خطء

4 اخطأ ذ , inf. n. اـِخْطَاآءٌ and خَاطِئَةٌ: see 1, in eight places. أَخْطَيْتُ, for أَخْطَأْتُ, should not be said: (S:) it is a word of weak authority; or a mispronunciation: (K:) but some use it; (S, Sgh, TA;) because a change of this kind is generally allowed by some of the writers on inflection. (TA.) See also 5. -A2- اخطأهُ, (S, K,) which signifies, He [or it ] missed, or failed of hitting, it [or him ], (TA,) and ↓تخاطأهُ (S, K) and ↓تخطّأهُ (K) and لَهُ ↓تخطّأ (TA) [and ↓خَطِئَهُ, as will be seen from what follows,] are syn. (S, K, TA.) [See also 2, last sentence.] You say, اخطأ الرَّامِى الغَرَضَ The archer, or thrower, missed the mark; or failed of hitting it. (TA.) And اخطأهُ السَّهْمُ The arrow [ missed it, or him, or] passed beyond it, or him: and you may also say, أَخْطَاهُ, suppressing the ء (Msb.) And اخطأ الطَّرِيقَ [ He missed the way; or] he deviated from the way. (TA.) And اخطأ نَوْؤُهُ [(assumed tropical:) His star, or asterism, missed ]; said of him who has sought an object of want and not succeeded in attaining it: (TA:) and to a person in this case one says, اخطأ نَوْؤُكَ [(assumed tropical:) Thy star, or asterism, has missed ]. (Mgh. [See also 2.]) And اخطأهُ The right, or due, was, or became, [ out of his reach, ] or far from him. (Msb.) Owfà Ibn-Matar ElMázinee says, النَّبْلُ أَحْشَاآءَهُ↓تَخَاطَأَتِ [meaning The arrows missed his bowels ]. (S.) And AO, (S,) or A' Obeyd, (TA,) says that ↓خَطِئَ and اخطأ are syn.; citing, as an ex., the saying of Imra-el-Keys, يَا لَهْفَ هِنْدٍ اـِذْ خَطِئْنَ كَاهِلَا (S, TA,) meaning [ O the grief of Hind, ] when they (the troop of horse) missed the sons of Káhil; (TA;) خطئن being here used in the sense of أَخْطَأْنَ, (S, TA,) which latter, accord. to Az, is the more proper in this case. (TA.) -A3- مَا أَخْطَأَهُ is an expression of wonder [meaning How sinful, or criminal, or intentionally-disobedient, or intentionally-wrongdoing, is he ! ] from خَطِئَ, not from أَخْطَأَ. (S.)