خصف

خَصَفَةٌ خصف خصفه خصفة A receptacle for dates, such as is termed جُلَّة, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) made of palm-leaves; (S, K;) wherein they are stored: of the dial. of El-Bahreyn: (TA:) and a mat upon which أَقِط &c. are put to dry: (TA in art. شر:) and [it is said to signify] a very thick kind of cloth: (Lth, K:) pl. ↓ خَصَفٌ, (S, K,) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and [the pl. properly speaking is] خِصَافٌ: (S, Msb, K:) Lth says that a certain Tubba' [a king of El-Yemen] clothed the House [i. e. the Kaabeh] with ↓ خَصَف, meaning very thick cloths; so called as being likened to the خَصَف of woven palm-leaves: but Az says that this is wrong; and that it means pieces of matting made of palm-leaves woven together, oblong pieces of which were used as coverings for the tents of the Arabs of the desert, and sometimes made into جِلَال [pl. of جُلَّةٌ] for dates: (TA:) ↓ خُصَّافٌ, also, signifies a piece of matting of palm-leaves; and its pl. is خَصَاصِيفُ. (JK.)