Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

خُورَى خور خورى خوري خوريي : see خَيْرٌ, in two places.

خَيْرَى أخير خير خيرى خيري خيريي : see خَيْرٌ.

خِيرَى أخير خير خيرى خيري خيريي : see خَيْرٌ, in two places.

[ خَيْرِىٌّ أخير خير خيرى خيري خيريي Of, or relating to, خَيْر, or good, &c.]

خِيرِىٌّ أخير خير خيرى خيري خيريي Of, or relating to, or possessing, generousness, generosity, liberality, or munificence. (Msb.) -A2- And hence, (Msb,) or [thus applied] it is an arabicized word, (S,) [from the Persian خِيرِىْ,] The مَنْثُور [or gilliflower: ] but generally applied to the yellow species thereof; [so in the present day;] for it is this from which is extracted its oil, which is an ingredient in medicines. (Msb.) [Accord. to Golius, “ Viola alba, ejusque genera: Diosc. iii. 138: ” and he adds, as on the authority of Ibn-Beytár, “ spec. luteum. ”] ― -b2- And خِيرِىُّ البَرِّ The خُزَامَى [q. v.]; because it is the most pungent in odour of the plants of the desert. (Msb.)

[ خَيْرِيَّةٌ خير خيري خيريه خيرية The quality of خَيْرٌ; i. e. goodness. ]

خِيَارٌ خيار خير a subst. from الاِخْتِيَارُ; (S, Mgh, K;) meaning Choice, or option; (Msb;) and so ↓ خِيَرَةٌ in the Kur [xxviii. 68], مَاكَانَ لَهُمُ الخِيَرَةُ They have not choice, or option; (Mgh;) or the meaning of these words is, it is not for them to choose in preference to God; (Fr, Zj;) and so, accord. to Lth, ↓ خِيرَةٌ, as being an inf. n. [or rather a quasi-inf. n., though this seems doubtful,] of اختار. (TA.) You say, اـِنَّ فِى الشَّرِّ خِيَارًا [ Verily in evil there is a choice, or an option ]; i. e. what may be chosen: a prov. (TA.) And أَنْتَ بِا@لخِيَارٍ and ↓ بِا@لْمُخْتَارِ [in some copies of the K بالمخيار, which, as is said in the TA, is a mistranscription, Thou hast the choice, or option ]; i. e. choose thou what thou wilt. (K.) And البَيْعُ صَفْقَةٌ أَوْ خِيَارٌ Selling is decisive or with the option of returning. (Mgh in art. صفق.) Hence, خِيَارُ الرُّؤْيَةِ The choice of returning [ on seeing it ] a thing which one has purchased without seeing it. (Mgh, * Msb, * KT.) And خِيَارُ المَجْلِسِ [ The choice of returning a thing purchased while sitting with the seller ]. (TA.) And خِيَارُ العَيْبِ [and النَّقِيصَةِ] The choice of returning a thing to the seller when it has a fault, a defect, or an imperfection. (KT.) And خِيَارُ الشَّرْطِ The choice of returning a thing purchased when one of the two contracting parties has made it a condition that he may do so within three days or less. (KT.) And خِيَارُ التَّعْيِينِ The choice of specifying [ for instance ] one of two garments, or pieces of cloth, which one has purchased for ten pieces [ of money, or some other sum, ] on the condition of so doing. (KT.) ― -b2- See also مُخْتَارٌ, in three places. And see خَيْرٌ, in the middle of the paragraph, where it is explained as an epithet applied to a sing. subst., either masc. or fem. See also the first sentence of that paragraph. ― -b3- It is also a pl. of خَيْرٌ [q. v.] as an epithet, (A, Msb, K,) [and as a noun denoting the comparative and superlative degrees.] -A2- Also [ A species of cucumber; cucumis sativus Linn. a fructu minore: (Delile, Flor. Aeg. Illustr., no. 927 :)] i. q. قِثَّاآءٌ: (S:) or resembling the قثّاآء; (K, &c.;) which is the more suitable explanation: (TA:) or i. q. قَثَدٌ [q. v.]: an arabicized word: (Mgh:) [from the Persian خِيَارٌ:] not Arabic. (S.) ― -b2- خِيَارُ شَنْبَرَ [ The cassia fistula of Linn.;] a well-known kind of tree; (K;) a species of the خَرُّوب, resembling a large peach-tree; (TA;) abounding in Alexandria and Misr; (K;) and having an admirable yellow flower: (TA:) the latter division [or rather the whole] of the name is arabicized [from the Persian خِيَارْ Jَنْبَرْ]. (TA.)

