Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

كَمَخَ بِأَنْفِهِ, (Ṣ, L, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَكْمَخُ}; (Ḳ;) andاكمخ↓ بانفه; (L;) He magnified himself, or was proud; (Ṣ, L, Ḳ;) elevated his nose, from pride: (L:) or اكمخ he elevated his head, from pride; (L;) i. q. اقمح [in the CK with خ]: (Ḳ:) or he sat in the manner of him who magnifies himself (Ṣ, L) in his own mind. (L.) أَكْمَخُوا بَأْوًا They flourished and increased in self exaltation: or تَرَادُّوا. (L.)

كَمَخَهُ بِاللِّجَامِ He pulled him in [i. e. a horse or the like] by the bridle and bit, in order to check or stop him; (L:) i. q. كَبَحَهُ; (Ḳ;) [or he pulled up his head by the bridle and bit]. See كَمَحَ.

كَمَخَ بِهِ, (Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَكْمَخُ}, (L,) inf. n. كمْخٌ, (Ṣ, L,) He voided it, namely his excrement, or ordure; or voided it in a thin state; syn. سَلَحَ. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) Some bread and كَامَخٌ [q. v. infra] were offered to an Arab of the desert, and he knew not the latter; so it was said to him, “This is كامخ;” whereupon he said, “I know that it is كامخ;” and added, أَيُّكُمْ كَمَخَ بِهِ “which of you voided it?” ايّكم سَلَحَ به. (Ṣ.)

كَمَخَ بِسَلْحِهِ, aor. and inf. n. as above, He (a camel) voided his excrement, or ordure, in a thin state. (L.)

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اكمخ It (a vine) put forth its gems when about to put forth its leaves. (AḤn.) [See also أَكْمَحَ.]

كُمَاخٌ The magnifying one's self; pride. (Abu-l-ʼAbbás, Ḳ.)

كَامَخٌ, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) sometimes written and pronounced كَامِخٌ, (Mṣb, and written in both these ways in a copy of the Ṣ) but the former is better known, and more common, (TA,) an arabicized word, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb,) from the Persian كَامَهْ, (Mgh, Shifá el-Ghaleel,) A kind of seasoning, or condiment, eaten with bread to render it pleasant, or savoury; (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) [a thing used to give relish to food, or to quicken the appetite;] accord. to some, prepared with vinegar, and used to quicken the appetite; (TA;) also called مُرِّىٌّ: (Mṣb:) or it is a bad sort of مُرِّىّ: (Mgh, Mṣb:) pl. كَوَامِخُ, (Mṣb,) or كَوَامِيخُ. (Mgh.)

مَلِكٌ كَيْمَخٌ A king having his head elevated, from pride. (L.)