كثر

1 كَثُرَ, aor. ـُ (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. كَثْرَةٌ (Msb, TA) and كِثْرَةٌ, or this is erroneous, (Msb,) [and perhaps كُثْرَةٌ, and كُثْرٌ, or these are simple substs., (see كَثْرَةٌ, below,)] and كَثَارَةٌ, (TA,) It was, or became, much, copious, abundant, many, numerous, great in number or quantity; it multiplied; it accumulated. (S, K, TA.) كَثُرُوا عَلَيْهِ فَغَلَبُوهُ [They multiplied against him and overcame him.] (TA in art. غرق). [كَثُرَ مِنْهُ كَذَا Such a thing proceeded from him, or was done by him, much, or often.] See also 4.

A2: كَاثَرُوهُمْ فَكَثَرُوهُمْ: see 3.2 كَثَّرَ see 4.3 كَاثَرُوهُمْ فَكَثَرُوهُمْ, (S, K,) inf. n. of the former, مُكَاثَرَةٌ, (S,) [and aor. of the latter, accord. to analogy, كَثُرَ,] They contended with them for superiority in number, and overcame them therein, (S, K, TA,) or surpassed, or exceeded, them in number. (TA.) A2: See also 10.4 اكثرهُ He made it much, abundant, many, or numerous, he multiplied it; as also ↓ كثّرهُ, (Msb, K, TA,) inf. n. تَكْثِيرٌ. (K.) b2: أَكْثَرْتُ مِنَ الشَّىْءِ and مِنْهُ ↓ استكثرتُ signify the same; (S, Msb;) i. e., أَكْثَرْتُ فِعْلَهُ [I did the thing much; lit., I made the doing of it much]: or أَكْثَرْتُ مِنَ الأَكْلِ وَنَحْوِهِ [I ate, and the like, much] presents an instance of pleonasm, [being for أَكْثَرْتُ الأَكْلَ وَنَحْوَهُ,] accord. to the opinion of the Koofees: or it is an instance of explication [of the vague signification of the verb], accord. to the opinion of the Basrees; the objective complement being suppressed, and the complete phrase being أَكْثَرْتُ الفِعْلَ مِنَ الأَكْلِ: and so in the like cases. (Msb.) [You say also أَكْثَرَ فِى الكَلَامِ He spoke, or talked, much; was profuse, or immoderate, in speech, or talk. and in like manner, فِى الأَمْرِ ↓ كَثُرَ He did, acted, or occupied himself, much in the affair.] b3: اكثر [as an intrans. v.] signifies أَتَى بِكَثِيرٍ [He brought, or he did, or he said, much]. (K.) b4: Also, [He became rich; he abounded in property;] his property became much, or abundant. (S, Msb, K.) A2: اكثر It (a palm-tree) produced, or put forth, its طَلْع [or spadix], (S, K,) i. e., its كَثَر, whence the verb. (TA.) A3: [مَا أَكْثَرَ مَالَهُ How abundant is his wealth! or how numerous are his cattle!]5 تكثّر [He endeavoured to acquire much, or abundance, of a thing]. You say تكثّر مِنَ العِلْمِ لِيَحْفَظَ [He endeavoured to acquire much knowledge, in order that he might preserve it in his memory]. And تَكثّر مِنْهُ لِيَفْهَمَ [He endeavoured to acquire much thereof in order that he might understand]. (A.) See also 10. b2: He made a vain, or false, boast of abundance, or riches; or a boast of more than he possessed; and invested himself with that which did not belong to him. (TA, voce تَشَبَّعَ, which signifies the same.) You say تكثّر بِمَا لَيْسَ عِنْدَهُ He made a boast of abundance, or riches, which he did not possess; syn. تَشَبَّعَ. (Msb, art. شبع.) And فُلَانٌ يَتَكَثَّرُ بِمَالِ غَيْرِهِ [Such a one makes a vain or false show of abundance or riches with the wealth or property of another]. (S.) 6 تَكَاْثَرَ i. q. 3 [but relating to more than two]. (S.) [You say تَكَاتَرُوا They contended, one with another, for superiority in number.] التَّكَاثُرُ in the Kur, ci. 1, signifies The contending together for superiority in [the amount or number of] property and children and men. (Jel.) A2: تَكَاثَرَتْ أَمْوَالُهُ [His riches multiplied by degrees]. (A.) b2: تكاثر عَلَيْهِ النَّاسُ فَقَهَرُوهُ [The people multiplied by degrees against him, and overcame him, or subdued him]. (TA.) 10 استكثر مِنَ الشَّىْءِ He desired, or wished for, much of the thing. (K.) You say استكثر مِنَ المَالِ [He desired, or wished for, much of the property]. (A.) b2: استكثرهُ المَآءِ, and المَآءَ ↓ كاثرهُ, He desired of him for himself much of the water that he might drink of it: (K:) and so if the water were little. (TA.) b3: استكثر مِنَ الشّىُءِ also signifies i. q. أَكْثَرَ مِنْهُ, q. v. (S, Msb.) b4: Also استكثرهُ He reckoned it much, abundant, or many. (Msb.) You say هُوَ يَسْتَكْثِرُ الفَلِيلَ [He reckons little, or few, much, abundant, or many]. (A.) Q. Q. 2 تَكَوْثَرَ It (dust) was, or became, much, or abundant. (S.) See كُوْثَرٌ.

كَثْرٌ: see كَثِيرٌ.

A2: See also كَثَرٌ.

كُثْرٌ: see كَثْرَةٌ.

A2: The greater, or greatest, or main, part, of a thing; the most thereof. (K.) كِثْرٌ: see كَثْرَةٌ.