خُيَيْرٌ خيير : see خَيْرٌ, [of which it is the dim.,] in two places, in the latter half of the paragraph.

خَيِّرٌ خير , and its fem. خَيِّرَةٌ, and pl. fem. خَيِّرَاتٌ: see خَيْرٌ, (used as an epithet,) in eight places, in the former half of the paragraph.

خَائِرٌ ذ [ Doing good, or well: &c.:] act. part. n. of خَارَ. (S, TA.)

أَخْيَرُ ذ , and its pls. أَخَايِرُ and أَحْيَرُونَ: see خَيْرٌ, in eight places, in the latter half of the paragraph.

اِخْتِيَارِىٌّ اختيارى اختياري ٱختيار ٱختياري ٱختياريي [ Of, or relating to, the will, or choice ]. صِفَةٌ ا@خْتِيَارِيَّةٌ [meaning A quality which originates from, or depends upon, the will, or choice, i. e. an acquired quality, ] is opposed to خِلْقِيَّةٌ. (Msb in art. مدح, &c.)

مَخْيَرَةٌ مخير مخيره مخيرة [ A cause of good: and hence,] excel-lence, and eminence, or nobility: so in the phrase, فُلَانٌ ذُو مَخْيَرَةٍ [ Such a one is a possessor of eminence, &c.]. (A, TA.)

مُخَيِّرٌ مخير : see what follows.

مُخْتَارٌ مختار act. part. n. [of 8, signifying Choosing, selecting, or electing ]. (TA.) ― -b2- And pass. part. n. [of the same, signifying Chosen, selected, elected, or preferred: and choice, select, or elect; as also ↓ خِيَارٌ, which signifies like wise the best of anything; often used in this sense, as a sing. and as a pl.; and excellent, or excellent and brisk, applied to a he-camel and to a she-camel; as mentioned above, voce خَيْرٌ]. (TA.) You say also ↓ جَمَلٌ خِيَارٌ in the sense of مُخْتَارٌ [ A choice he-camel ], and نَاقَةٌ ↓ خِيَارٌ in the sense of مُخْتَارَةٌ [ A choice she-camel ]. (TA.) [See also خِيَرَةٌ.] The dim. of مُخْتَارٌ is ↓ مُخَيِّرٌ: the ت is thrown out because it is augmentative; and the ى is changed into ى because it was changed from ى in مختار: (S:) one should not say مُخَيْتِيرٌ. (El-Hareeree's Durrat el-Ghowwás, in De Sacy's Anthol. Gr. Ar. p. 49 of the Arabic text.) ― -b3- See also خِيَارٌ.

خَيْشٌ ذ Garments, or pieces of cloth, of the worst of flax: (S:) or garments, or pieces of cloth, of thin texture, and of coarse threads, made of the hards, or hurds, of flax, (K, * TA,) and of the worst thereof: (TA:) or of the coarsest of [ the stuff called ] عصب [i. e. عَصْب, q. v., in the copies of the K in my hands incorrectly written عَصَب]: (Lth, K:) or coarse flax: (Mgh:) or a cloth of coarse flax. (Har p. 544.) ― -b2- [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) A low, vile, or mean, man. (K.)

