خ ی مkh-y-m
— خَيْمَةkhaymah pl. خِيَام وَخِيَمkhiyām wa-khiyam: tent, pavilion. The lexicographers say the basic sense is of staying and settling down (خَيَّمَkhayyama bi-l-makān = he encamped there). Only once in the Quran, in the description of the maidens of Paradise: ﴿حُوْرٌ مَّقْصُوْرٰتٌ فِي الْخِيَامِ﴾ (Ar-Raḥmān 55:72)