خل

خُلَّةٌ خل خله خلة an inf. n. [or rather quasi-inf. n.] of خَالَّهُ, q. v.: (JK:) True, or sincere, friendship, love, or affection; as also ↓ خُلُولَةٌ and ↓ خُلَالَةٌ and ↓ خَلَالَةٌ and ↓ خِلَالَةٌ: (S:) or all these signify a particular true or sincere friendship, or love, or affection, in which is no unsoundness, or defect, and which may be chaste and may be vitious: (K: [in which all are said to be substs., except خُلَّةٌ, as though this were properly speaking an inf. n., though having a pl., as shown below:]) [and sometimes simply friendship: see an ex. in a verse cited voce مَرْحَبٌ, in art. رحب:] or خُلَّةٌ and ↓ خَلَّةٌ, (Msb,) or ↓ خِلٌّ and ↓ خِلَّةٌ, each with kesr, (K,) signify true, or sincere, friendship, or love, or affection, (Msb, K,) and brotherly conduct: the last two as used in the phrases, اـِنَهُ ↓ لَكَرِيمُ الخِلِّ and ↓ الخِلَّةِ [ Verily he is generous in respect of true, or sincere, friendship, &c.]: (K:) the pl. of خُلَّةٌ in the sense explained above is خِلَالٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- See also خَلِيلٌ, in three places. -A2- A kind of plants or herbage [or trees ]; (JK, S, Msb, K;) namely, the sweet kind thereof; (S, K;) not حَمْض: (JK:) or any pasture, or herbage, that is not حَمْض; all pasture, or herbage, consisting of حَمْض and خُلَّة, and حَمْض being such as has in it saltness [or sourness]: (TA:) the [ kind of plant, or tree, called ] عَرْفَج; and every tree that remains in winter: (JK:) accord. to Lh, it is [applied to certain kinds ] of trees &c.: accord. to IAar, peculiarly of trees: but accord. to A'Obeyd, [ shrubs, i. e.] not including any great trees: (TA:) and a certain thorny tree: also a place of growth, and a place in which is a collection, of [the plants, or trees, called] عَرْفَج: (K:) and any land not containing [ the kind of plants, or herbage, or trees, called ] حَمْض; (AHn, K;) even though containing no plants, or herbage: (AHn, TA:) the pl. is خُلَلٌ: (K:) one says أَرْضٌ خُلَّةٌ and أَرَضُونَ خُلَلٌ: ISh says that أَرْضٌ خَلَّةٌ and خُلَلُ الأَرْضِ mean land, and lands, in which is no حَمْض, sometimes containing [ thorny trees such as are called ] عِضَاه, and sometimes not containing such; and that خُلَّةٌ is also applied to land in which are no trees nor any herbage: (TA:) some say that خُلَّةٌ, as meaning the pasture, or herbage, which is the contrary of حَمْض, has for a pl. خِلَالٌ, and then, from خِلَال is formed the pl. أَخِلَّةٌ: and some say that this last means herbage that is cut (وَا@جْتُزّ ↓ اُخْتُلّ [in which the latter verb seems to be an explicative adjunct to the former]) while green. (Ham p. 662, q. v.) They say that the خُلَّة is the bread of camels, and the حَمْض is their fruit, (JK, T, Sudot;, TA,) or their flesh-meat, (S, TA,) or their خَبِيص. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, by way of comparison, it is applied to (tropical:) Ease, or repose; freedom from trouble or inconvenience, and toil or fatigue; or tranquillity; and ampleness of circumstances: and حَمْض, to evil, and war: (T, TA:) and the former, to life: and the latter, to death. (Ham p. 315.) ― -b3- Also Acid, or sour, leaven or ferment. (IAar, TA.)