كَثَرٌ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ كَثْرٌ (Msb, K) The heart, or pith, (syn. جُمَّارٌ, S, Msb, K, and شَحْمٌ, and جَذَبٌ, TA,) of a palm-tree: (S, Msb, K:) of the dial. of the Ansár: (TA:) or its spadix; syn. طَلْعٌ. (S, Msb, K.) كَثْرَةٌ, (S, A, K,) and ↓ كِثْرَةٌ, (K,) or the latter should not be used, for it is a bad dial. form, (S,) or it is correct when coupled with قِلَّةٌ, for the sake of assimilation, (TA,) and ↓ كُثْرَةٌ, though the first is the best known, (Ibn-'Allán, in his Sharh el-Iktiráh,) or the last is not allowable, (TA,) and ↓ كُثْرٌ, (S, A, K,) and ↓ كِثْرٌ, (S,) Muchness; much, as a subst.; copiousness; abundance; a large quantity; numerousness; multiplicity; multitudinousness; a multitude; a plurality; a large number; numbers; and frequency: contr. of قِلَّةٌ. (S, A, K.) [See also كَثُرَ.] You say ↓ مَا لَهُ قُلٌّ وَلَا كُثْرٌ He has not little nor much of property. (S.) and ↓ الحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ عَلَى القُلٌّ وَالكُثْرِ, (S, A,) and ↓ عَلَى القِلِّ وَالكِثْرِ, (S,) Praise be to God for little and much. (S, * A.) [↓ كُثْرٌ is explained in the S by كَثِيرٌ, and so in one place in the TA; but it is a subst., or an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates.] b2: كَثْرَةٌ is also used to signify Richness, or wealthiness; syn. سَعَةٌ. (Mgh.) كُثْرَةٌ: see كَثْرَةُ.

كِثْرَةٌ: see كَثْرَةُ.

كُثَارٌ: see كَثِيرٌ.

A2: Also, and ↓ كِثَارٌ, Companies, or troops, or the like, (K, TA,) of men or animals only. (TA.) You say فِى الدَّارِ كُثَارٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ, and كِثَارٌ, In the house are companies of men. (TA.) كِثَارٌ: see كُثَارٌ.

كَثِيرٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ كُثَارٌ (S, K) and ↓ كَاثِرٌ and ↓ كَثْرٌ and ↓ كَيْثَرٌ and ↓ كُوْثَرٌ (K) Much; copious; abundant; many; numerous; multitudinous. (S, A, Msb, K.) You say خَيْرٌ كَثِيرٌ, and ↓ كَيْثَرٌ, Much, or abundant, good. (A.) And قَوْمٌ كَثِيرٌ A numerous party, or people: and هُمْ كَثِيرُونَ They are many. (S.) And رِجَالٌ كَثِيرٌ, and كَثِيرَةٌ, Many men: and نِسَآءٌ كَثِيرٌ, and كَثِيرَةٌ, Many women. (Yoo, ISh, Msb.) And ↓ عَدَدٌ كَاثِرٌ, (S, Msb,) and, as some say, ↓ كَوْثَرٌ, (Msb,) and كَثِيرٌ, (K in art. بول, &c.) A large number. (S, Msb.) And ↓ غُبَارٌ كُوْثَرٌ Much dust: (S:) or much confused dust (K, TA) rising and diffusing itself: of the dial. of Hudheyl. (TA.) b2: [A large quantity, or number, مِنْ مَالٍ وَغَيْرِهِ of property, or cattle, &c.] b3: كَثِيرًا, as an adv., Much; often. (The lexicons passim.) b4: رَجُلٌ كثيرٌ [in the TA كثر: probably the right reading is ↓ كَيْثَرٌ, q. v.:] A man whose ancestors are many, and whose high deeds are various. (L.) b5: See also مُطَّرِدٌ.

كَثِيرَةٌ, with ة, [as a subst., signifying Much,] is used only in negative phrases; like [its contr.]

قَلِيلَةٌ, q. v. (Az, in TA, art. قل.) كَاثِرٌ: see كَثِيرٌ, in two places.

كُوْثَرٌ: see كَثِيرٌ, in three places.

A2: A lord, or master, (S, K,) abounding in good: (S:) a man possessing good, or much good, and who gives much or often; as also ↓ كَيْثَرٌ. (K, TA.) A3: A river. (Kr, K.) b2: And الكَوْثَرُ A certain river in paradise, (S, Msb, K,) from which flow all the [other] rivers thereof, (K,) pertaining specially to the Prophet, described as being whiter than milk and sweeter than honey and as having its margin composed of pavilions of hollowed pearls. (TA.) كَيْثَرٌ: see كَثِيرٌ, in two places: and كُوْثَرٌ.

أَكْثَرُ More, and most, in quantity, and in number. (The lexicons passim.) أَكْثَزِىٌّ Having relation to the greater number of things or cases.]

مُكْثِرٌ A man possessing wealth: (K:) or possessing much wealth. (A, TA.) مَكْثَرَةٌ A cause of rendering abundant, or multiplying; syn. مَثْرَاةٌ, q. v. (S, K in art. ثرو.) مِكْثَارٌ (A, K, TA) and ↓ مِكْثِيرٌ, (K, TA,) applied to a man, and to a woman, (A, TA,) Loquacious; talkative; a great talker; (K, TA;) a great babbler. (A.) مَكْثُورٌ Overcome in number: (S, * A:) one against whom people have multiplied by degrees (ثَكَاثَرُوا عَلَيْهِ) so that they have overcome or subdued him. (TA.) b2: مَكْثُورٌ عَلَيْهِ [A place thronged]. b3: فُلَانٌ مَكْثُورٌ عَلَيْهِ Such a one has spent what he had, and claims upon him have become numerous: (S:) or such a one has many seekers of his beneficence. (A.) See also مَشْفُوفٌ.

