لوذ

1 لَاذَ بِهِ, aor. ـُ (S, A, L, Msb,) inf. n. لَوْذٌ (S, L, K) and لِيَاذٌ (S, A, L, K) and لِوَاذٌ (L, Msb, K) and لَوَاذٌ and لُوَاذٌ, (Msb, K,) He had recourse to it, (a mountain [&c.], Msb,) or him, for refuge or protection or preservation; (S, A, L, Msb;) as also به ↓ لاوذ, inf. n. لِوَاذٌ; (A;) and به ↓ الاذ; (Msb;) sought, or took, refuge in it, or him; (S, L;) and joined himself to him; and sought, desired, implored, or called for, aid, or succour, of him: (L:) he protected, concealed, defended, or fortified himself by it, (L, K,) or him; (L;) as also به ↓ لاوذ, (L,) inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ (L, K) and لِوَاذٌ; (L;) and ↓ الاذ. (L.) b2: لَاذَ بِهِ, (L,) inf. n. as above, in the commencement of the art., (K,) It encompassed, or surrounded, it; (L, K; *) as also ↓ الاذ, (L,) inf. n. إِلَاذَةٌ. (L, K.) You say, لَاذَ الطَّرِيقُ بِالدَّارِ, and ↓ الاذ, The road encompassed, or surrounded, the house: (L:) or, reached, or extended, to the house: (Msb:) and لَاذَتِ الدَّارُ بِالطَّرِيقِ The house encompassed, or surrounded, the road. (L.) See also 3. b3: لَاذَ بِالقَوْمِ and بِهِم ↓ الاذ, He laboured, or strove, to overcome the people in any way; expl. by the words هى المداورة من حيث ماكان. (T, L.) [Perhaps المداورة is a mistake for المُدَارَاة; see 3: the same phrases being explained in the M by دَاَراهُمْ: but there is a near resemblance between the significations of المداورة and المداراة.]3 لاوذ القَوْمُ, (S, L,) inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ and لِوَاذٌ, (S, L, K,) with which تَلْوَاذٌ is syn., (K,) The people had recourse, one to another, for refuge or protection or preservation; sought, or took, refuge, one in another; protected, concealed, defended, or fortified, themselves, one by another. (S, L, K. *) Agreeably with this explanation, (as some say, L,) لِوَاذًا is used in the Kur, xxiv. 63: were it from لَاذَ, it would be لِيَاذًا. (S, L.) b2: See 1. b3: لاوذ بِهِمْ, inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ, He went round about them, or encompassed them. (Msb.) See also 1. b4: لاوذهُ, (M, L,) inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ (K) and لِوَاذٌ, (M, L, K,) He circumvented, or deluded, him; (M, L, K; *) syn. رَاوَغَهُ (M, L) inf. n. مُرَاوَغَةٌ. (K.) b5: لاوذهُمْ (M, L) and بِهِمْ ↓ لَاذَ, and ↓ الاذ, (M,) He wheedled, beguiled, or deluded, them; syn. دَارَاهُمْ. (M, L.) لاوذ He eluded, and shunned, or avoided, thee: syn. رَاغَ عَنْكَ, and حَادَ Agreeably with this explanation, or as signifying مراوغة, some render لِوَاذًا in the Kur, xxiv. 63. (Ibn-Is-Seed, TA.) b6: لاوذهُ, (TK,) inf. n. مُلَاوَذَةٌ (K) and لِوَاذٌ, (L, K,) He acted contrarily to, or differently from, or adversely to, him; was, or became contrary to, or different from, or adverse to, him; (L, * K, * TK;) syn. خَالَفَهُ, (TK,) inf. n. خِلَافٌ. (L, K.) Agreeably with this explanation, Zj renders لِوَاذًا in the Kur, xxiv. 63; saying that the meaning which he thus assigns to it is shown to be the true one by the words immediately following. (L.) 4 أَلْوَذَ see 1: b2: and 3. b3: الاذ بِهِ غَيْرَهُ [He caused another to have recourse to him or it for refuge or protection or preservation; to seek, or take, refuge in him or it; to protect, conceal, defend, or fortify, himself by him or it: or he protected, concealed, defended, or fortified, another by means of him or it]. (A.) b4: الاذت النَّاقَةُ الظِّلَّ بِخُفِّهَا (tropical:) [The she-camel covered, or concealed, the shade with her foot]; meaning that the time of noonday-heat was come. (A.) لَوْذٌ The side of a mountain; and its circuit: pl. ألْوَاذٌ. (S, A, L, K.) b2: A side, or lateral part or tract, of a country or region: (A:) and of a thing; (TA;) as also ↓ لَوْذَانٌ: (K:) pl. as above. (A.) b3: A place of bending of a valley: pl. as above. (L, K.) b4: هُوَ بِلَوْذِ كَذَا, and كَذَا ↓ بِلَوْذَانِ, He, or it, is in the side of, or part adjacent to, such a place or thing. (L.) b5: هُوَ لَوْذَهُ He is near to him or it. (L.) لَوْذَانٌ: see لَوْذٌ.

لَوْذَانِيَّةٌ, (as in some copies of the K,) or لَوَذَانِيَّةٌ, (as in others and in the TA,) Circumvention; delusion; syn. مُرَاوَغَةٌ. (K.) See 3.

مَلَاذٌ and ↓ مِلْوَذَةٌ [the latter thus in the K and accord. to the TA; but in the TT, مَلْوَذَة; and in the L, without the first vowel-sign;] A place to which one has recourse for refuge, protection, preservation, or concealment; a place of refuge; a refuge; (TA;) a fortress; a fortified place; a castle. (L, K.) مَِلْوَذَةٌ: see مَلَاذٌ.

خَيْرٌ مُلَاوِذٌ (tropical:) Little good: (S:) or good that comes not save after severe toil or labour: occurring in a verse of El-Katámee: you say, خَيْرُ بَنِى فُلَانٍ مُلَاوِذٌ The good of the sons of such a one comes not save after severe toil or trouble to procure it. (ISk, T, L.) تَلْوَاذٌ: see 3.

