خفى

خَافِيَةٌ خافي خافيه خافية contr. of عَلَانِيَةٌ [app. meaning that it signifies A state of being unapparent or not apparent, covert, secret, private, or clandestine: though explained in the TK (followed by Freytag) as an epithet applied to a man, meaning whose actions are always covert ]. (K.) ― -b2- See also خَفًا. ― -b3- And see خَافٍ, in four places. ― -b4- Also One, i. e. a single feather, of the feathers called الخَوَافِى: (TA:) الخَوَافِى signifies the feathers below the ten that are in the fore part of the wing: (As, S:) or certain feathers that are concealed when the bird contracts its wing: (K:) or the four feathers that are [ next ] after those called المَنَاكِب, (Lh, K, *) and next before those called الأَبَاهِر: (S in art. بهر, and L in art. نكب:) or seven feathers in the wing, after the seven foremost: (K, * TA:) but the people [generally] mention them as four: or they are the small feathers in the wing of a bird. (TA.) خَنْجَرٌ مِثْلُ خَافِيَةِ النَّسْرِ [ A dagger like the خافية of the vulture ], occurring in a trad., means a small خنجر. (TA.) One says also خَافِيَةُ الغُرَابِ [ The خافية of the crow ]: and the pl. is [sometimes expressed by using the coll. gen. n., saying] الغُرَابِ ↓ خَافِى. (JK.) ― -b5- الخَوَافِى also signifies The palm-branches [ next ] below the قِلَبَة [which latter are the branches that grow forth from the heart of the tree ]: (S, TA:) thus called in the dial. of Nejd: (TA:) in the dial. of El-Hijáz called العَوَاهِنُ. (S, TA.)