مِكْثِيرٌ: see مِكْثَارٌ.

كنز

1 كَنَزَ المَالَ, aor. ـِ (T, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.,) and, accord. to MF, كَنُزَ also, but the former is that which commonly obtains, (TA,) inf. n. كَنْزٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) He buried the property, or treasure, (S, K, TA,) in the earth: (TA:) he collected the property together, (Mgh, Msb,) and treasured it, hoarded it, laid it up, reposited it, stowed it, or stored it, in secret: (Msb:) and المَالَ ↓ اكتنز signifies the same as كَنَزَهُ. (TA.) b2: كَنَزَ الشَّىْءَ, (K,) aor. ـِ inf. n. كَنْزٌ, (TA,) He pressed the thing, meaning anything, (K,) with his hand or foot, (TA,) in a receptacle, or in the earth. (K.) b3: كَنَزَالتَّمْرَ, (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. ـِ (K,) inf. n. كَنْزٌ, (Msb, TA,) and, accord. to Az, كَنَازٌ and كِنَازٌ, [but see the former of these two words below,] (Msb,) He stowed, or packed, the dates, (TA,) فِى الوِعَآءِ in the receptacle, (A, Msb,) or فِى الجِلَالِ in the large receptacles of palm-leaves, [pl. of جُلَّة,] by throwing [the contents of] a bag (جِرَاب) into the bottom of the جُلَّة and pressing them with the feet until they became compacted, or commixed in a mass, and then bag after bag until the جلّة was pressed full, when it was sewed up with palm-leaf cord. (TA.) b4: كَنَزَ البُرَّ فِى الجِرَابِ [He stored up, or packed, the wheat in the bag]. (TA.) [See an ex. of the pass. part. n. voce دَرٌّ.] b5: كَنَزَ الجِرَابَ He filled the bag very full. (A.) And كَنَزَ السِّقَآءَ He filled the skin of milk or water. (TA.) and شَدَّ كَنْزَ القِرْبَةِ He filled the water-skin. (TA.) b6: كَنَزَ الرٌّمْحَ, (Sgh, TA,) inf. n. كَنْزٌ, (Sgh, K,) He stuck the spear into the ground. (Sgh, K, * TA.) 8 اكتنز It (a thing, S, Mgh, Msb,) became collected together, or compacted; and full. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.) b2: اكتنز التَّمْرُ [The dates became closely packed, or pressed together so as to be compact or commixed in a mass: see 1]. (TA; and K in art. وجأ; &c.) The like is also said of wheat. (TA.) b3: اكتنز اللَّحْمُ The flesh became compact, or hard. (From an explanation of the part. n. in the A; &c.) A2: اكتنز الجِرَابُ The bag became very full. (A.) And اكتنز السِّقَآءُ The skin of milk or water became full. (TA.) A3: اكتنز المَالَ: see 1.

كَنْزٌ Treasure; property buried (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) in the earth: (TA:) an inf. n. used as a subst.: pl. كُنُوزٌ. (Mgh, Msb.) b2: Hence, (TA,) it is applied in a trad. to (tropical:) Any property whereof the portion that should be given in alms is not given. (S, TA.) b3: Property that is preserved in a receptacle. (TA.) b4: Anything abundant, collected together, that is desired with emulation. (Sh, TA.) b5: Gold: and silver. (K.) It is said in a trad., أُعْطِيتُ الكَنْزَيْنِ مِنَ الأَحْمَرِ وَالأَبْيَضِ I have been given gold and silver. (TA.) b6: (tropical:) [A treasure of knowledge or science]. Yousay, مَعَهُ كَنْزٌ مِنْ كُنُوزِ العِلْمِ (tropical:) [With him is a treasure of the treasures of knowledge or science]. (A, TA.) In the Kur, xviii. 81, it is said to be used in a similar manner, as signifying not gold nor silver, but (tropical:) Science and books. (TA.) and it is said in like manner in a trad., أَلَا أُعَلِّمُكَ كَنْزًا مِنْ كُنُوزِ الجَنَّةِ لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللّٰهِ (tropical:) [Ho! I will teach thee a treasure of the treasures of paradise: There is no power nor strength but in God]: meaning, that a reward is stored up [in paradise] for him who says this, and who describes himself thereby, like as a treasure is stored up. (TA.) b7: Aboo-'Alee El-Kálee says, that it is used in a verse of 'Alkamah, which he does not quote, as signifying (tropical:) Fat; as a subst.; and adds, that it is the only instance known to him of its being thus used. (TA.) A2: Also, That in which property is preserved, or guarded: (K, * TA:) and ↓ مَكْنِزٌ [or rather both] that in which property is buried, treasured, hoarded, laid up, reposited, or stored, in secret: pl. of the latter, مَكَانِزُ. (A, TA.) كَنِزٌ: see مُكْتَنِزٌ.

كَنَازٌ and ↓ كِنَازٌ: see كَنَزَ التَّمْرَ. [Accord. to Az, they are inf. ns.; but some seem to regard them as simple substs.] You say, هٰذَا زَمَنُ الكَنَازِ, (S, Msb, K. *) and ↓ الكِنَازِ, (K,) This is the time of packing the dates. (K, * TA.) And El-Umawee says, أَتَيْتُهُمْ عِنْدَ الكَنَازِ, and ↓ الكِنَازِ, I came to them when they were packing the dates. (TA.) ISk says, that it has been heard only with fet-h; (S, Msb;) but some say, that it is like جَدَادٌ and جِدَادٌ, and صَرَامٌ and صِرَامٌ. (S.) b2: Also, sometimes, [The storing, or packing,] of wheat. (TA.) كِنَازٌ: see كَنَازٌ: A2: and see also مُكْتَنِزٌ, throughout.