خَيْشِىٌّ ذ and ↓ خَيَّاشٌ [ A weaver, or seller, of خَيْش.The former mentioned in the K, and the latter in the TA, as surnames of men.]

خَيَّاشٌ ذ : see what next precedes.

1 خَاطَ خاط , (Msb, TA,) first pers. خِطْتُ, (S,) aor. يَخِيطُ, (Msb,) inf. n. خِيَاطَةٌ, (S, TA,) or this is a simple subst., (Msb, TK,) and the inf. n. is خَيْطٌ, (TK,) which is said in the K to be syn. with خِيَاطَةٌ, but this last is a mistake for خِيَاطٌ as signifying “thread,” (TA,) or “a thread,” (AZ, TA,) though خِيَاطٌ is also syn. with خِيَاطَةٌ, (TA,) He sewed, sewed together, or sewed up, a garment, or piece of cloth; (S, Msb, TA;) as also ↓ خيّطهُ, inf. n. تَخْيِيطٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] خَاطَ بَعِيرًا بِبَعِيرٍ (tropical:) He coupled a camel with a camel [ by tying the end of the halter of one to the tail of the other ]. (TA.) ― -b3- خَاطَتِ الحَيَّةُ, (TA,) inf. n. خَيْطٌ, (K, TA,) (tropical:) The serpent ran along upon the ground. (K, * TA.) ― -b4- ↓ خاط اـِلَيْهِ خَيْطَةً (tropical:) He passed by him, or it, [or to, or towards, him or it, ] once: or ↓ خاط خَيْطَةً he passed along quickly: (K, * TA:) and so ↓ اختاط and اِخْتَطَى. (K.) It is said by Kr to be formed by transposition from الخَطْوُ: but this is a mistake; for, were it so, they would have said, خاط خَوْطَةً, not خَيْطَةً. (ISd.) Accord. to Lth, وَاحِدَةً ↓ خاط خَيْطَةً means (assumed tropical:) He made his journey [or a journey ] without interruption. (TA.) In the A it is said that ↓ خاط فُلَانٌ خَيْطَةً means (tropical:) Such a one journeyed on, not pausing for anything: and in like manner, خاط اـِلَى مَقْصِدِهِ (tropical:) [ He journeyed on, not pausing for anything, to his place, or object, of aim ]. (TA.)

2 خَيَّطَ see 1. ― -b2- خَيَّطَ الشَّيْبُ فِى رَأْسِهِ, (S, K,) inf. n. تَخْيِيطٌ, (K,) means (tropical:) Whiteness of the hair, or hoariness, appeared upon his head (K, TA) in streaks, or lines: (TA:) it is like وَخَطَ: (S, TA:) or became like threads: (K:) and in like manner, فِى لِحْيَتِهِ in his beard. (TA.) Bedr Ibn—' Ámir El—Hudhalee says, أَقْسَمْتُ لَا أَنْسَى مَنِيحَةَ وَاحِدٍ حَتَّى تُخَيِّطَ بِالبَيَاضِ قُرُونِى (S, TA) [ I swear that I will not forget the loan (here meaning the قَصِيدَة, Skr) of one (meaning Abu—l—'Iyál [with whom he was carrying on a controversy], Skr)] until the sides of my head become streaked with whiteness: (TA:) but some read تُخَيَّطَ; and Ibn—Habeeb says that خَيَّطَ الشَّيْبُ الرَّأْسَ signifies (assumed tropical:) Whiteness of the hair, or hoariness, became conjoined and continuous upon the head, as though one part thereof were sewed to another: (IB, TA:) some read ↓ تَخَيَّطَ; and accord. to the K, you say, تَخَيَّطَ رَأْسُهُ بِالشَّيْبِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) His head became streaked, or marked as with threads, by whiteness of the hair, or hoariness: [the best reading seems to be تَخَيَّطَ, for تَتَتخَيَّطَ:] and some read تَوَخَّطَ [for تَتَوَخَّطَ, from تَوَخَّطَ as having the meaning here assigned to تَخَيَّطَ]. (TA.)

