Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

خَيْشٌ Garments, or pieces of cloth, of the worst of flax: (Ṣ:) or garments, or pieces of cloth, of thin texture, and of coarse threads, made of the hards, or hurds, of flax, (Ḳ,* TA,) and of the worst thereof: (TA:) or of the coarsest of [the stuff called] عصب [i. e. عَصْب, q. v., in the copies of the Ḳ in my hands incorrectly written عَصَب]: (Lth, Ḳ:) or coarse flax: (Mgh:) or a cloth of coarse flax. (Ḥar p. 544.)

[Hence,] † A low, vile, or mean, man. (Ḳ.)

خَيْشِىٌّ andخَيَّاشٌ↓ [A weaver, or seller, of خَيْش.The former mentioned in the Ḳ, and the latter in the TA, as surnames of men.]