كَنِيزٌ Dates packed in [the receptacles called]

قَوَاصِر [pl. of قَوْصَرَّةٌ] (K, TA) and جِلَال [pl. of جُلَّةٌ]. (TA,) for winter; (K, TA;) as also ↓ مَكْنُوزٌ. (TA.) See كَنَزَ التَّمْرَ. b2: See also مُكْتَنِزٌ.

كَنَّازٌ One who takes extraordinary pains in treasuring, or hoarding, gold and silver. (TA.) مَكْنِزٌ: see كَنْزٌ.

مَكْنُوزٌ: see كَنِيزٌ: b2: and مُكْتَنِزٌ.

مُكْتَنِزُ اللَّحْمِ, and ↓ كَنِيزُهُ, (A, TA,) and ↓ كَنِزَهُ, and ↓ مَكْنُوزُهُ, (TA,) Compact, or hard, in flesh: (A:) and [in like manner] ↓ كِنَازٌ compact and strong in flesh. (TA.) You say, نَاقَةٌ كِنَازٌ, (S, K,) or كِنَازُ اللَّحْمِ, (A,) and جَارِيَةٌِ كِنَازٌ, (K,) and هَنٌ كِنَازٌ, (TA,) A she-camel, (S, A, K,) and a girl, (K,) and a woman's pudendum, (TA,) compact, (مُكْتَنِزَة, S, or كَنِيزَة, or, as in the K, abundant, كَثِيرَة, TA,) in flesh, (S, K,) and hard, or firm: (K:) pl. كُنْزٌ and كِنَازٌ; the latter being like the sing.; (K;) but the two vowels [namely the two kesrehs] and the two alifs are regarded as different; for the word is not, as some assert, of the same class as جُنُبٌ, since it has a dual form, namely كِنَازَانِ. (TA.) b2: كِتَابٌ مُكْتَنِزٌ بِالفَوَائِدِ (tropical:) [A book, or writing, stored with useful things]. (A, TA.)

كلف

1 كَلِفَ بِهِ He became attached, addicted, given, or devoted, to it; or he attached, addicted, gave, or devoted, himself to it; (S, Msb, K, TA;) he loved it: (Msb, TA:) [he was fond of it:] he loved him, [or it,] vehemently. (TA.) b2: كَلَفٌ, inf. n. of كَلِفَ: [violent or intense love:] see حُبٌّ; and see a verse cited in the first paragraph of that art. 2 كَلَّفَ نَفْسَهُ شَيْئًا He tasked himself with a thing, as also ↓ تَكَلَّفَ شَيئًا. b2: كَلَّفَهُ أَمْرًا He tasked him to do a thing; imposed upon him the task of doing a thing. b3: So تَكْلِيفٌ The imposition of a task or duty. b4: A task; compulsory work; a duty imposed. b5: كَلَّفَهُ الأَمْرَ He imposed upon him the thing, or affair; syn. حَمَّلَهُ إِيَّاهُ. (Msb.) b6: كَلَّفَ نَفْسَهُ He put himself to trouble or inconvenience; like

↓ تَكَلَّفَ alone. b7: كَلَّفَهُ كَذَا He imposed upon him the task of doing, or procuring, or bringing, such a thing. b8: كَلَّفَهُ أَمْرًا He imposed upon him a thing, or an affair, in spite of difficulty, trouble, or inconvenience: (Msb:) he ordered him to do a thing that was difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient, to him: (S, K:) he made, required, or constrained, him to do a thing; exacted of him the doing a thing; meaning, a thing that was difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient to him: (Kull, 123; and the Lexicons, passim.) See جَتَّمَهُ. b9: تَكْلِيفٌ An imposition; a requisition: con straint, &c.5 تَكَلَّفَ أَمْرًا He [undertook a thing, or an affair, as imposed upon him: or] took, or imposed, upon himself, or undertook, a thing, or an affair, [as a task, or] in spite of difficulty, trouble, or inconvenience; (Msb;) syn. تَجَتَّمَهُ: (S, K:) he constrained, or tasked, or exerted, himself, or took pains, or made an effort, to do a thing; meaning, a thing that was difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient, to him: or he affected, as a self-imposed task, the doing of a thing. (The Lexicons, passim: see تغزّل: and see كَلَّفَهُ أَمْرًا.) b2: تكلّف صِفَةً He affected, or endeavoured to acquire, a quality. So in the explanations of verbs of the measure تَفَعَّلَ; as نَحَلَّمَ. (Sharh El-'Izzee, by Saad-ed-Keen.) b3: Also, He affected, or pretended to have, a quality, not having it. So in the explanations of verbs of the measure تَفَاعَلَ, as تَجَاهَلَ: (idem:) [and sometimes in verbs of the measure تَفَعَّلَ also, as تَكَسَّرَ &c.]. And تَكَلَّفَ alone, He exercised self-constraint, or put himself to trouble or inconvenience. b4: تَكَلَّفَ He affected what was not natural to him. b5: تَكَلَّفَ He used forced efforts to do a thing, and to appear to have a quality. He affected, or endeavoured to do or acquire, &c.; he constrained himself to do, &c.; he applied himself, as to a task, to do a thing.

