خضع

1 خَضَعَ خضع , aor. خَضَعَ , inf. n. خُضُوعٌ (S, Msb, K) and خَضْعٌ and خُضْعَانٌ, or خِضْعَانٌ, (TA,) He was, or became, lowly, humble, or submissive, (S, Msb, K,) لَهُ to him, (Msb, TA,) [for instance,] to his creditor, (Msb,) or to God; (TA;) as also ↓ اختضع, (S, K,) [and ↓ انخضع, (K in art. خذأ,)] and ↓ اِخْضَوْضَعَ: (Sgh, K:) خُضُوعٌ is nearly the same as خُشُوعٌ, except that the latter is mostly used in relation to the voice [or the eyes]; but the former is used as meaning in the necks: (Msb:) or the former is in the body, ('Eyn and K in art. خشع,) and signifies the acknowledgment of humility and submission; ('Eyn;) and the latter is in the voice and in the eyes. ('Eyn and K ubi suprà.) It is said in a trad. respecting the [devils'] hearing [the words of the angels] by stealth, خُضْعَانًا لِقَوْلِهِ [ With submissiveness to his saying, or to what he said ]; or, accord. to one relation, خِضْعَانًا; but it may be a pl. of خَاضِعٌ; and accord. to another relation, it is خُضَّعًا, which is a pl. of خَاضِعٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- He was, or became, still, (K, TA,) and tractable, or submissive. (TA.) ― -b3- He made his words soft to a woman; as also ↓ اخضع: (L:) or the latter signifies his speech was soft to a woman. (O, K.) It is said in the Kur [xxxiii. 32], فَلَا تَخْضَعْنَ بِالقَوْلِ Then be ye not soft in speech. (TA.) And you say, خَضَعَ لَهَا بِكَلَامِهِ وَخَضَعَتْ لَهُ وَتَطَمَّعَ فِيهَا [ He was soft to her in speech, and she was soft to him, and he became excited to feel an eager desire for her, or to lust after her ]; (TA;) and in like manner, ↓ خَاضَعَها, (K, * TA,) inf. n. مُخَاضَعَةٌ, (TA,) [ he was soft in his speech to her, she being soft in her speech to him. ] And خَضَعَا بَيْنَهُمَا حَدِيثًا They two (a man and a woman) made soft discourse together, saying that which excited each to feel an eager desire for, or to lust after, the other. (TA from a trad.) ― -b4- خَضَعَ, aor. خَضَعَ , inf. n. خَضْعٌ, [or, as in two copies of the S, خَضَعٌ, though it seems that the verb is correctly خَضَعَ, not خَضِعَ,] He had a natural stooping of the neck: (TA:) and he bent himself, or became bent; as also ↓ اخضع. (Zj.) And ↓ اختضع, said of a hawk, He lowered his head to make a stoop, or to pounce down. (Z, TA.) ― -b5- [Hence,] خَضَعَتِ الاـِبِلُ (tropical:) The camels strove, or exerted themselves, or hastened, in their pace, or going; (K;) because, when they do so, they lower their necks. (TA.) And ↓ اختضع, (K,) said of a horse, (IAar,) [for the same reason,] (assumed tropical:) He went quickly, or swiftly. (IAar, K.) ― -b6- خَضَعَ النَّجْمُ (tropical:) The star, or asterism, inclined (S, K, TA) to the place of setting, (S, TA,) or to setting: (K, TA:) and in like manner, خَضَعَتِ الشَّمْسُ (tropical:) the sun inclined &c.; like خَدَعَت: (TA:) and خَضَعَتْ أَيْدِى الكَوَاكِبِ (tropical:) the stars inclined to setting. (Aboo- 'Adnán, TA in art. خشع.) -A2- خَضَعَهُ He, or it, rendered him still (K, TA) [ and submissive: see 1]: the verb being both intrans. and trans. (TA.) [See also 4.] ― -b2- Also, (K,) inf. n. خَضْعٌ and خُضُوعٌ, (TA,) He, or it, caused him to have a stooping neck; as also ↓ اخضعهُ; (K;) i. e., bent him: (TA:) said of old age. (TK.) Jereer says, أَعَدَّ ا@للّٰهُ لِلشُّعَرَاآءِ مِنِّى صَوَاعِقَ يَخْضَعُونَ لَهُ الرِّقَابَا [ God hath prepared, for the poets, from me, thunderbolts which make the necks to stoop to Him ]. (TA.) ― -b3- خَضَعَ فُلَانًا اـِلَى السَّوْءَةِ; in the K الى السُّوءِ, but the former is the right; inf. n. خُضُوعٌ; (TA;) He, or it, invited such a one to that which was foul, abominable, or evil. (K, TA.)