خَمْرٌ
1.
[Wine: or grape-wine:] what intoxicates, of the expressed juice of grapes: (ISd, K:) or the juice of grapes when it has effervesced, and thrown up froth, and become freed therefrom, and still: (Mgh:) or it has a common application to intoxicating expressed juice of anything: (K, TA:) or any intoxicating thing, that clouds, or obscures, (lit. covers,) the intellect; as some say: (Mgh, * Msb: [but see what follows:]) and the general application is the more correct, because خَمْر was forbidden when there was not in El-Medeeneh any خَمْر of grapes; the beverage of its inhabitants being prepared only from dates in their green and small state, or full-grown but unripe, or fresh and ripe, or dried: (K, * TA:) or the arguing thus, from this fact alone, requires consideration: (MF:) AHn says, it is (assumed tropical:) sometimes prepared from grains: but ISd holds this to be an improper signification: (TA:) it is also sometimes applied to the (assumed tropical:) beverage called
نَبِيذ, like as نبيذ is sometimes applied to wine expressed from grapes: (L in article نبذ:) applied to (tropical:) expressed juice from which
خَمْر [properly so called] is made, [i. e., to must, or unfermented
نَبِيذ,] it is tropical: it is so used in a tradition in which خَمْر is said to have been sold by [a companion of Mohammad named] Samurah: خَمْر [in its proper acceptation] is so called because it veils (تَخْمُرُ, i. e. تَسْتُرُ,) the intellect: (K:) or because it infects (تُخَامِرُ, i. e. تُخَالِطُ,) the intellect: (S, K:) [as though acting like leaven: (see 1:)] so said 'Omar: (TA:) or because it is left until it has become mature [and fermented]; (K;) or until its odour has changed: (IAar, S:) [see 8:] the proper application of the root is to denote “ covering, ” and “ commingling in a hidden manner: ” (Sgh, Er-Rághib, TA:) it is of the feminine gender, and sometimes masculine: (Msb, K:) you say هُوَ الخَمْرُ as well as هِىَ الخَمْرُ: but As does not allow it to be masculine: (Msb:) and
خَمْرَةٌ signifies the same: (K:) [or a kind of wine:] or خَمْرٌ and خَمْرَةٌ are like تَمْرٌ and تَمْرَةٌ; [the former a coll. gen. n., and the latter its n. un.;] (S;) and خَمْرَةٌ [thus] signifies some wine; lit., a portion of
خَمْر: (Msb:) the plural of خَمْرٌ is خُمُورٌ. (S, Msb.) You say [also] صِرْفٌ
خَمْرَةٌ [Some pure, or unmixed, wine; using a masculine epithet, contr. to rule]. (S.)
2.
[Hence the saying,] مَا
عِنْدَ فُلَانٍ خَلٌّ وَلَا خَمْرٌ, (S,) or مَا هُوَ بِخَلٍّ وَلَا خَمْرٍ, (K,) (tropical:) Such a one, (S,) or he, (K,) possesses neither good nor evil: (S, K:) [or neither evil nor good: for] AA says that some of the Arabs make الخَمْرُ to be good, and الخَلُّ to be evil; and some of them make الخمر to be evil, and الخلّ to be good. (Har p. 153.)
3.
خَمْرٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) Grapes; (AHn, M, K;) in the dialect of ElYemen:) (M:) like as عِنَبٌ signifies “ wine ” in that dialect (AHn, TA in article عنب.) It is said in the Qur'an, 12:36, إِنِّى أَرَانِى أَعْصِرُ خَمْرًا
Verily I thought myself pressing grapes: (ISd:) or the meaning is, pressing out wine from grapes. (Ibn- 'Arafeh.)