تكلّف الشَّجَاعَةَ He made himself, or constrained himself to be, courageous; affected, or endeavoured to acquire, or characterize himself by, courage. b6: تكلّف الشَّجَاعَةَ also, He acted, or behaved, with forced courage; endeavoured to be courageous. b7: تكلّف فِى عَرَبِيَّتِهِ He used a forced, or affected, manner in his Arabic speech. b8: تَكَلُّفٌ A straining of a point in lexicology. b9: تَعَقَّلَ signifies He affected or endeavoured to acquire, intelligence; explained by تكلّف العَقْلَ: and تَعَاقَلَ, he pretended to be intelligent, not being really so. (S, art. عقل.) تَكَلُّفٌ in a verb of the measure تَفَعَّلَ is as above explained, signifying a desire for the existence of an attribute in one's self: in a verb of the measure تَفَاعَلَ it is different, and means the pretending to be or to do something which in reality one is not or does not; as in the instance of تَجَاهَلَ, he pretended to be ignorant, not being so in reality. (Sharh El-'Izzee, by Saad-ed-Deen.) تَكَلَّفَ كَذَا He did so purposely. b10: تَكَلَّفَ He tasked himself. b11: تَكَلَّفَ القَىْءَ He vomited intentionally. (TA, art. قىء.) كَلَفٌ [A discolouration of the face, by] a thing that comes upon the face resembling sesame; [by freckles, accord. to present usage:] and a dingy redness that comes upon the face. (S, K.) كُلْفَةٌ A difficulty, or difficult affair, or a duty, or an obligation, that one imposes upon himself; (S, K;) or a thing imposed upon one as difficult, troublesome, or inconvenient. (Msb.) See حَبٌّ. b2: [Constraint,] trouble, pain, or inconvenience. (MA.)

خلج

1 خَلَجَ, (S, A, L, Msb, K,) aor. ـِ (S, K,) or ـُ (Msb,) inf. n. خَلْجٌ; and ↓ اختلج; (S, L, Msb, TA;) and ↓ تخلّج; (L, TA;) He drew, dragged, pulled, strained, stretched, extended, lengthened, or protracted, (S, L, K,) a thing: (S, * L, TA:) and he pulled out or up, displaced, removed, or took away, (S, A, Msb, K,) a thing, (S, * A, Msb, TA,) and a person. (A.) Thus in the saying, أَخَذَ بِيَدِهِ فَخَلَجَهُ بَيْنِ صَحْبِهِ [He took his hand, and pulled him out from amid his companions]: and خَلَجَ رُمْحَهُ مِنَ المَطْعُونِ [He pulled out his spear from the person pierced]: and رُمْحًا مَرْكُوزًا ↓ اختلج [He pulled out a spear stuck in the ground]. (A, TA.) [See also an ex. in a verse cited voce مَطْرَبٌ.] El-'Ajjáj says, فَإِنْ يَكُنْ هٰذَا الزَّمَانُ خَلَجَا فَقَدْ لَبِسْنَا عَيْشَهُ المُخَرْفَجَا

meaning (assumed tropical:) And if this time has taken away, and exchanged for another, a state [in which we were, we have long enjoyed its plentiful life]. (S.) b2: [Hence,] خُلِجَ, said of a stallion-camel, He was taken away from the females that had passed seven or eight months since the period when they last brought forth, before he had become too languid to cover any longer. (Lth, A, L.) And خَلَجَ, aor. ـِ (assumed tropical:) He weaned his offspring, or the offspring of his she-camel: (K:) (tropical:) he separated a young camel from the mother. (A.) And خَلَجَتْ وَلَدَهَا (tropical:) She (a mother) weaned her offspring: (M, A:) so accord. to Lh, who does not particularize any kind [of animal]. (M.) And خَلَجَ نَاقَةً (assumed tropical:) He weaned the offspring of a she-camel. (S.) and مِنْ بَيْنِهِمْ ↓ اُخْتُلِجَ (tropical:) [He was taken away from among them]: said of the dead. (A, TA.) b3: خَلَجَنِى كَذَا, (S, K, *) aor. ـِ (K,) (assumed tropical:) Such a thing occupied me; busied me; or diverted me, by employing my attention, from other things. (S, K, * TA.) You say, خَلَجَتْهُ أُمُورُ الدُّنْيَا (assumed tropical:) [The affairs of the world occupied him, &c.]. (S, TA.) and ↓ خَلَجَتْهُ الخَوَالِجُ (assumed tropical:) Busying [or distracting] affairs busied [or distracted] him. (Lth.) And a poet says, وَ أَبِيتُ تَخْلِجُنِى الهُمُومُ كَأَنَّنِى