5 تَخَيَّطَ see 2.

8 اـِخْتَيَطَ see 1.

خَاطٌ خاط : see خَيَّاطٌ.

خَيْطٌ خيط Thread, or string; or a thread or string; syn. سِلْكٌ; (S, K;) the thing with which one sews; (Msb;) [often used as a coll. gen. n.; n. un. with ة;] and ↓ خِيَاطٌ [likewise] signifies the thing with which a garment, or piece of cloth, is sewed; as also ↓ مِخْيَطٌ; besides having another signification, common to it with the last, namely “a needle; ” (K;) the pl. of خَيْطٌ is أَخْيَاطٌ [a pl. of pauc.] (IB, K) and خُيُوطٌ (S, Msb, K) and خُيُوطَةٌ [both pls. of mult.]. (S, K.) It is said in a trad., وَالمِخْيَطَ ↓ أَدُّوا الخِيَاطَ, meaning [ Bring ye ] the خَيْط and the needle. (TA.) And you say, ↓ أَعْطِنِى خِيَاطًا and نِصَاحًا, i. e. [ Give thou to me ] a single خَيْط. (AZ, TA.) [أَعْطِنَى خِيَاطًا وَنِصَاحًا may, however, mean Give thou to me a needle and thread. ] ― -b2- خَيْطُ الرَّقَبَةِ (assumed tropical:) The نُخَاع [or spinal cord ] of the neck. (S, K) You say, جَاحَشَ فُلَانٌ عَنْ خَيْطِ رَقَبَتِهِ, meaning (tropical:) Such a one defended his blood. (S, O, L.) ― -b3- الخَيْطُ الأَبْيَضُ and الخَيْطُ الأَسْوَدُ, mentioned in the Kur ii. 183, mean (assumed tropical:) The true dawn, and the false dawn: (Msb:) or the whiteness of the dawn, and the blackness of night; (K, TA;) likened to a thread because of its thinness: (TA:) or the whiteness of day, and the blackness of night: (A 'Obeyd, Nh:) or the dawn that extends sideways, and the dawn that rises high, or, as some say, the blackness of night: (S:) or what appears of the true dawn, which is the مُسْتَطِير, and what extends with it of the darkness of night, which is the dawn termed the مُسْتَطِيل: (Mgh:) or what first appears of the dawn spreading sideways in the horizon, and what extends with it of the darkness of the last part of the night: (Bd:) or the dawn that rises high, filling the horizon, and the dawn that appears black, extending sideways: (Aboo-Is-hák:) or the real meaning is the day and the night. (TA.) الخَيْطَانِ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The night and the day. (L in art. وسد.) تَبَيَّنَ الخَيْطُ مِنَ الخَيْطِ means (tropical:) [ The night became distinct from the day: or] what is termed الخَيْطُ الأَبْيَضُ became distinct from what is termed الخَيْطُ الأَسْوَدُ. (TA.) And خَيْطٌ مِنَ الصُّبْحِ is also said to signify (assumed tropical:) A tint of the dawn. (TA.) [See بَرِيمُ الصُّبْحِ in art. برم.] ― -b4- خَيْطُ بَاطِلٍ (tropical:) What is called لُعَابُ الشَّمْسِ and مُخَاطُ الشَّيْطَانِ, (S, TA,) which last is explained by Z and IB as meaning what comes forth from the mouth of the spider: (TA: [the author of which says that, accord. to this explanation, this term differs from لعاب الشمس: but in so saying he seems to be in error: both evidently signify gossamer: ]) it was applied as a surname, or nickname, to Marwán Ibn-El-Hakam; because he was tall, and loose, or uncompact, in frame: (S:) or it signifies the air; syn. الهَوَاآءُ [perhaps a mistranscription for الهَبَاآءُ, occurring in another explanation hereafter]: (K:) or light entering from an aperture in a wall [ into a dark place ] (Th, K:) or خَيْطُ البَاطِلِ signifies the scattered هَبَاآء [or atoms that are seen in the rays of the sun ] entering from an aperture in a wall [ into a dark place ] when the sun is hot: and one says, فُلَانٌ أَدَقُّ مِنْ خَيْطِ البَاطِلِ (tropical:) [ Such a one is less in estimation than the scattered atoms that are seen in the rays of the sun ]; a prov., applied to him who is in an abject state; thus related, on the authority of Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà, by Az and others; but by Sgh, erroneously, أَرَقُّ مِنْ خَيْطِ بَاطِلٍ. (TA.) ― -b5- See also what next follows, in two places.

