هُمَزَة

hamozapN * n. un. of hamozN , q. v. ― -b2- hamazaAtu Al$~ayaATiyni (tropical:) The vain suggestions of the devils, which they inspire into the mind of a man. (S, TA.) See also 1; and see hamozN .

humazapN * i. q. gam~aAzN ; (K;) i. e., (TA,) One who blames, upbraids, reproaches, or finds fault with, others, much, or habitually; (S, TA;) as also ↓ ham~aAzN (S, TA) and ↓ haAmizN ; (S, K;) and so lumazapN : (S, K, art. lmz :) [or rather] the first and second are intensive epithets (TA) [but the third is not intensive]: or one who backbites his brother; as also ↓ ham~aAzN : (Lth, A, TA:) or one who defames men ( yaxolufuhumo mino waraAy^ihimo wabaA^okulu luHuwmahumo ); and the action thus signified is like giybapN , and may be [ by making signs ] with the side of the mouth, and with the eye, and with the head; as also ↓ ham~aAzN : (TA:) or, conjointly with lumazapN , 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:) humazapN is applied to a man and to a woman; (S, TA;) [like lamuzapN ;] for its p is to denote intensiveness, and not the fem. gender: (TA:) ↓ hum~aAzN [which is the pl. of haAmizN ] 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 lumazapN .