دَلْوُ السُّقَاةِ تُمَدُّ بِالأَشْطَانِ [And I pass the night,] anxieties busying me [as though I were the bucket of the waterers, drawn from the well by the ropes]. (IAar.) b4: تَخْلِجُ السَّيْرَ, said of a fleet she-camel, (L, K,) (assumed tropical:) She goes, journeys, or travels, quickly. (L.) And خَلَجَ فِى مِشْيَتِهِ: see 5. b5: خَلَجَ, aor. ـِ also signifies (assumed tropical:) He put (a thing, TA) in motion, or into a state of commotion. (A, K, TA.) You say, خَلَجَ حَاجِبَيْهِ, and عَيْنَيْهِ, (tropical:) He put in motion, or into a state of commotion, his eyebrows, and his eyes. (A.) b6: And خَلَجَ, aor. ـِ (L, K) and خَلُجَ, inf. n. خَلْجٌ, (L, TA,) (assumed tropical:) He made a sign [by a motion] (L, K, TA) بِعَيْنِهِ with his eye, and بِحَاجِبَيْهِ with his eyebrows. (L, TA.) And خَلَجَهُ بِحَاجِبِهِ, aor. and inf. n. as above, (assumed tropical:) He made a sign to him with his eyebrow. (L.) And خَلَجَهُ بِعَيْنِهِ (assumed tropical:) He made a sign to him with his eye; winked to him. (S, L.) And خَلَجَتْنِى بِعَيْنِهَا (tropical:) She made a sign to me with her eye, or winked to me, to indicate a time or place of appointment, or something that she desired. (A, TA.) b7: See also 8, in two places.3 خالجهُ, (A, Msb, TA,) inf. n. مُخَالَجَةٌ, (Mgh,) He contended with him, (A, Mgh, * Msb, TA,) [as though drawing, or pulling, him, (see 6,)] namely, a man. (TA.) You say, خالجهُ الشَّىْءَ He contended with him for the thing. (A.) And خَالَجَنِى القِرَآءَةَ (assumed tropical:) He vied with me in reciting the words of prayer, (Mgh, * TA,) uttering aloud what I uttered aloud, so that he took from my tongue what I was reciting, and I did not [or could not] continue to do so. (TA, from a trad.) And خالج قَلْبِى أَمْرٌ (tropical:) A thing, or an affair, troubled my heart with contending thoughts. (K, TA.) And مَا يُخَالِجُنِى فِى ذٰلِكَ الأَمْرِ شَكٌّ (tropical:) [Doubt does not contend with me respecting that affair], meaning I doubt not respecting that affair. (Sh, TA.) 4 اخلج حَاجِبَيْهِ عَنْ عَيْنَيْهِ (assumed tropical:) [He drew up his eyebrows from his eyes]. (Lth.) A2: اخلج is also quasi-pass. of خَلَجَ, though this is extr. with respect to analogy, like ابشر [q. v.] &c.; (TA;) signifying It was, or became, drawn, dragged, pulled, &c. (L, TA.) 5 تخلّج: see 1, first sentence. b2: [Hence,] تخلّج فِى مِشْيَتِهِ He (a paralytic, S, K, or an insane, or a possessed, man, A) walked in a loose manner, as though disjointed, and inclined from side to side, (S, A, K, TA,) as one dragging a thing: (A, TA:) it is similar to تخلّع: (TA:) and signifies also he (an insane, or a possessed, man) inclined from side to side in his gait, (Mgh, * TA,) as though he were drawing along, now to the right and now to the left; and so فى ↓ خَلَجَ مشيته, aor. ـِ inf. n. خَلَجَانٌ. (TA.) b3: See also 8, in two places. b4: And see 6.

A2: [It branched off, like a خَلِيج, from a large river: occurring in this sense in art. دجل of the T and TA; where دُجَيْل is described as نَهْرٌ صَغِيرٌ يَتَخَلَّجُ مِنْ دِجْلَةَ.]6 تَخَالَجَتْهُ الهُمُومُ (tropical:) Anxieties contended with him, one on one side and another on another side, as though each were drawing him to it. (A, L.) And تخالج فِى صَدْرِى شَىْءٌ (S, A, K) and ↓ اختلج (TA) (tropical:) A thing was, or became, unsettled in my bosom, or mind; (TA;) meaning I was in doubt [respecting a thing]; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ تخلّج and تحلّج, (Lth, * As, TA in art. حلج,) or these two mean nearly the same. (Sh, TA in that art; in which see 5, in three places.) [See also 8.]8 اختلج, as a trans. v.: see 1, in three places.

A2: Also (tropical:) It (a thing) was, or became, in a state of commotion, or agitation; it quivered, quaked, or throbbed; (Sh, TA;) and so ↓ تخلّج (Sh, K) [and ↓ خَلَجَ, as will be seen from what follows]. You say اختلج حَاجِبَاهُ (assumed tropical:) His eyebrows quivered, or were in a state of commotion. (Lth.) and اختلجت عَيْنُهُ; (S, K;) and ↓ تخلّجت; (TA;) and ↓ خَلَجَتْ, aor. ـِ and خَلُجَ, inf. n. خُلُوجٌ (S, K) and خَلَجَانٌ; (Sh;) (assumed tropical:) His eye quivered, throbbed, or was in a state of commotion; (Sh, L;) i. q. طَارَتْ, (S, K,) i. e., throbbed. (PS, TK.) and اختلج العُضْوُ (assumed tropical:) The member (i. e. any member, L) quivered, &c. (Mgh, L, Msb.) b2: (assumed tropical:) He trembled, quivered, or quaked. (TA.) And اختلج بِوَجْهِهِ (assumed tropical:) He moved about his lips and his chin, mocking and imitating a person talking. (TA, from a trad.) b3: اختلج فِى صَدْرِى هَمٌّ (tropical:) [Anxious thought fluttered in my bosom]. (TA.) See also 6.

خِلْجٌ: see خَلُوجٌ.

خُلُجٌ (assumed tropical:) Persons trembling in the bodies. (K.) b2: (assumed tropical:) Persons tired, or fatigued. (IAar.) b3: (assumed tropical:) A people whose lineage, or origin, is doubted, (T, K,) so that different persons dispute, one with another, respecting it. (T.) See also مُخْتَلَجٌ.

خَلَنْجٌ: see art. خلنج.

