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خيف
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaأَخْيَفُ ذ , applied to a horse, (S, Mgh, Msb,) and a camel, (TA,) and any animal, (S, TA,) Having one of the eyes blue and the other black: (S, Mgh, Msb, TA:) fem. خَيْفَاآءُ. (K, TA.) ― -b2- And, applied to a camel, Wide in the sheath of the penis. (S, K.) ― -b3- And the fem., applied to a she-camel, Wide in the udder, (K,) or in the skin thereof, (S, * K,) or only when it is empty of milk, and flaccid: pl. خَيْفَاوَاتٌ; (K;) which is extr., for a pl. like this belongs [regularly] only to a subst., and to an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (TA.) ― -b4- The pl. of أَخْيَفُ is خِيفٌ and خُوفٌ, (K, TA, [the latter erroneously written in the CK خَوْفٌ,]) with kesr and damm. (TA.)
Derived headwords
أَخْيَفُ
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