًا سِدْسًا [i.e. on the fifth day and then on the sixth, in each case counting the day of the previous drinking as the first].

According to IAar the saying arose thus: an old man was among his camels, together with his sons, grown men who pastured them and who had long been far away from their families; one day he told them to pasture the camels رِبْعًا [i.e. watering on the fourth day, counting the day of the previous watering as the first], which they did, moving in the direction of their families; then they proposed to do so خِمْسًا, and then سِدْسًا; whereupon the old man, understanding what they meant, said: you are doing nothing but making a pretence of اخماس for the purpose of اسداس; your object is not the pasturing of the camels, but only your families.

[See below, under خُمُسٌ, a saying similar in words but different in meaning.]

So called because it was first made for a king of El-Yemen named خِمْسٌ or الخِمْسُ.

Also خَمِيسٌ.

For this last word we find in the work of Bkh خَمِيص, with ص, which, if correct, is the masculine of خَمِيصَةٌ, a small kind of كِسَآء.

[The plural of خِمْسٌ applied to a بُرْدَة is أَخْمَاسٌ.]

See also مَخْمُوسٌ, in four places.

Also خَمِيسٌ, given in the S under ثلث, and by IAmb and Msb; in accordance with a rule that applies to every one of the units except ثَلِيثٌ. Some allow this last, but AZ disallows it, and خميس as well; given in the S under ثلث.

Plural أَخْمَاسٌ.

Masculine; the feminine is خَمْسٌ. Five; a certain number.

With refʿ; and if you like you assimilate the ة into the د and say خَمْسَة دَّرَاهِمَ.

When you prefix ال to دراهم you say this, with ḍamm, and you may not assimilate, because you have already assimilated the ل into the د.

This is the form used with a feminine noun.

And if you like, الدَّرَاهِمُ, using it like an adjective; and in the same way with the other nouns of number up to عَشَرَةٌ.

Here لَيَالٍ is made to predominate over أَيَّام when the word ايّام is not mentioned, although the fasting takes place in the day, because the night of each day comes before the day.

But when you mention the word ايّام.

The fingers being five in number and of the feminine gender; that is, خَمْسٌ means the five fingers.

[Respecting a peculiar pronunciation of the people of El-Hijáz, and a case in which خَمْسَة is imperfectly declined, see ثَلَاثَةٌ.]

[Fifty, and fiftieth.]

It is also written and pronounced خَمِسُونَ, with kesr to the خَمَسُونَ, by poetic licence, as related by Ks; or م, with fet-h, as related by others, after the manner of خَمْسَةٌ and خَمَسَاتٌ.

According to the T, the variation خَمِسُونَ, with kesr to the م, is dialectal, like خَمْسَ عَشِرَةَ with kesr to the ش [in the dialect of Nejd].

As one says ثُنَآءَ, and مَثْنَى, and رُبَاعَ, and مَرْبَعَ.

Or, according to A 'Obeyd, nothing beyond أُحَادَ, ثُنَآءَ, ثُلَاثَ and رُبَاعَ has been heard, except عُشَارَ, which occurs in a verse of El-Kumeyt; given under عشر.

See خُمُسٌ.

See also خِمْسٌ, last meaning.

So Ibn-'Abbád.

A boy five spans in height; said of one who is still growing taller [but has not reached his full stature].

Feminine with ة; and in the same way one says رُبَاعِىٌّ, but not سُبَاعِىٌّ or سُدَاسِىٌّ, in speaking of a boy, because when he has reached seven spans, or six spans, he is a man.

Or the adjective سداسىّ is applied to a slave as well, and سباعىّ to a garment or piece of cloth.

One who fasts alone on Thursday.

[Fifth]: for this you also say خَامٍ.

That is, for خَامِسًا.

[Feminine with ة.]

Also خَوَامِسُ.

Counting the day of the previous drinking as the first [see خِمْسٌ]; or camels that pasture three days and come to the water on the fourth day, not counting the day of the previous watering.

See خُمَاسَ.

A thing five-cornered, five-angled, pentagonal.

[See also مُثَلَّثٌ.]

Five cubits in length; applied to a spear, as also خَمِيسٌ, and to a garment or piece of cloth, as also خَمِيسٌ, which occurs in a tradition as meaning a small garment or piece of cloth, and خُمَاسِىٌّ [q. v. above]; and in the same way بُرْدَةُ أَخْمَاسٍ, a garment of the kind called بردة five cubits long.

Hence this saying.

A poet says

meaning: the bounty of his hands has brought me and the person I love near together, as though we were in a بردة five cubits long. Apparently the man spoken of had bought a female slave for him, or had given the dowry of his wife for him.

A proverb.

[See also بُرْدٌ.]