خَلُوجٌ Clouds (سَحَاب) separated, or scattered, (K, TA,) as though drawn away from the mass; of the dial. of Hudheyl: (TA:) or clouds, (سحاب, K,) and a cloud, (سَحَابَة, TA,) abounding with water, (K, TA,) and lightening vehemently. (TA.) b2: And hence, (assumed tropical:) A she-camel abounding with milk, and yearning towards her young one. (T, TA.) b3: Also (assumed tropical:) A she-camel, (S, K,) or other female, (TA,) whose young one has been taken from her (S, K) by slaughter or death, and that yearns towards it. (TA,) and whose milk in consequence has become little in quantity. (S, K.) Accord. to some, (L,) (assumed tropical:) A she-camel that goes, journeys, or travels, quickly, by reason of her [natural, not forced,] fleetness. (L, K. *) Pl. ↓ خِلْجٌ [or, rather, this is a quasi-pl. n., like as لِبْنٌ is of لَبُونٌ,] and خِلَاجٌ. (L.) خَلِيجٌ A canal, or cut, from a large river; syn. شَرْمٌ مِنْ بَحْرٍ: (S, A, K:) what is cut off from the main mass of water; so called because it is drawn from it: (ISd, TA:) a river cut off from a larger river, extending to a place where use is made of it: a river on one side of a larger river: (TA:) and [simply] a river: (S, A, K:) and خَلِيجَا نَهْرٍ is said to signify the two sides of a river: (S:) or the two wings thereof: and some explain the sing. (خليج) as meaning a branch from a valley, conveying its water to another place: (TA:) pl. خُلْجَانٌ (A, TA) and خُلُجٌ. (TA.) خَالِجٌ [act. part. n. of 1]. b2: It is said in a trad. of 'Alee, respecting life (الحَيَاة), إِنَّ اللّٰهَ جَعَلَ المَوْتَ خَالِجًا لِأَشْطَانِهَا, meaning (assumed tropical:) Verily God has made death to be quick in seizing its cords; i. e. the cords of life. (L.) b3: [Hence,] الخَالِجُ is applied to (assumed tropical:) Death; because it draws away mankind. (TA.) جَالِجَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A busying, or distracting, affair: pl. خَوَالِجُ. Hence,] خَلَجَتْهُ الخَوَالِجُ: see 1.

مَخَلَّجٌ (assumed tropical:) Fat, so that his flesh quivers. (TA.) مُخْتَلَجٌ (tropical:) A man whose name has been transferred from the register of his own people to that of another people, to whom his lineage, or origin, is consequently ascribed, (A, TA,) and respecting whose lineage, or origin, people differ and dispute: (TA:) accord. to some, i. q. ↓ خُلُجٌ as meaning a people whose reputed origin is transferred so as to be ascribed to another people: and the former signifies also a man whose lineage, or origin, is disputed; as though he were drawn, and pulled away, from his people. (TA.) b2: (assumed tropical:) One whose flesh and strength are taken away. (TA.) b3: (assumed tropical:) A face (Lth, ISd, K) lean, (Lth, ISd,) having little flesh. (K.)

خمد

1 خَمَدَتِ النَّارُ, aor. ـُ (S, Msb, K;) and خَمِدَت, (A, K,) aor. ـَ (K;) inf. n. خُمُودٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and خَمْدٌ; (IKtt, K;) The fire subsided; its flaming; or blazing, ceasing; (S, A, Msb, K;) but its embers remaining unextinguished: (S, Msb, K:) when its embers have become extinguished, you say of it, هَمَدَت: (S:) or it died away, and became utterly extinguished. (Msb.) b2: [Hence,] خَمَدَتِ الحُمَّى, (S, Msb, K,) or خَمِدَت, (A,) (tropical:) The fever became allayed: (A, Msb:) or the vehemence of the fever became allayed. (S, K.) b3: And خَمَدَ (tropical:) He (a sick man, S) fainted, or swooned: (S, A, Msb, K:) or he died. (S, A, Msb.) 4 اخمد النَّارَ He allayed the flaming, or blazing, of the fire; leaving its embers unextinguished: (S, Msb, K:) or he extinguished the fire utterly. (Msb.) And اخمدتها الرِّيحُ The wind allayed its flaming, or blazing. (A.) A2: (tropical:) He was, or became, still, or motionless, and silent. (K, TA.) خَمُّودٌ A place in which fire is buried in order that its flaming, or blazing, may cease; its embers remaining unextinguished: (S, K:) [or in order that it may become utterly extinguished: see 1.]

خَامِدٌ (tropical:) Silent; from whom no voice is heard: and in like manner, ↓ مُخْمِدٌ signifies still, or motionless, and silent: still, or motionless; having disposed and submitted himself to an affair, or event. (L.) خَامِدُونَ in the Kur xxxvi. 28 means (assumed tropical:) Silent and dead: (Jel:) or silent; having died, and become like extinguished ashes. (Zj, Bd. *) مُخْمِدٌ: see the paragraph next preceding.