خِيطٌ خيط (As, IDrd, S, K) and ↓ خَيْطٌ (IDrd, Msb, K) and ↓ خَيْطَى (S, K) (assumed tropical:) A collection, or flock, of ostriches, (S, Msb, K, &c.,) and a swarm of locusts, (K,) and a ↓ خَيْط is sometimes of [wild] bulls or cows: (L, TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَخْيَاطٌ (IB) and [of mult.] خِيطَانٌ: (K:) ↓ which last, as also ↓ خَيْطَانٌ, signifies likewise a company of men. (TA.) [خِيطٌ may perhaps be originally خُيْطٌ, pl. of خَيْطَاآءُ, q. v.]

خَيَطٌ خيط (tropical:) Length of the neck of an ostrich, (S, TA,) and of the [ bones, such as are termed ] قَصَب thereof: or, as some say, a constant mixture of blackness with whiteness therein: or their being in an uninterrupted line, like an extended خَيْط [or thread ]. (TA.)

خَيْطَةٌ خيط خيطه خيطة [n. un. of خَيْطٌ, q. v. ― -b2- Also,] in the dial. of Hudheyl, (S,) A wooden peg or stoke, (Skr, S, K,) which is fixed in a mountain, in order that one may let himself down [ by means of a rope attached thereto ] over against the place where [ wild ] honey is deposited [ to gather it ]. (Skr.) Aboo-Dhu-eyb says, (S, TA,) describing the gathere of honey, (TA,) تَدَلَّى عَلَيْهَا بَيْنَ سِبٍّ وَخَيْطَةٍ بِجَرْدَاآءَ مِثْلِ الوَكْفِ يَكْبُو غُرَابُهَا (S, TA,) i. e. He let himself down [ over against it, meaning the place of the honey, partly ] by means of a rope (for so سِبّ signifies) and [ partly by means of ] a wooden peg or stake [to which the rope was attached, fixed] in a rock smooth like the [ leather termed ] وَكْف, i. q. نِطَع, [ the crow of which rock would fall prone upon its face for want of something therein to which to cling:] (TA:) or (in the K “ and ”) خيطة signifies a rope; (As, Az, K, TA;) [and if so, سِبّ here means “ a wooden peg, ” which is a signification assigned to it in the K in art. سب:] or, accord. to AA, a slender rope (S, L, TA) made [ of the bark ] of the tree called سَلَب: (L, TA:) and (accord. to some, TA) a string which is with the gatherer of honey, (K, TA,) and with which he pulls the rope [app. when he has detached himself from the latter to gather the honey ], it being tied to him: (TA:) or a [ tunic of the kind called ] دُرَّاعَة, [ of leather, ] which he wears. (Ibn-Habeeb, K, TA. [In the CK, دُرّاعَةٍ is erroneously put for دُرَّاعَةٌ.]) -A2- See also 1, in four places. One says also, مَااآتِيكَ اـِلَّا الخَيْطَةَ (assumed tropical:) I do not come to thee save sometime. (TA.)

خَيْطَى خيط خيطى خيطي : see خِيطٌ.

