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, article 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 feminine gender: (TA:) ↓ هُمَّازٌ [which is the plural 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.