ضب

1 ضَبَّ, aor. ـِ (K,) inf. n. ضَبٌّ, (S, K,) He, or it, clave to the ground: (S, * K:) [like ضَبَأَ:] this is the primary signification. (S.) b2: And, aor. and inf. n. as above, It flowed: (K, TA:) like بَضَّ: or it flowed gently, or scantily; as blood when it does not drop, or issue in drops, so as to require the repetition of the ablution for prayer: (TA:) or it is only said of blood and of saliva: (K:) or, aor. as above, inf. n. ضَبِيبٌ, said of water and of blood, it flowed. (S.) and ضَبَّتْ شَفَتُهُ, aor. as above, inf. n. ضَبٌّ and ضُبُوبٌ, His lip flowed with blood, from a tumour &c. (TA. [See also another meaning in what follows.]) And ضَبَّتْ لِثَتُهُ دَمًا His gum flowed with blood: (S:) or ضبّت بِالدَّمِ: and in like manner, يَدُهُ [his hand or arm]: (A:) and تَرَكْتُ لِثَتَهَ تَضِيبُّ مِنَ الدَّمِ, inf. n. ضَبِيبٌ, I left his gum flowing with blood. (TA.) ضَبَّتع لِثَتُهُ, aor. as above, inf. n. ضَبٌّ, means His gum watered, or flowed with saliva. (TA.) And one says, جَآءَ فُلَانٌ تَضِبُّ لِثَاتُهُ (tropical:) [Such a one came with his gums watering] (S, A *) لِكَذَا وَكَذَا [for such and such things], (A,) when the person spoken of is vehemently eager, or greedy, for a thing, (S, A,) or when he is affected with very inordinate desire to eat, or with vehement lust, or carnal desire, or with vehement eagerness, or greediness, for the accomplishment of an object of want. (L, TA.) Bishr Ibn-Abee-Kházim says, وَبَنِى تَمِيمٍ قَدْ لَقِينَا مِنْهُمُ خَيْلًا تَضِيبُّ لِثَاتُهَا لِلْمَغْنَمِ (assumed tropical:) [And the sons of Temeem, we have found, of them, horsemen whose gums water for spoil]: in which تَضِبُّ is said by AO to be formed by transposition from تَبِضُّ. (S.) [See another ex. in a verse cited voce أَزْمَلٌ.] Another poet says, أَبَيْنَا أَبَيْنَا أَنْ تَضِبَّ لِثَاتُكُمْ عَلَى خُرَّدٍ مِثْلِ الظِّبَآءِ وَجَامِلِ (assumed tropical:) [We disallow, we disallow, that your gums should water for virgins, or bashful virgins, like gazelles, and for camels]. (TA.) One says also, ضَبَّ فَمُهُ, aor. as above, inf. n. ضَبٌّ, meaning His mouth watered, or flowed with saliva: (TA:) and يَضِبُّ فُوهُ (tropical:) [His mouth waters] is said of him who is vehemently eager, or greedy, for a thing. (A, TA.) b3: ضَبَّتِ الدَّابَّةُ, aor. as above, inf. n. ضُبُوبٌ, means The beast staled while running. (TA.) A2: See also 4, in five places.

A3: ضَبَّ said of a boy, or male child, He became a youth, or young man; he attained to the state termed شَبَاب. (TA.) A4: ضَبَّتِ الشَّفَةُ, aor. as above, (Msb, K,) inf. n. ضَبٌّ and ضُبُوبٌ, (K,) The lip became affected with the disease termed ضَبّ. (Msb, K. [See also another meaning in what precedes.]) A5: ضَبَّ, (S, K,) sec. Pers\.

ضَبِبْتَ, (TA,) aor. ـَ inf. n. ضَبَبٌ, said of a camel, He became affected with the disease termed ضَبّ (S, K) in his فِــرْسِن [i. e. in his foot, or the extremity of his foot]. (S.) A6: ضَبِبَ البَلَدُ, (ISk, S,) or ضَبِبَتِ الأَرْضُ, aor. ـَ and ضَبُبَت; (K;) [instances of reduplicative verbs preserving their original forms;] and ↓ أَضَبَّ, (S,) or أَضَبَّت; (Msb, K;) The country, or land, abounded with [the lizards called] ضِبَاب, pl. of ضَبّ. (S, Msb, K.) A7: ضَبَّ النَّاقَةَ, aor. ـُ (S, O,) inf. n. ضَبٌّ, (O, K,) He milked the camel with five fingers [i. e. with his thumb and four fingers together]: (S, O:) or with the whole hand: (K: or this mode of milking is termed ضَفٌّ: TA:) or by putting his thumb upon the teat and turning the fingers over the thumb and the teat together: (Fr, S, O, K: this is done when the teat is long: when it is of middling length, the mode termed بَزْمٌ is adopted, with the joint of the fore finger and the extremity of the thumb: and when it is short, the mode termed فَطْرٌ, with the extremity of the fore finger and the thumb: TA:) or by taking the two teats together in the hand: (K: [or this mode of milking is termed ضَفٌّ:] and the milking with a hard squeezing is termed ↓ ضَبَّةٌ: TA:) or by contracting the hand upon the udder, and putting the thumb in, or upon, (فِى,) the middle of the palm. (L, TA.) A8: [ضَبَّ and ↓ ضبّب, each probably followed by عَلَى, seem to signify sometimes It covered a thing, and became intermixed with it: the inf. ns. الضبب (which I think to be a mistranscription for الضَّبُّ) and التضبيب are expl. in the TA as signifying “ the covering a thing, and the entering of one part, or portion, of it into another: ” see two explanations of each of these verbs, followed by عَلَى, voce أَضَبَّ.]2 ضَبَّّ see above, last sentence: b2: and see 4, in two places.

A2: ضبّب عَلَى الضَّبِّ He moved about his hand at the mouth of the hole of the [lizard called] ضَبّ, in order that it might come forth tail-foremost, and he might lay hold upon its tail. (TA. [See also مُضَبِّبٌ.]) A3: ضبّب البَابَ, (S, Msb, K, * TA,) and الخَشَبَ, (TA,) (tropical:) He put [or affixed] a ضَبَّة [q. v.] upon the door, (S, Msb, K, * TA,) and upon the wood. (TA.) And ضبّب الإِنَآءَ (assumed tropical:) He made a ضَبَّة for the vessel. (Msb.) and ضبّب أَسْنَانَهُ بِالفِضَّةِ (assumed tropical:) He clamped his teeth (شَدَّهَا) with silver. (Mgh.) b2: [تَضْبِيبٌ also signifies The putting the numeral or &c. over each of two words, to indicate that the latter of those words in connected with, or refers to, the former of them.]

