ك • ش • أ

, aor. كَشَاَ , He ate cucumber. (S.) كَشَأَ, (S, K.) inf. n. كَشْءٌ, (S,) He ate food: (TA:) or he ate food in the same manner as one eats cucumbers; (AZ, S, K;) chewing with the extreme grinders, or filling the mouth, (خَضْمًا,) as in eating cucumbers and the like. (TA.) كَشَأَ and ↓ كشّأ, He ate flesh-meat: [the latter] only used with reference to flesh-meat. (TA.) كَشَأَ He ate a piece of كَشِىْء. (TA.) [See also 4 and 5.] كَشِئَ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ, aor. كَشَاَ , inf. n. كَشْءٌ and كَشَآءٌ (K) and, accord. to some, كَشَأٌ; (TA;) and ↓ تكشّأ; (K;) He was, or became, filled with food. (K.) -A2- كَشَأَ, (S, K,) inf. n. كَشْءٌ; (S;) and ↓ اكشأ; (El-Umawee, S, K:) He roasted meat until it became dry. (AA, S, K.) كَشِئَ It (a skin for water &c.) had its inner skin appearing through its outer; (K;) as happens when a skin has been long folded, and has dried and broken in that state. (TA) كَشِئَتْ يَدُهُ His hand chapped; or its skin became rough and corrugated. (K.) -A3- كَشَأَ He peeled a thing: (Fr, K:) used with reference to a hide. (TA.) -A4- كَشَأَ وَسَطَهُ He smote and cut his, or its, middle with a sword. (K, TA.) -A5- كَشَأَ Inivit feminam. (K.)

He ate. كَشِىْء. (TA.) -A2- And see 1.

He ate dry meat [see كَشِىء], (S,) and was filled with it. (TA.) See 1. -A2- تكشّأ It became peeled. (K.) تكشّأ الأَدِيمُ The hide became peeled: [i. e., its outer layer of skin, or scarf-skin, was shaven, or scraped off]. (S.)

and كَشِىْءٌ Filled with food. (K.) -A2- كَشِىْءٌ Meat roasted until it becomes dry. (S.)

inf. n. of 1, q. v. Roughness and corrugation [or chapping] in the skin of the hand. (TA.)

A vice, fault, defect, blemish, or something amiss. (K.)