خطب

أَخْطَبُ ذ Of the colour termed خُطْبَةٌ. (K.) ― -b2- An ass, (S, A, K,) i. e. a wild ass, (TA,) of a colour tinged with خُضْرَة [here meaning a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour ]: (S, K:) or of a dustcolour suffused with خُضْرَة: (A:) or having a black line, or stripe, along the middle of the back: (Fr, S, K:) fem. خَطْبَاآءُ, applied to a she-ass; (Fr, S;) and likewise to a she-camel. (S, A.) ― -b3- See also خُطْبَةٌ. ― -b4- حَمَامَةٌ خَطْبَاآءُ القَمِيصِ [ A pigeon of the colour termed خُطْبَةٌ]. (A.) ― -b5- يَدٌ خَطْبَاآءُ, (K,) and أَنَامِلُ خُطْبٌ, (TA, [خُطْبٌ being the pl.,]) [ A hand, and fingers' ends, ] of which the darkness of the dye imparted by حِنَّاآء has faded: (K, TA:) and in like manner the epithet [أَخْطَبُ] is sometimes applied to the hair. (TA.) One says also اِمْرَأَةٌ خَطْبَاآءُ الشَّفَتَيْنِ [ A woman pale in the lips; whose lips have lost their deep red hue ]. (A.) ― -b6- حَنْظَلٌ أَخْطَبُ, (K,) or ↓ خُطْبَانٌ, (S,) Colocynths that are yellow, (S,) with green stripes: (S, K:) fem. (applied to a single colocynth, which is termed حَنْظَلَةٌ, TA) خَطْبَاآءُ, with which ↓ خُطْبَانَةٌ is syn.: the pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of this last [or pl. of أَخْطَبُ] is ↓ خُطْبَانٌ, and ↓ خِطْبَانٌ, which is extr. [with respect to rule]. (K.) And ↓ خُطْبَانٌ (a pl. of أَخْطَبُ, JK) also signifies Green leaves of the سَمُر. (JK, K.) ― -b7- الأَخْطَبُ The [ bird called ] شَقِرَّاق; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) called in Persian, accord. to a marginal note in a copy of the S, كَاسْكِينَةْ: (TA:) or the [ bird called ] صُرَد; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) because it has a mixture of black and white. (TA.) ― -b8- And The صَقْر [or hawk ]. (K.) ― -b9- And A certain creeping thing (دُوَيْبَّة) of a green colour, longer than the locust, having six legs; called in Persian شش Pايه, and سبوشكنك. (Mgh.)