A4: ضبّب الصَّبِىَّ He fed the child with ضَبِيبَة [q. v.]. (S, K.) 4 اضبّ عَلَى شَىْءٍ He kept, or clave, to a thing, and did not quit it: (TA:) and اضبّ فُلَانًا He kept, or clave, to such a one, and did not quit him: (K:) and اضبّ عَلَيْهِ He retained him, detained him, or held him in custody: (Az, K, TA:) and اضبّ مَا فِى يَدَيْهِ He grasped, or kept hold of, that which was in his hands; like أَضْبَأَ and أَضْبَى. (TA in art. ضبأ.) And the first of these phrases, (TA,) inf. n. إِضْبَابٌ; (K, TA;) as also ↓ ضَبَّ, [aor. ـِ (TA,) inf. n. ضَبٌّ; (K, TA;) and ↓ ضبّب, (TA,) inf. n. تَضْبِيبٌ; (K, TA;) signifies اِحْتَوَى عَلَيْهِ [i. e. He grasped it; got, or gained, possession of it; took it, got it, or held it, within his grasp, or in his possession: or it comprised, comprehended, or contained, it]: (K, TA:) and عَلَى شَىْءٍ ↓ ضَبّ, inf. n. ضَبٌّ, He took, seized, or grasped, a thing with the hand: (TA; but only the inf. n. in this case is there mentioned:) and عَلَى شَىْءٍ ↓ ضبّب, inf. n. تَضْبِيبٌ, He took, seized, or grasped, a thing violently, or firmly, lest it should escape from his hand. (ISh, O, TA. [See also 1, last sentence.]) b2: [It is said that] اضبّ عَلَيْهِ also signifies He was at the point of getting possession of it, namely, a thing (O, K) that he sought, or desired. (K.) [But it seems from a passage in the TA, in which is an evident mistranscription, that this is a mistake, originated by Lth, for أَضْبَى.]

A2: اضبّ السِّقَآءُ The skin shed, or poured forth, its water, from a seam, or suture, (خُرْزَة,) therein, (K, TA,) or from a cut. (TA.) [And اضبّ app. signifies He had a bleeding of the gums: for] ما زال مضبًّا [app. ↓ مُصِبًّا] occurs in a trad. said of one whose gums bled [incessantly] when he spoke. (TA.) b2: اضبّ فِى الغَارَةِ He arose, and made a hostile incursion: (TA:) or اضبّ, alone, he made a hostile incursion. (K.) And اضبّ القَوْمُ The people, or party, rose, or rose and hastened and went forth, all together, to do a thing. (O, K.) b3: اضبّوا لِفُلَانٍ They dispersed themselves to seek such a one: and اضبّ القَوْمُ فِى بَغِيَّتِهِمْ The people, or party, dispersed themselves in search of their stray beast. (T, TA.) And اضبّ النَّعَمُ The camels, or cattle, approached, or came, in a scattered state. (K.) b4: اضبّوا عَلَيْهِ They multiplied against him. (S, O.) b5: اضبّت الأَرْضُ The land became abundant in its plants, or herbage. (K. [But the only meaning of this phrase commonly known is one which will be found indicated below.]) Accord. to Ibn-Buzurj, (TA,) one says, اضبّت الأَرْضُ بِالنَّبَاتِ, meaning The land put forth all its plants, or herbage. (O, TA.) And اضبّ الشَّعَرُ The hair became abundant, or much. (K) A3: أَضْبَبْتُهُ I made it to flow; namely, water, and blood. (S.) And اضبّ لِثَتَهُ He made his gum to flow [with blood]. (S, O.) b2: And اضبّ He spoke; (Az, S, O, K;) as though meaning he made speech to issue: (S, O: [in both of which it is implied that it is app. from what here next precedes:]) or he spoke uninterruptedly: (TA:) or he talked loudly; as also ↓ ضَبَّ [aor. ـِ (AA, TA in art. هضب: [but it will be seen in what follows that both of these verbs have also a contr. meaning:]) and he called out, or cried out, (K, TA,) and raised a clamour, or confused noise. (TA.) And اضبّ القَوْمُ The people, or party, spoke, one to another: (TA:) or spoke; and entered, or launched forth, into discourse, or were profuse therein: (AHát, TA:) or spoke all together. (Har p. 543.) and اضبّ مَا فِى نَفْسِهِ He uttered, or expressed, what was in his mind. (As, TA. [See also the same phrase with عَلَى after the verb in what follows.]) b3: Also, (TA,) inf. n. إِضْبَابٌ; (K, TA;) and ↓ ضَبَّ, (TA,) [aor. ـِ inf. n. ضَبٌّ; (K, TA;) He was silent. (K, TA. [Thus both of these verbs have two contr. meanings.]) And اضبّ القَوْمُ The people or party, were silent, and abstained from talking. (AHát, TA.) And اضبّ عَلَى الشَّىْءِ, and ↓ ضَبَّ; and اضبّ بِهِ; He was silent respecting the thing [and concealed it]: like

أَضْبَأَ. (TA.) And اضبّ عَلَى مَا فِى نَفْسِهِ He was silent respecting that which was in his mind: (As, S, K:) like أَضْبَأَ. (S.) And اضبّ عَلَى غِلٍّ

