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انهمز [quasi-pass. of هَمَزَهُ ; It was pressed, squeezed, or pinched: he was pushed, &c. The first of these significations is indicated, or implied, in the JK and the TA.] ― -b2- انهمز الحَرْفُ [The word was pronounced with the sound termed هَمْز , or هَمْزَة ]. (S.)

هَمْزُ الشَّيْطَانِ was explained by Mohammad as meaning (tropical:) Madness, or insanity; syn. مُوتَةٌ , i. e. جُنُونٌ ; because it arises from the goading and pressing or pinching of the devil. (A 'Obeyd, K.) See 1; and see also هَمَزَات , voce هَمْزَةٌ . -A2- هَمْزٌ , (S,) and هَمْزَةٌ , (Kh, TA,) [the former a gen. n., and the latter the n. un.,] The sister of alif; one of the letters of the alphabet; [written thus;] a genuine word, old, heard [from the Arabs of classical times], and well known; so called for a reason mentioned above: see 1, last signification: so says Kh; therefore no regard is due to what is said in certain of the expositions of the Keshsháf, that the term همزة thus used has not been heard [from any of the Arabs of classical times], and that its name is أَلْفٌ : (TA:) several persons say, that the term همزة is mostly applied to the movent [alif], and الف to the quiscent letter. (MF, TA.) See the letter ا .

هَمْزَةٌ n. un. of هَمْزٌ , q. v. ― -b2- هَمَزَاتُ الشَّيَاطِينِ (tropical:) The vain suggestions of the devils, which they inspire into the mind of a man. (S, TA.) See also 1; and see هَمْزٌ .

هُمَزَةٌ i. q. غَمَّازٌ ; (K;) i. e., (TA,) One who blames, upbraids, reproaches, or finds fault with, others, much, or habitually; (S, TA;) as also ↓ هَمَّازٌ (S, TA) and ↓ هَامِزٌ ; (S, K;) and so لُمَزَةٌ : (S, K, art. لمز :) [or rather] the first and second are intensive epithets (TA) [but the third is not intensive]: or one who backbites his brother; as also ↓ هَمَّازٌ : (Lth, A, TA:) or one who defames men ( يَخْلُفُهُمْ مِنْ وَرَايءِهِمْ وَبَأْكُلُ لُحُومَهُمْ ); and the action thus signified is like غِيبَةٌ , and may be [by making signs] with the side of the mouth, and with the eye, and with the head; as also ↓ هَمَّازٌ : (TA:) or, conjointly with لُمَزَةٌ , one who speaks evil of men, or backbites them, and defames them: (Aboo-Is-hák, TA:) or both together, one who goes about much, or habitually, with calumny, or slander, separating companions and exciting enmity between friends: (Abu-l-'Abbás, TA:) هُمَزَةٌ is applied to a man and to a woman; (S, TA;) [like لَمُزَةٌ ;] for its ة is to denote intensiveness, and not the fem. gender: (TA:) ↓ هُمَّازٌ [which is the pl. of هَامِزٌ ] signifies persons who blame, upbraid, reproach, or find fault with, others behind their backs, much, or habitually: (IAar, TA:) [or, more correctly, it has not an intensive signification.] See also لُمَزَةٌ .

هَمَّازٌ : see هُمَزَةٌ , throughout.

هَامِزٌ : see هُمَزَةٌ , throughout.

مِهْمَزٌ : see مِهْمَازٌ .

مِهْمَزَةٌ An instrument for beating, ( مَقْرَعَةٌ , AHeyth, K, TA,) of copper or brass, [app. meaning a kind of spur, or a goad,] with which beasts of carriage are urged on: pl. مَهَامِزُ : (AHeyth, TA:) or a staff or stick: (K:) or a staff, or stick, with an iron in its head, with which the ass is goaded, or urged on. (Sh, K.) See also مِهْمَازٌ . ― -b2- [The pl., مَهَامِزُ , of this word or of مِهْمَزٌ , is also applied to An instrument, or instruments, with which spear-shafts are pinched and straightened: see 1, first signification.]

مِْهَمازٌ and ↓ مِهْمَزٌ (S, Msb, K) A well-known thing; (Msb;) [namely, a spur;] an iron which is [attached or fixed] in the kinder part of the boot of him who breaks, or trains, beasts of carriage: (S, K:) pl. [of the former] مَهَامِيزُ (K) and [of the latter] مَهَامِزُ . (S, K.) See also مِهْمَزَة .