خيف

خَيْفٌ خيف [sing. of أَخْيَافٌ]. You say, النَّاسُ أَخْيَافٌ (tropical:) Men, or the people, are different, one from another, (JK, S, A, Sgh, Msb, K, *) in their states, or conditions, (JK,) or in their forms, shapes, or semblances; (Sgh;) or of various sorts in natural dispositions, and in forms, shapes, or semblances: (L:) from خَيَفٌ signifying the “ having one of the eyes blue and the other black. ” (S. [See 1.]) And أَخْيَافٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) or اـِخْوَةٌ أَخْيَافٌ, (S, K,) (assumed tropical:) Brothers who are sons of one mother but of different fathers: (S, Mgh, Msb, * K:) and in like manner, بَنُو الأَخْيَافِ, if of good authority. (Mgh.) ― -b2- And hence, أَبْيَاتٌ أَخْيَافٌ (tropical:) Verses diversified by having one word thereof composed of dotted letters and another composed of letters not dotted. (Har p. 611 and 612.) ― -b3- Also, the sing., Land, (ISd, TA,) or a place, (Mgh,) of which the stones are of different colours. (ISd, Mgh, TA.) ― -b4- A side, region, quarter, or tract; syn. نَاحِيَةٌ. (K.) ― -b5- The part that slopes down from the rugged portion of a mountain and rises from the channel in which the water flows; (S, K;) whence مَسْجِدُ الخَيْفِ [the mosque of the خيف] in Minè: (S) or an elevated place, like the خيف of Minè: (Mgh:) or the part, of a valley, that rises a little from the channel in which the water flows, and only between two mountains; and hence مسجدالخيف, originally مَسْجِدُ خَيْفِ مِنًى: (Msb:) and any declivity and acclivity at the foot of a mountain: and a white place in the black mountain that is behind Aboo-Kubeys; and hence the name of مسجدالخيف; or this is so called because it is [in] a نَاحِيَة [or side &c.] of Minè; or because it is at the foot of a mountain: (K:) pl. [of pauc.] أَخْيَافٌ (TA) and [of mult.] خُيُوفٌ. (Mgh, TA.) ― -b6- Also The skin of the udder: (S, K:) or the side of the udder: or the skin of the she-camel's udder: (K:) or a she-camel's udder: or the anterior part of her neck: and the skin of her podex. (JK.)