فِى قَلْبِهِ He concealed rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite, in his heart. (S, O.) And اضبّ الشَّىْءَ He hid, or concealed, the thing. (K, * TA.) b4: اضبّ الغَيْمُ The clouds covered [the earth]. (TA.) b5: And اضبّ said of a day, (S, O, Msb, K,) and اضبّت said of the sky, (A, TA,) It became cloudy, or misty, with ضَبَاب [q. v.]. (S, O, Msb, K, TA.) A4: اضبّ البَلَدُ and اضبّت الأَرْضُ: see 1, latter half.5 تضبّب (assumed tropical:) He (a child) became fat, and his armpits became chapped, or cracked, (اِنْفَتَقَتْ,) [in the creases,] and his neck became short: (S:) or (tropical:) he (a child) began to grow fat: (A, TA:) and accord. to AHn, it is said in this sense of a camel as well as of a human being. (TA.) 10 خُذْ مَا اسْتَضَبَّ Take thou what is easily attainable; what offers itself without difficulty. (AA, TA in art. ندب.) R. Q. 1 ضَبْضبَ He bore rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite; or hid enmity, and violent hatred, in his heart. (O, TA.) ضَبٌّ [A species of lizard; termed lacerta caudiverbera, from its habit of striking with its tail; (see جَرَشَ;) Forskål (Descr. Animalium, p. 13,) terms it lacerta Aegyptia; referring to Hasselquist, p. 302; and adds the following description: “ femora teretia sine verrucis: cauda verticillata non longa: squamæ patentes, subconicæ mucronatæ: corpus nudum, rugosum: ”] a certain reptile, or small creeping thing, (S, TA,) of those termed حَشَرَات, (TA,) well known; (K, TA;) resembling the وَرَل [q. v., but not so long]: (TA:) or resembling the حِرْذَون [q. v.]; of which there are two species, one of the size of the حرذون, and one larger: (Msb:) accord. to 'Abd-El-Káhir, of the size of a little young crocodile; having a tail like the tail of the latter: it assumes various colours when exposed to the sun, like as does the chameleon; lives seven hundred years; drinks not water, being satisfied with the air; voids one drop of urine in every forty days; its teeth consist of one curved piece; when it has quitted its hole it knows it not; and it lays eggs, like a bird: so say IKh and Dmr and others: AM says, the وَرَل is of a lank make, with a long tail; the latter resembling that of a serpent; and the length of some exceeds two cubits; but the tail of the ضبّ is jointed, and its utmost length is a span: the Arabs deem the ورل a foul and filthy thing, and do not eat it; but they are eager to hunt and eat the ضبّ: this animal has a rough tail, serrated with jags resembling vertebræ; its colour inclines to a blackish dusty hue; and when it becomes fat, its breast becomes yellow; it eats nothing but [the locusts called] جَنَادِب, and young locusts before their wings have grown (دَبًا), and herbage, not venomous or noxious reptiles; whereas the ورل eats scorpions and serpents and chameleons and beetles: its flesh is an antidote against poisons, and women grow fat upon it: (L, TA:) it is the longest, of the animals, in retaining the remains of life: (O:) [see also مُطَبِّخٌ:] the fem. is with ة: (S, O, Msb, K:) and the pl. [of pauc.] is أَضُبٌّ and [of mult.] ضِبَابٌ (S, O, Mgh, Msb, K) and ضُبَّانٌ, (K,) which last Lh particularizes as used to denote a great number, but ISd sees no reason for this distinction, (TA,) and [quasipl. n.] ↓ مَضَبَّةٌ, (O, K,) like as مَشْيَخَةٌ is of شَيْخٌ, (O,) this last on the authority of As, as heard by him from more than one of the Arabs. (TA.) Hence one says رَجُلٌ خَبٌّ ضَبٌّ (tropical:) [A very deceitful or mischievous, and] an abominable, guileful, ireful man: (TA:) or a very deceitful or mischievous or wicked, and guileful man: (S:) likened to the [lizard called] ضَبّ on account of his guilefulness: and in like manner, اِمْرَأَةٌ خَبَّةٌ ضَبَّةٌ. (A, TA.) And أَخْدَعُ مِنَ الضَّبِّ More guileful than the ضبّ: (A, TA:) a prov. (TA.) And أَعَقُّ مِنْ ضَبٍّ [More undutiful to kindred than a ضبّ]; because the ضبّ often eats its حُسُول [or young ones when they have just come forth from the eggs]: another prov.: (S:) أَبُو حِسْلٍ is a surname of the ضبّ. (TA.) One says also أَطْوَلُ ذَمَآءً مِنَ الضَّبِّ, another prov. [expl. in art. ذمى]. (O.) And أَحْيَرُ مِنْ ضَبٍّ, which is likewise a prov. [expl. in art. حير]. (Har p. 166.) and أَتُعْلِمُنِى بِضَبٍّ أَنَا حَرَشْتُهُ, another prov. [expl. in art. حرش]. (TA.) And لَا أَفْعَلُهُ حَتَّى يَحِنَّ الضَّبُّ فِى إِثْرِ الإِبِلِ الصَّادِرَةِ [I will not do it until the ضبّ utters a yearning cry at the heels of the camels returning from water]: and لَا أَفْعَلُهُ حَتَّى

يَرِدَ الضَّبُّ [I will not do it until the ضبّ comes to water: i. e. I will never do it:] because the ضبّ does not drink water. (S, O.) كَفُّ الضَّبِّ [means The paw of the ضبّ]: to this the Arabs liken the hand of the niggard when he fails to give: (TA:) and it is also applied by way of comparison to (tropical:) a niggard himself: and to denote (tropical:) shortness and littleness. (A, TA.) b2: [Hence also,] (tropical:) Rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite, (S, A, O, Msb, K, TA,) latent in the heart; (A, TA;) like the [lizard called] ضبّ hiding itself in the furthest extremity of its hole: (A:) and anger, wrath, or rage: (K:) or rancour, &c., or vehement rancour, &c., and enmity: (TA:) and ↓ ضِبٌّ signifies the same: (K:) the pl. is ضِبَابٌ, and [app. ضِبَبٌ also, for] the phrase كُلٌّ مِنْهُمَا حَامِلُ ضِبَبٍ لِصَاحِبِهِ [Each of them a bearer of latent rancours &c. towards his fellow] occurs in a trad. (TA.) A2: Also A certain disease in the lip, (S, O, Msb, K,) in consequence of which it flows with blood, (S, O, Msb,) or swells, and becomes hard, or dry and hard, and flows with blood. (TA.) b2: And A tumour in the breast of a camel. (O, K.) b3: And A tumour (S, O, K) in the خُفّ, (so in copies of the K [i. e. foot], in the TA انف [which is, I doubt not, a mistranscription],) or in the فِــرْسِن, [which means the same, or the extremity of the foot,] (S, O,) of the camel. (S, O, K.) b4: And A disease in the elbow of a camel; (K, TA;) said to be its cutting into his skin [by rubbing against it]; or its being distorted, and falling against his side, so as to gall it. (TA.) b5: And A chapping, or cracking, (اِنَفِتَاقٌ,) [in the crease] of the armpit [of a child, or of a camel], and abundance of flesh: (S, O, TA:) El-'Adebbes El-Kinánee gives the same explanation, and says that this is what is also termed ضَاغِطٌ. (TA. [See 5.]) A3: Also The طَلْع [i. e. the spadix, or the spathe,] of the palm-tree: pl. ضِبَابٌ: (S, O:) or ↓ ضَبَّةٌ signifies, (K, TA,) and so ضَبٌّ, (TA,) [but the latter seems to be a coll. gen. n., and the former its n. un.,] a طَلْعَة [meaning spathe of a palm-tree] before it cleaves open (K, TA) from [around] the غَرِيض [or spadix]. (TA.) ضِبٌّ: see the next preceding paragraph, latter half.

ضَبَّةٌ [an inf. n. un. of ضَبَّ: as such signifying] A single bleeding of the gum [&c.]. (Ham pp. 28 and 274.) b2: See also 1, last sentence but one.

