خضر

أَخْضَرُ ذ [ Green; verdant; ] of the colour termed خُضَّارَى; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ خَضِرٌ (Msb, K) and ↓ خَضِيرٌ and ↓ خَضُورٌ and ↓ يَخْضُورٌ and ↓ يَخْضِيرٌ: (K, TA: the last two written in the CK تَخْضُورٌ and تَخْضِيرٌ:) applied to a horse, [and to a camel, (see خُضْرَةٌ,) and to an ass, and sometimes to a bird, and to a garment of the kind called كِسَاآء, and the like, and to various other things, of a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour; or dingy ash-colour; or dark dust-colour; ] of a dust-colour intermixed with دُهْمَة [i. e. blackness or deep ash-colour ]; which is the same as دَيْزَجٌ; (S;) in horses being distinguished as أَخْضَرُ أَدْغَمُ and أَخْضَرُ أَطْحَلُ and أَخْضَرُ أَوْرَقُ: (TA: [see the latter epithet in each of these cases:]) applied to a man, [and to other things,] tawny, or brownish: (S:) [and blackish: and of a blackish hue inclining to green: ] and black; (S, K;) black-complexioned: (TA:) [and intensely black: it is said in the Msb, art. حتم, that الأَخْضَرُ is, with the Arabs, أَسْوَدُ; which may mean either that green is, with the Arabs, termed اسود, or that الاخضر is, with the Arabs, black: but the truth is, that each of the epithets أَخْضَرُ and أَسْوَدُ is sometimes used for the other: see what here follows, and see أَسْوَدُ: in Har p. 495, it is erroneously said, on the authority of Er-Rázee, that the اسود is not termed by the Arabs اخضر, although the اخضر is termed by them اسود because of its intense خُضْرَة and رِىّ:] the fem. is خَضْرَاآءُ: and the pl. is خُضْرٌ. (Msb, TA.) You say شَجَرَةٌ خَضْرَاآءُ A green, and fresh, or juicy, tree. (TA.) And مَاآءٌ أَخْضَرُ Water inclining to a green colour, by reason of its clearness. (TA.) And أَخْضَرُ الجِلْدَةِ [lit. Tawny of skin: ] meaning (assumed tropical:) of pure race; because the complexions of the Arabs are tawny; (S;) of genuine Arab race: (IB:) as in the saying of El-Lahabee, (S, TA,) El-Fadl Ibn-'Abbás, (TA,) وَأَنَا الأَخْضَرُ مَنْ يَعْرِفُنِى أَخْضَرُ الجِلْدَةِ فِى بَيْتِ العَرَبْ [ And I am the tawny: who knows me? the tawny of skin ( or pure of race ), of the family that comprises the nobility of the Arabs ]. (S, IB.) And فُلَانٌ أَخْضَرُ القَفَا [lit. Such a one is blackish, or black, in the back of the neck: ] meaning (tropical:) such a one is the son of a black woman: (Az, A:) or (tropical:) one who is slapped on the back of his neck: (A:) or (tropical:) a freedman, or an emancipated slave. (TA.) And أَخْضَرُ البَطْنِ (tropical:) A weaver: (A, TA:) because his belly, being stuck close to his loom, becomes blackened by it. (TA.) And أَخْضَرُ النَّوَاجِذِ (tropical:) An eater of onions and leeks: or a tiller, or cultivator, of the ground; because he eats herbs, or leguminous plants. (A.) And هُمْ خُضْرُ المَنَاكِبِ [lit. They are green in the shoulders, from carrying the produce of their land:] meaning (tropical:) they are in a state of great plenty. (K, TA.) And [hence, perhaps,] فُلَانٌ أَخْضَرُ (tropical:) Such a one possesses abundant خَيْر [or wealth, or prosperity ]: (A, TA:) [or it may mean goodness: for] الأَخْضَرُ, applied to a man, is an epithet of praise, whereby he may be likened to the sea, because it is described as green, or to the [rain or herbage called] رَبِيع; in both cases meaning (assumed tropical:) liberal, or bountiful; and it is so applied because خُضْرَةٌ is of the colours of the Arabs: and it is also an epithet of dispraise, as meaning (assumed tropical:) black by reason of baseness, ignobleness, or meanness. (Ham p. 282.) And شَابٌّ أَخْضَرُ (tropical:) A young man whose hair has begun to grow upon the sides of his face. (TA.) And كَتِيبَةٌ خَضْرَاآءُ (tropical:) An army, or a troop of horse, overspread with the blackness of iron: (S, TA:) or a great army or troop of horse (K, TA) of which most of the men are clad in iron; like جَأْوَاآءُ: (TA:) because of the خُضْرَة of the iron: (A:) [i. e.] because of the blackness thereof. (TA.) And اللَّيْلُ أَخْضَرُ (tropical:) Night is black. (TA.) And [hence,] جَنَّ عَلَيْهِ أَخْضَرُ الجَنَاحَيْنِ (tropical:) Night [lit. the black-winged ] veiled him, concealed him, or covered him with its darkness. (A.) مُدْهَامَّتَانِ, in the Kur [lv. 64, relating to two gardens of Paradise], is explained by خَضْرَاوَانِ because it means Inclining to blackness, by reason of abundance of moisture, or irrigation. (S.) ― -b2- الأَخْضَرُ used as a subst.: see خُضَارَةٌ. ― -b3- The fem. خَضْرَاآءُ [is also used as a subst., and] signifies Gree herbs or leguminous plants; (Msb, K;) as also ↓ خُضَارَةٌ: (K:) pl. خَضْرَاوَاتٌ: by rule it should be خُضْرٌ; but as the quality of a subst. predominates in it, it has a pl. like the pl. of a subst., like صَحْرَاوَاتٌ pl. of صَحْرَاآءٌ: (Msb:) this pl. occurs in the saying (in a trad., TA) لَيْسَ فِى الخَضْرَاوَاتِ صَدَقَةٌ There is no poor-rate in the case of green herbs or leguminous plants; (Msb;) or fresh fruits and herbs or leguminous plants; (TA;) or fruits, such as the apple and the pear &c.; or herbs or leguminous plants, such as leeks and smallage and rue and the like; and خُضَرٌ, pl. of خُضْرَةٌ, is sometimes substituted for it. (Mgh.) [Hence,] اـِيَّاكُمْ وَخَضْرَاآءُ الدِّمَنِ, meaning (tropical:) Avoid ye the beautiful woman that is of bad origin: (S, A, Msb:) because what grows in a دِمْنَة [or place which men have blackened by their cooking, and where their camels or other beasts have staled and dunged], though it may be beautiful and bright, does not bear fruit [because it is neglected, and left unwatered], (S, Msb,) and soon becomes corrupt, or bad. (Msb. [See also دِمْنَةٌ: and see عُشْبَةٌ الدَّارِ, in art. عشب.]) ― -b4- And الخَضْرَاآءُ, as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates, (TA,) (tropical:) The sky, or heaven; (S, A, K;) because of its greenness; like as the earth is called الغَبْرَاآءُ. (TA.) You say, مَا تَحْتَ الخَضْرَاآءِ أَكْرَهُ مِنْهُ (tropical:) [ There is not under the sky one more hateful than he ]. (A.) ― -b5- And خَضْرَاآءُ (tropical:) A bucket (A, [...]