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خلط

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

خِلْطٌ خلط Anything that mixes, mingles, commingles, or becomes incorporated or blended, with a thing; an admixture; (K, TA;) any kind of mixture; as a medicinal mixture; and the like: pl. أَخْلَاطٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- A kind of [ mixed ] perfume, (S, * Msb,) well known: (Msb:) pl. as above. (S, Msb.) ― -b3- [Sing. of اخلاط in the term] أَخْلَاطُ الاـِنْسَانِ The four humours of man, (K, TA,) which are the constituents of his composition; (TA;) namely, المِرَّتَانِ [ the black bile and the yellow bile ] and البَلْغَمُ [ the phlegm ] and الدَّمُ [ the blood ]. (TA in art. مزج.) ― -b4- Mixed dates of various sorts: pl. as above. (K.) ― -b5- (tropical:) A man who mixes with others, and manifests love to them; (TA;) and خِلْطَةٌ a woman who does so: (K, * TA:) and the former, (IAar, TA,) or ↓ خَلْطٌ, (K,) or this signifies [simply] مُخَالِطٌ, [see 3,] and is an inf. n. used in that sense, (TA,) and ↓ خَلِطٌ, (Lth, K,) and ↓ خُلُطٌ, (K,) which is mentioned by Sb and explained by Seer, (TA,) (tropical:) a man who mixes with others, (K, TA,) and manifests love to them, (TA,) and behaves in a blandishing manner to them , and one who casts his women and goods among men; (K, TA;) and ↓ خَلِطَةٌ in like manner, applied to a female. (TA.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) A man of mixed race: or a bastard. (As.) You say رَجُلٌ خِلْطٌ مِلْطٌ (assumed tropical:) A man of mixed race: (K, * TA:) or of faulty race: (O, TA:) or مِلْطٌ signifies one whose race and father are unknown. (As, TA.) And أَخْلَاطٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ (assumed tropical:) A medley, or mixed or promiscuous multitude or collection, of men, or people; or of the lowest or basest or meanest sort, or refuse, or riffraff, thereof; (K, * TA;) as also ↓ خَلِيطٌ, (Ibn-'Abbád, K,) and ↓ خُلَّيْطَى, (K,) and ↓ خُلَيْطَى: (Ibn-'Abbád, K:) to these (لَهُنَّ [in the CK لَهُم]) there is no sing.: (K, TA:) but خَلِيطٌ is also a sing., and has pls., as will be seen below. (TA.) ― -b7- (tropical:) Stupid; foolish; having little sense; (IAar, K;) as also ↓ خَلِطٌ: (IAar, Sgh, K:) pl. of the former أَخْلَاطٌ; (IAar, TA;) with which ↓ خُلُطٌ is syn. (TA.) ― -b8- A crooked bow, and arrow; (K;) an arrow of which the wood has grown crookedly, and which ceases not to be crooked even if it have been straightened; (S;) as also ↓ خِلِطٌ, applied to either of these. (K.) And in like manner, (assumed tropical:) a man; he being likened to such an arrow: and (assumed tropical:) a people, or company of men. (TA.)

Derived headwords

خِلْطٌ
  1. 1.
أَخْلَاطُ الاـِنْسَانِ
رَجُلٌ خِلْطٌ مِلْطٌ
أَخْلَاطٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