A2: Also A single [lizard of the species termed]

ضَبّ [q. v.]. (S, O, Msb, K.) b2: And The skin of a [lizard of the species termed] ضَبّ, tanned for clarified butter (K, TA) to be put into it. (TA.) b3: And (tropical:) A broad piece of iron with which a door (or wood, TA) is clamped or strengthened (يُضَبَّبُ): (S, Mgh, O, K, TA:) or a piece of iron or brass or the like, with which a vessel is repaired: (Msb:) [a word still used in these senses; commonly applied to a flat piece of iron or the like, which is nailed across a crack in a wooden vessel or a similar thing: and a band of metal which is affixed around a cracked vessel: (see an ex. voce عَصَبَ:) also to a kind of wooden lock, figured and described in the Introduction to my work on the Modern Egyptians:] what is first described above is so called because it is broad, like the reptile so termed; and also كَتِيفَةٌ, because it is broad, like a كَتِف [or shoulder-blade]: (AM, TA:) pl. ضَبَّاتٌ (A, Msb, TA) and ضِبَابٌ. (A, TA.) The ضَبَّة of a knife is The جُزْءَة [thereof; app. meaning a ferrule, or similar thing, affixed around the handle, next the blade, like the band of metal thus called which is affixed around a cracked vessel (as mentioned above); though جُزْءَةٌ generally means the “ handle ” itself]: thus called because it strengthens, or binds, the handle (تَشُدُّ النِّصَابَ). (A, TA.) b4: See also ضَبٌّ, last sentence. b5: and see ضَبِيبٌ.

أَرْضٌ ضَبِبَةٌ: see مَضَبَّةٌ.

ضَبَابٌ [Mist; i. e.] moisture (نَدًى), (A, Mgh, Msb, K,) like clouds, (A, K,) or like dust, covering the earth in the early mornings: (Mgh, Msb, TA:) or thin clouds, like smoke: (A, K:) or thin clouds; so called because they cover the horizon: n. un. with ة: (TA:) or pl. of ضَبَابَةٌ, [but it is rather a coll. gen. n., and ضَبَابَةٌ is its n. of un.,] (S, Mgh, O,) and this latter signifies a cloud that covers the earth, resembling smoke: (S, O:) or a vapour rising from the earth in a rainy, or cloudy, day, like a canopy, preventing vision by its darkness. (TA.) ضَبُوبٌ A beast that stales while running. (K.) b2: And A ewe, or she-goat, having a narrow orifice to the teat, (O, K,) whose milk will not come forth but with difficulty. (O.) ضَبِيبٌ The point, or edge, (syn. حَدّ, [in an. ex. in the O, the former is meant by it,]) of a sword; (O, K;) and so ↓ ضَبَّةٌ. (El-Khattábee, TA.) ضَبِيبَةٌ Clarified butter, and rob (رُبّ), which are put into a skin (عُكّة), for a child, that he may be fed with it. (S, K.) بنات ضبيبة [app. بَنَاتُ ضُبَيْبَةٍ; the latter word, dim. of ضَبَّةٌ;] A species [or variety] of the [lizards called] ضِبَاب [pl. of ضَبٌّ]. (Ham p. 61.) ضِبْضِبٌ Fat, as an epithet; (K;) and so [without ضُبَاضِبٌ] applied to a woman: (TA:) and ↓ ضُبَاضِبٌ, applied to a man, short and fat. (S, O.) And Very foul or obscene, and bold or daring; as also ↓ ضُبَاضِبٌ: (K:) the latter thus expl. by IDrd: (O:) the former applied to a man, and with ة applied to a woman, accord. to Az, bold, or daring, in deed: (O, TA:) and proud; or bold, or daring, in wickedness: and with ة, a woman bold, or daring; who glories over her neighbours. (TA.) ضُبَاضِبٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places. Also, applied to a man, Strong; (IDrd, O, K;) and so بُضَابِضٌ: (IDrd, O:) or short, and very foul or obscene: or hard, or hardy, and strong: (K:) and sometimes applied as an epithet to a camel. (TA.) أَضَبُّ, fem. ضَبَّآءُ, A camel affected with the disease termed ضَبّ (S, K) in the خُفّ (K) or in the فِــرْسِن. (S.) [See ضَبٌّ.]

مُضِبٌّ: see 4, in the former half.

A2: أَرْضٌ مُضِبَّةٌ: see the next paragraph.

مَضَبَّةٌ A piece of land abounding with [the lizards called] ضِبَاب [pl. of ضَبٌّ]: pl. مَضَابُّ: you say, وَقَعْنَا فِى مَضَابَّ [We found ourselves in pieces of land abounding with ضِبَاب]. (S, O.) and أَرْضٌ مَضَبَّةٌ, (K,) or ↓ مُضِبَّةٌ, (S, IAth, Mgh, Msb,) and ↓ ضَبِبَةٌ, (S, K,) the last being one of those [reduplicative] words that preserve the original form, (S,) A land abounding with ضِبَاب. (S, IAth, Mgh, Msb, K.) A2: See also ضَبٌّ, [of which it is a quasi-pl. n.,] in the former half of the paragraph.

مُضَبِّبٌ A hunter of the [lizard called] ضَبّ, who pours water into its hole, in order that it may come forth and he may take it: (S, O:) or one who seeks to catch the ضَبّ by moving about his hand at its hole in order that it may come forth tail-foremost and he may lay hold upon its tail. (K.)

خف

1 خَفَّ, aor. ـِ inf. n. خِفَّةٌ (JK, S, Msb, K, &c.) and خَفٌّ (Msb, K) and خَفَّةٌ and تَخَوُّفٌ, but this last belongs to art. خوف, (K,) contr. of ثَقُلَ [both properly and tropically]; (Msb;) properly, (TA,) It (a thing, S, Msb) was, or became, خَفِيف [i. e. light] (JK, S, Msb, K, TA) of weight, (JK,) in body, or material substance. (TA.) Hence the saying of 'Atà, in a trad., خِفُّوا عَلَى الأَرْضِ, meaning [Be ye, or bear ye, lightly upon the ground] in prostration: (A'Obeyd, TA:) or, as some relate it, ↓ خَفِّفُوا: i. e. prostrate yourselves [lightly upon the ground;] not heavily, so as to make marks, or impressions, upon your foreheads: and in another trad. it is said, ↓ إِذَا سَجَدْتَ فَتَخَافَّ When thou prostratest thyself, put thy forehead upon the ground lightly: but A 'Obeyd says that some say فَتُجَافِ, [i. e.

