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خشف

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

خِشْفٌ ذ (As, JK, IDrd, Msb, K) and ↓ خُشْفٌ and ↓ خَشْفٌ, (K,) the second of which is said by MF to be the most common, and then the first, (TA,) [but this is a mistake, for the first is the only form commonly occurring,] The young one of the gazelle; (JK, Msb;) applied to the male and the female; (Msb;) or the female is termed خشفة [i. e. خِشْفَةٌ and خِشْفَةِ and خَشْفَةٌ]: (K:) or the young one of the gazelle in the first stage after its birth: (K:) or after it is termed طَلًا; for it is called by the latter appellation when just born: (As, TA: [see شَصَرٌ:]) or after it is termed جَدَايَة: (TA:) or when it first walks: or she that flees, or goes away, from, or of, (مِنْ,) her young ones: (K: [a strange (as well as an ambiguous) explanation, seeing that the fem. is said in the K to be with ة:] pl. خُشُوفٌ, (Msb,) or خِشَفَةٌ. (K.)

Derived headwords

خِشْفٌ
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