خَيْطَاآءُ خيطاآء (tropical:) A she-ostrich long in the neck. (S, K, TA.)

خَيْطَانٌ خيط خيطان and خِيطَانٌ: see خِيطٌ.

خِيَاطٌ خياط A needle; as also ↓ مِخْيَطٌ. (S, Msb, * K.) Hence the saying in the Kur [vii. 38], حَتَّى يَلِجَ الحَبَلُ فِى سَمِّ الخِيَاطِ [ Until the camel enter into the eye of the needle ]. (S.) ― -b2- See also خَيْطٌ, in three places. ― -b3- And see مَخِيطٌ.

خِيَاطَةٌ خياط خياطه خياطة The art of sewing. (Msb, TA.) [See also 1.]

خَيَّاطٌ خياط A seamster; one whose occupation is that of sewing; (Msb, K;) as also ↓ خَائِطٌ (K) and ↓ خَاطٌ. (Sgh, K. [in the CK خَاطٌّ.]) [In the present day, its predominant application is to A tailor. ] ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) One who passes along quickly. (TA.)

خَائِطٌ ذ : see خَيَّاطٌ.

مَخِيطٌ مخيط and ↓ مَخْيُوطٌ A garment, or piece of cloth, sewed: (S, Msb, K:) the ى in the former is the و of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, changed into ى because of its being quiescent and the preceding letter's being with kesr; the letter preceding it being made movent because it and the و are quiescent after the ى has fallen out; [for by dropping the ى it becomes changed from مَخْيُوطٌ to مَخْوْطٌ;] and it is made movent with kesr [and thus changed from مَخْوْطٌ to مَخِوْطٌ, which necessarily becomes مَخِيطٌ,] in order to its being known that the letter which has dropped out is ى: some say that the ى in مَخِيطٌ is the radical, and that the letter thrown out is the و of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, in order that the word with و [for its medial radical] may be known from that with ى; [so that it is changed from مَخْيُوطٌ to مَخْيُطٌ, and then to مَخْيْطٌ, and then to مَخِيطٌ;] but the former saying is the right, because the و is a formative augment, and it is not proper that such should be thrown out. (S.) ― -b2- Also, the former, (assumed tropical:) The whole of the exterior of the belly. (ISh.) ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) A place of passage; (O, L, TA;) a meaning erroneously assigned in the K to ↓ خِيَاطٌ and ↓ مَخْيَطٌ: (TA:) and particularly, (tropical:) of a serpent; (TA;) the place of creeping along of a serpent. (K, TA.)

مِخْيَطٌ مخيط : see خَيْطٌ: ― -b2- and خِيَاطٌ. ― -b3- See also مَخِيطٌ.

مَخْيُوطٌ مخيوط : see مَخِيطٌ.

1 خَيَفٌ خيف The having one of the eyes blue and the other black: (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K:) inf. n. of خَيِفٌ, aor. يَخْيَفُ: (JK, Msb: *) said of a horse, (S, Mgh, * Msb, K,) &c., (S, K,) i. e. of any animal. (S, TA.) ― -b2- Also The being wide in the sheath of the penis: (S, K:) in this sense [likewise] inf. n. of خَيِفَ: (S:) said of a camel. (S, K.) ― -b3- And [app. in like manner having for its verb خَيِفَتْ] A she-camel's being such, as is termed خَيْفَاآء [i. e. wide in the udder, or in the skin thereof, or only when it is empty of milk, and flaccid ]. (S)