فَتُجَافِ عَضُدَيْكَ عَنْ جَنْبَيْكَ,] with ج. (TA [See 3 in art. جفو.]) [Hence also,] خَفَّ المِيزَانُ The balance had one of its two scales light, so that it rose. (TA.) b2: [Used tropically, it means (assumed tropical:) It, or he, was, or became, light in estimation, lightly esteemed, or of little account.] b3: and (tropical:) He was, or became, خَفِيف [i. e. light as meaning active, agile, &c.,] in work: (TA:) he was, or became, brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, prompt, and quick; syn. نَشِطَ. (Msb and TA in art. نشط.) You say, خَفَّ فِى عَمَلِهِ وَخِدْمَتِهِ (tropical:) He was, or became, [brisk, &c., or] obedient and submissive, in his work and his service: (TA:) and خَفَّ لَهُ فِى الخِدْمَةِ (tropical:) [He was, or became, brisk, &c., to him in service], aor. ـِ inf. n. خِفَّةٌ: (S:) and in like manner, خَفَّ لِفُلَانٍ (tropical:) He was, or became, [promptly] obedient and submissive, to such a one. (TA.) [Hence,] خَفَفْتُ إِلَى فُلَانٍ (assumed tropical:) [I was, or became, brisk, lively, or sprightly, in behaviour to such a one]. (S in art. هش.) and خَفَّتِ الأُنْثَى لِلْفَحْلِ (tropical:) The female was, or became, submissive to the male. (A, TA.) And خَفَّتِ الأُتُنُ لِعَيْرِهَا (tropical:) The she-asses obeyed their he-ass. (K, TA.) And خُفَّ إِلَى العَدُوِّ, inf. n. خُفُوفٌ, (assumed tropical:) He hastened to the enemy. (Msb.) And خَفَّ القَوْمُ عَنْ وَطَنِهِمْ, (K, * TA,) inf. n. خُفُوفٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) The people, or party, removed, or departed, or journeyed, quickly from their home: or, as some say, simply removed, or departed, or journeyed, from it. (TA.) b4: (tropical:) He was, or became, خَفِيف [or light] in intellect, or understanding: (TA:) [and in conduct, or behaviour: generally meaning] (assumed tropical:) he was, or became, light, inconstant, unsteady, irresolute, or fickle; or light of intellect; lightwitted; syn. طَاشَ: (Msb:) the inf. n. of the verb in this sense is خِفَّةٌ. (Msb and K &c. in art. طيش, and TA in the present art.) [But sometimes, when relating to the intellect, or understanding, it means, (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, quick, acute, or sharp; and clever, or ingenious: see خَفِيفٌ.] And you say of him whose hearing is good, فِى أُذُنِهِ خِفَّةٌ (tropical:) [In his ear is quickness, acuteness, or sharpness, of hearing]. (TA in art. ثقل.) b5: [(assumed tropical:) He was, or became, flurried, agitated, or excited, by reason of fear, and by anger, or the like: see 10. b6: (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, lighthearted, or cheerful; one whose company, or converse, was acceptable and cheering.] You say, خَفَّ فُلَانٌ عَلَى المَلِكِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one was, or became, acceptable and cheering to the king. (TA.) b7: [(assumed tropical:) It (an action, or an affair, and a case, or the like,) was, or became, light, or easy: and it become alleviated.] You say, خَفَّتْ عَلَيْهِ الحَرَكَةُ (assumed tropical:) [Motion, or moving, was, or became, easy to him]; opposed to ثَقُلَتْ. (TA.) And خَفَّتْ حَالُهُ: see 4. b8: [(assumed tropical:) It (a word) was light, or easy, of utterance: and in like manner said of a sound, (assumed tropical:) it was, or became, light to the ear; or slight. b9: (assumed tropical:) It (food) was, or became, light to the stomach; easy of digestion. b10: Said of the hair of the head, and of the beard, (assumed tropical:) It was, or became, light, thin, or scanty.] b11: Said of a people, or company of men, (قَوْمٌ,) inf. n. خُفُوفٌ, it means قَلُّوا وَقَدْ خَفَّتْ زَحْمَتُهُمْ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) They became few in number, their crowding having diminished]. (S.) b12: Said of rain, [&c.,] (assumed tropical:) It diminished; decreased; or was, or became, [light, or] deficient. (TA.) b13: [Said of a blow, a disease, an affection of the mind, &c., It was, or became, light, slight, or inconsiderable.] b14: خَفَّتْ مَنَازِلُهُمْ مِنْهُمْ وَمَضَوْا (assumed tropical:) [means Their abodes became clear of them, and they went away]. (K * and TA in art. شول.) 2 خفّفهُ He made it, or rendered it, خَفِيف [i. e. light, both properly and tropically: the tropical significations are shown by the preceding paragraph, and by explanations of خَفِيفٌ; and some by what here follows]: (Msb:) تَخْفِيفٌ is the contr. of تَثْقِيلٌ. (S, K.) b2: Hence, in the Kur [ii. 174], ذٰلِكَ تَخْفِيفٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ (assumed tropical:) [That is an alleviation from your Lord]. (TA.) Hence also, in a trad. [respecting the estimates to be made by the collectors of the poor-rate], خَفِّفُوا الخَرْصَ (assumed tropical:) [Make ye the conjectural computation of the quantity of the fruit upon palm-trees &c. light to the owners, or moderate;] go not to the utmost length in the خرص. (TA.) [And خفّف عَنْهُ (assumed tropical:) He made light, or alleviated, his burden, suffering, distress, uneasiness, or the like, by removing from him somewhat thereof; he alleviated him; he relieved him: see Kur iv. 32 and viii. 67 &c.] And خَفِّفُوا عَلَى الأَرْضِ: see 1; second sentence. [And خفّف فِى عَمَلِهِ (assumed tropical:) He relaxed, or remitted, in his work.] b3: [تَخْفِيفٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The making a word light, or easy, of utterance, by the suppression of hemzeh, or by its conversion into ا or ى or تَثْقِيلٌ; opposed to تَحْقِيقٌ and تَحْقِيقٌ: and by making a double consonant single; opposed to تَثْقِيلٌ and تَشْدِيدٌ: and by making a movent consonant quiescent; opposed to تَثْقِيلٌ and تَحْرِيكٌ: each of these changes in a word is said to be لِلتَّخْفِيفِ for the purpose of alleviating the utterance. Also, in like manner, (assumed tropical:) The making a sound light to the ear, or slight; opposed to تَثْقِيلٌ. And (assumed tropical:) The suppressing of hemzeh; opposed to تَحْقِيقٌ.]4 احفّ He made an arrow light, by scraping or paring it. (L in art. حوذ.) b2: See also 10.

A2: He was, or became, unburdened, or unencumbered, or without anything that burdened him heavily: (Msb:) or he was, or became, little burdened or encumbered, in journeying, (JK, TA,) or in his residence at home. (TA.) b2: And i. q. حَالُهُ ↓ خَفَّتْ [i. e. (tropical:) His state, or condition, was, or became, light, little encumbered, easy, or alleviated: or it was, or became, that of one having a small family to maintain: or that of having little property: or that of having little property and a small family to maintain]: (JK, S, K, TA: [see حَالٌ:]) and, as some add, رَقَّتْ [i. e., (assumed tropical:) it was, or became, narrow in its circumstances, or evil: it is used in contr. senses: though رَقَّتْ seems to be here intended as explanatory of خَفَّتْ]. (TA.) b3: اخفّ القَوْمُ (assumed tropical:) The people's beasts were, or became, خِفَاف [i. e. light as meaning active, agile, or brisk]: (Az, S:) or the people had such beasts. (K.) 5 تخفّف [He lightened his clothing; or clad himself lightly: but for this I know no other authority than modern usage]. b2: تخفّف مِنْهُ: see 10.

