خفو

Root entry · 13 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of faintness, dimness, or obscurity, particularly in relation to light and visibility. It extends to the idea of something being hidden or subtle, and can also refer to the appearance or manifestation of something.

Derived headwords

خَفَا البَرْقُ يَخْفُو خُفُوًّاverb

1.
lightning flashed faintlyboth
Lightning flashed faintly and intermittently across the sky.

خَفَاverb

1.
to flash faintlyclassical
To flash faintly and intermittently, referring to lightning.

خَفِيَverb

1.
to be hiddenboth
To be concealed or not apparent.

خُفُوًّاnoun

1.
faint flashingclassical
The act of lightning flashing faintly and intermittently.

خَفْوَةnoun

1.
hiddennessclassical
The state of being hidden or concealed; secrecy.

خَفِيَّةnoun

1.
hiddennessboth
The state of being hidden or concealed; secrecy.

لَمَعَverb

1.
to flash weaklyclassical
To flash weakly and intermittently, referring to lightning.

لَمَعَانًاnoun

1.
weak flashingclassical
A weak, intermittent flash, especially of lightning.

الخَفْوnoun

1.
intermittent lightningclassical
The intermittent flashing of lightning across the sky.

الخَفْوَةnoun

1.
hiddennessclassical
Secrecy or hiddenness.

أَخْفَىverb

1.
to flash faintlyclassical
To flash faintly, used in a question about lightning.

الْوَمِيضnoun

1.
flickerclassical
A brief, intermittent flash of light, distinguished from faint lightning.

العَقِيقَةnoun

1.
lightning streakclassical
A streak of lightning that splits the clouds and extends vertically without deviation.

Parallel reading

خفا البرق يخفو خفوا، بالفتح وعليه اقتصر الجوهري وخفوا، كسمو

Lightning flashed faintly, it flashes faintly, a faint flashing, with the fathah, and al-Jawhari limited himself to this, and they flashed faintly, like samā.

لمعا لمعا ضعيفا معترضا في نواحي الغيم

Faintly flashing, weakly and intermittently, crossing in the regions of the clouds.

فإن لمع قليلا ثم سكن وليس له اعتراض فهو الوميض

If it flashed a little then stopped and had no crossing, then it is the flicker.

فإن شق الغيم واستطال في الجو إلى وسط السماء من غير أن يأخذ يمينا وشمالا فهو العقيقة

If it split the clouds and extended in the sky to the middle of the sky without taking right or left, then it is the 'aqīqah.

الخفو اعتراض البرق في نواحي السماء

Al-khafū is the crossing of lightning in the regions of the sky.

أنه سأل عن البرق فقال: أخفوا أم وميضا

That he asked about the lightning and said: Was it faint flashing or a flicker?

خفا الشيء خفوا: ظهر

Something appeared faintly: it appeared faintly.

والخفوة، بالكسر: الخفية على المعاقبة

And al-khufwah, with the kasrah: al-khufyah, by way of inversion.

يقال: فعل ذلك خفية وخفوة

It is said: He did that secretly and with hiddenness.