مَخْزُومٌ

Anything pierced or perforated: (S, Mgh:) applied in this sense, (JK,) or as meaning pierced and tied, (TA, [see 1,]) to the [thong, of a sandal, called] شِرَاك; (JK, TA;) or, thus applied, it means cut. (Ham p. 166.) See also 1, first sentence, for its meaning as applied to a letter.

Any animal having the nose pierced. (Msb.) And ↓ إِبِلٌ خَزْمَى means Camels having rings such as are termed خَزَايءِم (plural of خِزَامَة) in their nostrils; (IAar, K, TA;) as also ↓ مُخَزَّمَةٌ. (IAar, TA.) All birds, also, are said to be مَخْزُومَة, (S, K,) and ↓ مُخَزَّمَة; (K;) because perforated in the partition between the nostrils: (S, K:) and particularly the ostrich is said to be مَخْزُوم (S, K *) and ↓ مُخَزَّم. (JK, K. *) One says, ↓ مَاهُمْ إِلَّا كَالْأَنْعَامِ المُخَزَّمَةِ, meaning (tropical:) They are none others than stupid, or foolish, persons. (TA. [But كَالْأَنْعَامِ is apparently, here, a mistranscription for كَالنَّعَامِ; for the ostrich is proverbial for stupidity: one says أَحْمَقُ مِنْ نَعَامَةٍ “ More stupid than an ostrich: ” because, as Meyd says, when an ostrich happens to see the eggs of another ostrich, it will sit upon them, and forget its own eggs.])