خصف

1 خَصْفٌ خصف [inf. n. of خَصَفَ] signifies The act of adjoining, and putting together. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) خَصَفَ, (S, Msb, K, TA,) aor. خَصِفَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. خَصْفٌ, (Msb,) He sewed a sole (S, K, TA) [ so as to make it double ], covering, or facing, one piece with another: (TA:) or he patched a sole; mended it by sewing on another piece. (Msb.) And He made anything double, putting one piece upon another; he faced it. (TA.) ― -b3- And [hence,] خَصَفَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ, (JK,) or خَصَفَ الوَرَقَ عَلَى بَدَنِهِ, (S, * K,) aor. as above, (S, TA,) and so the inf. n.; (TA;) and ↓ اختصف; (S, K;) and ↓ اخصف; (K;) and ↓ خصّف, inf. n. تَخْصِيفٌ; (TA;) (tropical:) He stuck [or sewed ] the leaves together, one to another, (S, K, * TA,) and covered his person with them, leaf by leaf, (K,) to conceal therewith his pudenda: (S, TA:) or the first phrase, (JK,) as also ↓ اختصف, (Lth, JK,) signifies he (a naked man) put upon his pudenda wide leaves, (Lth, JK,) or the like: (Lth:) you say, بِكَذَا ↓ اختصف [ he covered his pudenda with such a thing ]. (Lth, JK.) It is said in the Kur [vii. 21 and xx. 119], وَطَفِقَا يَخْصِفَانِ عَلَيْهِمَا مِنْ وَرَقِ الجَنَّةِ; and ↓ يَخِصِّفَانِ, originally يَخْتَصِفَانِ, by some pronounced ↓ يَخَصِّفَانِ, (S, TA,) and by some, ↓ يَخْصِّفَانِ, with two quiescent letters together; (TA; [but this appears to be incorrect; see 8 in art. خصم;]) and ↓ يُخْصِفَانِ, from أَخْصَفَ; and ↓ يُخَصِّفَانِ, from خَصَّفَ; (Ksh and Bd in vii. 21, and TA;) thus accord. to different readings; i. e. (tropical:) And they betook themselves to sticking [or sewing ] together, one to another, of the leaves of Paradise, to conceal therewith their pudenda. (S, TA.) And hence, also, the saying, in a trad., اـِذَا دَخَلَ أَحَدُكُمُ الحَمَّامَ فَعَلَيْهِ بِالنَّشِيرِ ↓ وَلَا يُخَصِّفْ, i. e. (tropical:) [ When any one of you enters the bath, ] let him take the waist-wrapper, and not put his hand upon his pudendum: and like this in meaning is تخصّفه [app. a mistranscription for ↓ يَتَخَصَّفُ, or ↓ يَخِصِّفُ or the like, for يَخْتَصِفُ: if not, it must be ↓ تَخَصَّفَهُ, meaning he put his hand upon it ]. (TA.) ― -b4- [Hence also the saying,] فَمَا زَالُوا يَخْصِفُونَ أَخْفَافَ المَطِىِّ بِحَوَافِرِ الخَيْلِ حَتَّى لِحِقُوهُمْ (tropical:) And they ceased not to make the prints of the feet of the camels to be covered by the prints of the hoofs of the horses [ until they overtook them ]; as though they sewed these upon the others, like as one sews a sole by covering, or facing, one piece with another. (TA.) ― -b5- And خُصِفَتِ الكَتِيبَةُ مِنْ وَرَائِهَا بِخَيْلٍ, i. e. (assumed tropical:) [ The body of troops ] was followed [ by horsemen ]. (S.) ― -b6- And خَصَفَ, aor. خَصِفَ , inf. n. خَصْفٌ, (assumed tropical:) He lied. (Munjid of Kr. [See خَصَّافٌ.]) ― -b7- And خَصَفْتُ فُلَانًا (tropical:) I exceeded such a one in reviling [as though adding reviling upon reviling]. (TA.) -A2- خَصَفَتْ, (AZ, S, K,) aor. خَصِفَ , (AZ, S,) inf. n. خِصَافٌ, said of a she-camel, She cast her young one in the ninth month: (AZ, S, K:) the epithet applied to her in this case is ↓ خَصُوفٌ: (AZ, S:) or, as some say, (S,) this epithet signifies one that brings forth a year and a month, (S, and so in some copies of the K,) in [some of] the copies of the K a year and two months, which is wrong, (TA,) after the time when she was covered: (S, K:) جَرُورٌ is applied to one that brings forth a year and two months after that time: (S, TA:) or ↓ the former epithet signifies one that brings forth on the completion of the year: (IAar, TA:) or one of the camels termed مَرَابِيع [pl. of مِرْبَاعٌ q. v.] that brings forth at the completion of the year; or one of such camels that brings forth when she comes to the time of the year in which she was covered, completely: (TA:) and ↓ اختصفت signifies she (a camel) became such as is termed خَصُوف. (JK, TA.)