خطب

خَطْبٌ خطب خطبة (tropical:) A thing, an affair, or a business, (A, K, MF,) small or great, (K,) that one seeks, or desires, to do, (A,) syn. أَمْرٌ مَخْطُوبٌ, (Ham p. 33,) or that is, or may be, a subject of discourse: this is the primary signification: (MF:) or a great thing or affair: or a thing, or an affair, that is disliked; not one that is liked: or that is liked also: (Ham p.127:) or the cause, or occasion, of a thing or an event: (JK, S:) or an affliction; a calamity: (Msb:) [often used in this last sense in the present day:] and a state, or condition: (TA:) pl. خُطُوبٌ; (A, Msb, K;) for which خُطُب is used in a verse below. (TA.) You say, مَاخَطْبُكَ (tropical:) What is the thing, or affair, or business, that thou seekest, or desirest, to do? (A:) or what is thy cause [of coming &c.]? (S.) خَطْبٌ يَسِيرٌ and جَلِيلٌ (tropical:) [ A little, or an unimportant, and a great, or an important, thing or affair ]. (A.) And هُوَ يُقَاسِى خُطُوبَ الدَّهْرِ (tropical:) [ He endures, or he contends, or struggles, with, or against, the afflictions, or calamities, of fortune ]. (A.) El-Akhtal says, كَلَمْعِ أَيْدِى مَثَاكِيلَ مُسَلِّبَةٍ يَنْدُبْنَ ضَرْسَ بَنَاتِ الدَّهْرِ وَالخُطُبِ (assumed tropical:) [ Like the wavings of the hands of mothers bereft of many children, in mourning on account of them, bewailing the biting cruelty of the daughters of misfortune and afflictions ] : using الخُطُبِ for الخُطُوبِ. (L.)