A2: Also He put on, or wore, a خُفّ [i. e. boot], or خِفَاف [i. e. boots]: (K, accord. to different copies:) or تخفّف بِالخُفِّ, (JK,) or تخفّف الخُفَّ, (TA,) he put on, or wore, the خُفّ (JK, TA) on the foot. (TA.) 6 تخافّ He pressed, or bore, lightly [upon a thing]; contr. of تثاقل. (K, * TA.) Hence the saying, in a trad., إِذَا سَجَدْتَ فَتَخَافَّ explained above: see 1, second sentence. (TA.) 10 استخفّهُ contr. of اِسْتَثْقَلَهُ; (S, K, TA;) He deemed it, or him, خَفِيف [i. e. light, properly and tropically]. (TA.) He found it light, or easy, to carry, (Bd in xvi. 82, and TA,) and to remove. (Bd ibid.) b2: استخفّ بِهِ (assumed tropical:) He held him, or it, (namely, a man's right, or due, or just claim, Msb, TA,) in light, or little, estimation or account, or in contempt; he contemned, or despised, him, or it. (S, Msb, TA.) b3: استخفّ الهَمْزَةَ (assumed tropical:) [He deemed the hemzeh light, or easy, of utterance]. (TA.) b4: استخفّهُ also signifies (assumed tropical:) He demanded, or desired, his خِفَّة [i. e. briskness, or promptness]; as also مِنْهُ ↓ تَخَفَّفَ: (TA:) and (assumed tropical:) it (a thing) incited him, or excited him, to briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness; syn. اِسْتَهَشَّهُ; (JK and K and TA in art. هش;) and أَطْرَبَهُ: (Har p. 139:) and (assumed tropical:) he incited him, or excited him, to lightness, levity, or unsteadiness, so as to induce him to follow him in his error: (TA:) [and simply] (tropical:) he excited him to lightness, levity, or unsteadiness; (Ksh and Bd and Jel in the Kur xxx. last verse;) flurried him, or disquieted him: (Ksh and Bd ibid.:) and (tropical:) it flurried him, so that he became unsteady; said of impatience; and of a lively emotion of the heart or mind; (TA;) and of fear; (MA;) and of anger: (T in art. حمل:) and ↓ اخفّهُ (assumed tropical:) he angered him, (TA,) and deprived him of his forbearance, moderation, patience, staidness, or calmness, and incited him, or excited him, to levity, or unsteadiness. (K, * TA.) فَاسْتَخَفَّ قَوْمَهُ, in the Kur xliii. 54, means (assumed tropical:) And he demanded, or desired, of his people, briskness, or promptness, in obeying him: or فاستخفّ أَحْلَامَهُمْ [and he held in light estimation their qualities of forbearance, moderation, patience, or staidness]: (Bd:) or he incited, or excited, his people to be promptly obedient and submissive (أَنْ يَخِفُّوا) to him and to that which he desired of them; like اِسْتَفَزَّ: (Ksh:) or he incited, or excited, his people to levity, or unsteadiness, (الخِفَّة,) and ignorance, foolishness, or wrong conduct. (Msb.) And you say, استخفّ فُلَانًا عَنْ رَأْيِهِ (assumed tropical:) He incited, or excited, such a one to ignorance, foolishness, or wrong conduct, and levity, or unsteadiness, so as to make him swerve from his right sentiment, opinion, or judgment; (Az, K, TA;) as also استفزّهُ عن رأيه. (Az, TA.) خُفٌّ A boot; (KL, PS, &c.;) a certain thing that is worn (JK, S, Msb, K, TA) upon the foot: (TA:) pl. خِفَافٌ (S, L, Msb, K) and أَخْفَافٌ [which is a pl. of pauc.]. (L, TA.) Hence, رَجَعَ بِخُفَّىْ حُنَيْنٍ [He returned with the two boots of Honeyn]; a saying which originated thus: (A 'Obeyd, TA:) an Arab of the desert bargained with Honeyn the إِسْكَاف [or maker of shoes and boots], (K,) who was of the people of El-Heereh, (TA,) for a pair of boots, until he angered him, (K,) and Honeyn desired to anger the Arab: (TA:) so when the Arab of the desert departed, Honeyn took one of his two boots and threw it down in the way, and then he threw down the other in another place; and when the Arab passed by one of them, he said, “How like is this to the boot of Honeyn ! and if the other were with it, I would take it: ” and he went on: and when he came to the other, he repented of having left the former: and Honeyn had lain in wait for him: therefore when the Arab went away in search of the former [boot], Honeyn betook himself to the camel that he rode, and what was upon it, and went away therewith; and the Arab came, having with him nothing but a pair of boots; and it was said, (K,) i. e. his people said to him, (TA,) “ What hast thou brought from thy journey? ” and he answered, جِئْتُكُمْ بِخُفَّىْ حُنَيْنٍ [“ I have brought you the two boots of Honeyn ”]: and this became a prov., applied on the occasion of one's despairing of an object of want, and returning disappointed: (K:) thus the case is related by A 'Obeyd, and by most others after him. (TA.) Accord. to ISk, Honeyn was a strong man, who asserted his relationship to Asad Ibn-Háshim Ibn-'Abd-Menáf, and came to 'Abd-El-Muttalib, wearing a pair of red boots, [formerly distinctive of kings and men of high rank,] and said, “O my paternal uncle, I am the son of Asad the son of Háshim the son of 'Abd-Menáf: ” but 'Abd-El-Muttalib said, “ No, by the garments of my father Háshim, I know not in thee the natural qualities of Háshim; therefore return thou: ” so he returned: and it was said, رَجَعَ حُنَيْنٌ بِخُفَّيْهِ [Honeyn returned with his pair of boots]. (O, K, &c.) As to the saying of the rájiz, يَحْمِلُ فِى سَحْقٍ مِنَ الخِفَافِ تَوَادِيًا سُوِّينَ مِنْ خِلَافِ he means thereby [He carries, in] a pastor's bag (كِنْف) made of the leg of a خُفّ [or boot, wooden implements to be tied upon the dugs of she-camels, made of different trees]. (S. See خِلَافٌ.) b2: The foot (KL, PS) of the camel; (S, Msb, KL, PS;) the whole (مَجْمَع) of the فِــرْسِن of the camel; (JK, K, TA;) of the male and of the female; corresponding to the حَافِر [or hoof] of the horse: (TA:) and sometimes of the ostrich, (K,) because resembling that of the camel: (TA:) but of no other than these two: (K:) of the masc. gender; whereas فِــرْسِنٌ [its syn.] is fem.: (TA:) pl. أَخْفَافٌ. (S, Msb, K.) b3: [and hence, by a synecdoche, for ذَوَاتُ خُفٍّ,] (tropical:) Camels; coupled with حَافِرٌ as meaning horses, [and sometimes asses or mules], (Mgh, TA, *) and ظِلْفٌ [as meaning sheep or goats or other cloven-hoofed beasts]. (TA.) You say, مَالَهُ خُفٌّ وَلَاحَافِرٌ وَلَا ظِلْفٌ (tropical:) [meaning He possesses not camels, nor horses or asses or mules, nor sheep or goats or other cloven-hoofed beasts]. (TA.) You say also, جَآءَتِ الإِبِلُ عَلَىخُفٍّ وَاحِدٍ, meaning (tropical:) The camels came following one another, the head of each [except the first] being at the tail of the next [before it], whether tied together in a file or not. (L.) b4: An aged camel: (K:) [and a weak camel:] or, as some say, a bulky camel: pl. أَخْفَافٌ. (TA.) It is said in a trad., يُحْمَى مِنَ الأَراَكِ مَا لَمْ تَنَلْهُ أَخْفَافُ الإِبِلِ [Of the trees called اراك, what the aged and weak of camels cannot reach may be prohibited]: i. e. what is near, thereof, to the place of pasturage is not to be prohibited, but is to be left for the aged and weak camels, that cannot go far in search of pasture: (As, O, Msb:) or what camels cannot reach (Msb, TA) by means of their اخفاف, (Msb,) by walking thereto, (TA,) may be prohibited: (Msb, TA:) or it means, what camels cannot reach with their heads may be prohibited [to be shaken or beaten off for them]. (Mgh.) b5: (tropical:) The sole, or part that touches the ground, of the foot of a man. (M, K, TA.) b6: (tropical:) A tract of ground (S, A, O, L) more rugged, (S, O, L,) or longer, (A,) than such as is termed نَعْلٌ: (S, A, O, L:) or a rugged piece of ground. (K.) خِفٌّ: see خَفِيفٌ, in four places.