2 خيّفت خيفت , (JK,) or خيّفت أَوْلَادَهَا, (TA,) (tropical:) She (a woman) brought forth her children different, one from another. (JK, TA.) ― -b2- خُيِّفَ بَيْنَهُمْ, (JK, A, K,) inf. n. تَخْيِيفٌ, (K,) (tropical:) It (a thing, JK, K, or property, A) was divided, or distributed, among them. (JK, A, K.) ― -b3- خُيِّفَتْ عُمُورُ اللِّثَةِ مِنَ الأَسْنَانِ, (JK,) or بَيْنَ الأَسْنَانِ, (K,) (tropical:) The portions of the flesh of the gums between the teeth became separated (JK, K) from the teeth. (JK.) -A2- خيّف He (a man, JK) alighted, or descended and stopped or sojourned or abode, in a place; (JK, K;) as also خيّم. (JK.) ― -b2- خيّف عِنْدَ القِتَالِ, (JK,) or عَنِ القِتَالِ, (K,) He receded, drew back, or desisted, (JK, K,) on the occasion of fight, (JK,) or from fight. (K.)

4 اخاف أخاف اخاف خاف , (JK, S, K,) inf. n. اـِخَافَةٌ; (TA;) and أَخْيَفَ; (JK, K;) said of a man, (JK, TA,) or of a party of men, (JK, S,) He, or they, alighted, or descended and stopped or sojourned or abode, in a [ tract such as is termed ] خَيْف: (JK:) and [particularly] came to the خَيْف of Minè, and there alighted, or descended and stopped &c.; (JK, * S, K;) as also ↓ اختاف. (Yoo, K.) -A2- اخاف السَّيْلُ القَوْمَ The torrent made the party, or company of men, to alight, or descend and stop or sojourn or abide, in a [ tract such as is termed ] خَيْف. (JK, Ibn-'Abbád, K.)

5 تخيّف أَلْوَانًا ذ He (a man, TA) altered so as to become of different colours. (K, TA.) ― -b2- تخيّفت الاـِبِلُ The camels took different directions in the place of pasturage (Lh, JK) &c. (Lh.) -A2- تخيّفهُ He took by little and little from it; (IAar, JK;) as also تخوّفهُ [q. v.]. (JK.)

8 اـِخْتَيَفَ see 4.

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.)

خِيفٌ خيف : see 1 in art. خوف, first sentence.

خَافَةٌ خافه خافة , accord. to Aboo-'Alee belonging to this art.: see art. خوف. (TA.)

خَيْفَةٌ خيفه خيفة A knife, (AA, K,) such as is termed رَمِيض [q. v.]. (AA, TA.) -A2- Also, (thus in the K,) or ↓ خِيفَةٌ, (so in the JK, [and app. accord. to Sgh,]) The place of resort a lion: (JK, K:) mentioned in this art. by Ibn-'Abbád; but accord. to Sgh, it may be from الخَوْفُ. (TA.)

خِيفَةٌ خيفه خيفة : see what next precedes: -A2- and see also art. خوف.

خَيْفَانٌ خيفان Locusts before their wings are fullgrown: (Lth, * K, TA:) [see جَرَادٌ:] or when they have upon them streaks of different colours, white and yellow: (S, K:) or when they have changed from their first black or yellow colour to red: (As, K:) or when yellowness has appeared in their red colour, but some of the redness remains: (AHát, TA:) or [in the CK “ and ”] emaciated red locusts of the brood of the next preceding year: (K:) accord. to Lh, you say جَرَادٌ خَيْفَانٌ, meaning locusts of different colours: (TA:) [but خيفان is generally used as a subst.:] the n. un. is with ة. (S.) ― -b2- Hence the n. un. is applied to a mare, as meaning (assumed tropical:) Brisk, sprightly, active, or agile, and leaping. (S, TA.) ― -b3- [Hence also, app.,] خَيْفَانٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ (assumed tropical:) A multitude of men. (Ibn-'Abbád, K. *) -A2- Also A certain plant of the mountains; (Ibn-'Abbád, K;) a certain herb growing in the mountain, having no leaves, rising more than a cubit in height, having a سَنَمَة [or head resembling an ear of corn ], which is green in the upper part and white below, with a white awn, or beard. (L.)

أَخْيَفُ 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.)

مَخِيفٌ مخيف : see art. خوف.