lā tafʿal dhālika ā^ummuka khamshá laA tafoEalo *`lika A^um~uka xamo$aY لَا تَفْعَلْ ذٰلِكَ أُمُّكَ خَمْشَى Bookmark Bookmarked Share (Lh) Do not thou that: may thy mother, being bereft of thee by death, scratch her face for thee. (ISd.) One says also, on the occasion of a thing at which one wonders, خَمْشَى عَقْرَى حَلْقَى. (S and TA in article حلق: see 1 in that article)