A2: Also A company consisting of few persons. (S, K.) Yousay, خَرَجَ فُلَانٌ فِى خِفٍّ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ Such a one went forth among a company consisting of few persons of his companions. (S.) خِفَّةٌ an inf. n. of 1 [in almost all of its senses, proper and tropical; and much used as a simple subst., signifying Lightness: (assumed tropical:) levity: &c.]. (JK, S, Msb, K, &c.) خُفَافٌ: see what next follows, in four places.

خَفِيفٌ a part. n. of 1 [in all its senses, proper and tropical, signifying Light: &c.]: (JK, S, * Msb, K, * TA:) as also ↓ خِفٌّ [in the proper sense] (JK, * S, * Msb, K, * TA) and ↓ خُفَافٌ: (S, * K, * TA:) the first is applied to a thing; as also ↓ the second, (Msb,) which signifies anything light to carry, (TA,) [as also the first;] and light in weight but heavy in price, not incommoding the bearer: (Har p. 139:) and the first and ↓ third are also applied to a man: (S, TA:) but, as some say, the first means [light] in body [as well as in tropical senses]; and ↓ the third, (assumed tropical:) [light] in [the sense of possessing] quickness or acuteness or sharpness, and cleverness or ingeniousness: and [in like manner] خَفِيفُ القَلْبِ signifies (assumed tropical:) quick, acute, or sharp, in intellect; and خَفِيفُ الرُّوحِ, the same; or clever, or ingenious: the pl. of the first is خِفَافٌ and أَخْفَافٌ and أَخِفَّآءُ; the first of which three pls. is also pl. of ↓ خُفَافٌ: and hence, in the Kur [ix. 41], اِنْفِرُوا خِفَافًا وَثِقَالًا [explained in art. ثقل]. (TA.) ↓ خِفٌّ is also applied to a boy, (S, TA,) meaning Light to carry; (TA;) as in the saying of Imra-el-Keys, يَزِلُّ الغُلَامُ الخِفُّ عَنْ صَهَوَاتِهِ [The boy that is light to carry slips from the parts of his (the horse's) back whereon the rider sits]: (S: so in my copies:) or يُزِلُّ الغُلَامَ الخِفَّ [he makes the boy that is light to carry to slip]: and [it is said that] it means also (assumed tropical:) the hardy, strong, or sturdy, boy. (TA.) And خَفِيفٌ signifies also Little burdened or encumbered in journeying, or in residence at home; like ↓ خِفٌّ and ↓ مُخِفٌّ. (TA.) [Hence,] رَجُلٌ خَفِيفُ ذَاتِ اليَدِ (assumed tropical:) A poor man. (TA.) b2: [(assumed tropical:) Brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, prompt, and quick. Hence,] خَفِيفٌ إِلَى الخَيْرِ [(assumed tropical:) Prompt, or quick, to do good]. (TA in art. هش.) b3: [(assumed tropical:) Light, or easy, of utterance: and (assumed tropical:) light to the ear; light in sound. Hence,] النُّونُ الخَفِيفَةُ [(assumed tropical:) The lightsounding ن; as in يَفْعَلَنْ &c.]; contr. of الثَّقِيلَةُ: and also applied to the tenween. (TA.) b4: [(assumed tropical:) Light, thin, or scanty; applied to the hair of the head &c. Hence,] هُوَ خَفِيفُ العَارِضَيْنِ [(assumed tropical:) He is light, thin, or scanty,] in the hair of the two sides of the cheeks, (S and O and Msb in art. عرض,) and of the beard. (O in that art.) b5: الخَفِيفُ A certain kind of metre of verse; [namely, the eleventh;] the measure of which consists of فَاعِلَاتُنْ مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ فَاعِلَاتُنْ [in each hemistich]. (K [in which is added “ six times,” a mistake for “ six feet ”].) خَفَّافُ [A maker, or seller, of boots (خِفَافٌ, pl. of خُفٌّ).] (TA.) مُخِفٌّ: see خَفِيفٌُ.

العَوْرَةُ المُخَفَّفَةُ (assumed tropical:) The part, or parts, of the person which it is improper, but not grossly indecent, to expose: so in the law-books: see art. عور.]