خصر

1 خَصرَ, (S, A,) aor. ـَ inf. n. خَصَرٌ, (TK,) It (a day) was, or became, intensely cold. (S, A.) He (a man) suffered pain from the cold in his extremities. (S.) And خَصِرَتْ يَدِى, (S, TA,) and أَنَامِلِى, (TA,) My arm, or hand, and my fingers' ends, were pained by the cold. (S, * TA.) 2 تَخْصِيرٌ [an inf. n. of which the verb, if it have one, is خُصِّرَ]: see مُخَصَّرٌ.3 خاصر المَرْأَةَ, (A,) inf. n. مُخَاصَرَةٌ, (TA,) He laid hold upon the woman's خَاصِرَة [or flank], (A,) or put his hand to her خَصْر [or waist], (TA,) in compressing her. (A, TA.) b2: and خاصرهُ He took his hand in walking, or walked with him hand in hand, (S, A, IAth, K,) so that the hand of each was by the waist (خَصْر) of the other: (IAth:) and, (so in the S, but in the K “ or,”) inf. n. as above, (S,) he took a different way from his (another's) until he met him in a place: (S, K:) مخاصرة as the inf. n. of the verb in this sense is syn. with مُخَازَمَةٌ: (S:) or خاصرهُ signifies he walked with him, and then parted from him, and so continued until he met him at a time, or place, at which they had not appointed to meet: (IAar:) or he walked by his side. (K.) 4 اخصر It (cold) pained a man's arms, or hands, and his fingers' ends. (A, * TA.) 5 تَخَصَّرَ see 8, in the first sentence: A2: and again, in the last two sentences.6 تخاصر: see 8. b2: تخاصروا They took one another by the hand in walking, or walked together hand in hand [so that the hand of each was by the waist (خَصْر) of another: see 3]. (S, K. *) 8 اختصر (A, Mgh, L, Msb, K) and ↓ تخصّر, (Mgh, Msb, K,) or ↓ تخاصر, (A, L,) He put his hand upon his خَصْر [or waist], (A, Mgh, L, Msb,) or upon his خَاصِرَة [or flank], (Mgh, K,) in prayer. (Mgh, L, Msb.) The doing this in prayer [except in the night, when tired, (see المُتَخَصِّرُونَ,)] is forbidden, or disapproved. (Mgh, TA.) A2: اختصر الطَّرِيقَ He went the nearest way. (S, A, Msb, K.) b2: And hence, (Msb, TA,) اختصر الكَلَامَ (tropical:) He abridged the language, or the discourse; syn. أَوْجَزَهُ: (S, A, K:) [and in like manner, الكِتَابَ the book, or writing:] or, accord. to some, the latter (اوجزهُ) signifies “ he expressed its correct meaning concisely, without regard to the original words; ” and the former, he curtailed its words, preserving the meaning: (MF:) or properly, he abridged the expressions, making the words fewer, but preserving the entire meaning: (Msb:) or he abridged the language by omitting superfluities, and choosing from it concise expressions which conveyed the meaning. (L.) [You say, اختصرهُ عَلَى الرُّبْعِ (assumed tropical:) He reduced it by abridgment to the fourth of its original bulk.] And اختصر السَّجْدَةَ (assumed tropical:) He recited the chapter in which a prostration should be performed, omitting the verse requiring prostration, in order that he might not prostrate himself: or he recited only the verse requiring a prostration, to prostrate himself in so doing: both which practices are forbidden. (T, * Mgh, * Msb, * K.) And the verb alone (assumed tropical:) He recited a verse, or two verses, of the last part of the chapter, in prayer; (K;) not the whole chapter. (TA.) b3: Also, the verb alone, He curtailed a thing of its superfluities, (K,) in a general sense. (TA.) b4: And اختصر فِى الجَزِّ, (JK, K, TA,) in some copies of the K فِى الحَزِّ, with ح, (TA,) or اختصر الجَزَّ, (A,) He did not extirpate in cutting; did not cut off entirely, or utterly: (A, K:) or he extirpated in cutting; cut off utterly. (JK.) A3: اختصر also signifies He took a مِخْصَرَة [in his hand]: (S, * K:) and بِهَا ↓ تخصّر he took it in his hand; namely, a مخصرة: (Har p. 122:) or the former, he leaned upon it in walking: (TA:) or he took a مخصرة or a staff in his hand, to lean upon it. (Mgh.) You say also, اختصر العَنَزَةَ [He took in his hand the عنزة: or he leaned upon the عنزة in walking]: it is a thing [i. e. a kind of staff, or short spear,] like the عُكَّازَة: and in like manner, ↓ تخصّر; as in the L &c.: (TA:) and اختصر بِالعَصَا He leaned upon the staff in walking. (A.) خَصْرٌ The middle, or waist, of a man or woman: (S, A, Msb, K;) i. e. the slender part above the hips or haunches: (Msb:) pl. خُصُورٌ. (A, K.) See also الخَاصِرَةُ, in two places. b2: (tropical:) The hollow part of the sole of the foot, which does not touch the ground: (A, K:) pl. as above. (K.) b3: (tropical:) The narrow part of a sandal, before the أُذُنَانِ [which are the two loops whereto is attached the strap that passes behind the wearer's heel]: (TA:) or خَصْرَانِ [the dual] signifies the narrow part of a sandal. (IAar, TA.) b4: (tropical:) The part which is between the base of the notch and the feathers of an arrow: (AHn, A, * K:) pl. as above. (K.) b5: (tropical:) A way between the upper and lower parts of a heap of sand; (K, TA:) or (tropical:) the lower part of a heap of sand; the thin part thereof; as also ↓ مُخَصَّرٌ: (A, TA:) pl. as above. (K.) b6: (assumed tropical:) The place of the بُيُوت [or tents] of the Arabs of the desert: (K:) or, as some say, of such بيوت, a clean place: (TA:) pl. as above. (K.) خَصَرٌ Cold (S, K) which a man feels in his extremities. (TA.) خَصِرٌ, applied to a day, Painfully cold. (A, TA.) b2: Cold, as an epithet, (S, K,) applied to water, (S,) and to anything. (TA.) b3: A man feeling cold [especially in his extremities: see 1]: to signify cold and hungry, the epithet خَرِصٌ is used. (A 'Obeyd.) b4: ثَغْرٌ خَصِرٌ [A mouth, or front teeth,] cold, or cool, in the place that is hissed. (A, TA. [See also مُخَصَّرٌ.]) خُصَيْرَى, (K, TA,) in some copies of the K خُصَيْرِىٌّ, (TA,) [but the former is shown to be the right reading by a verse cited in the TA,] The curtailment of the superfluities of a thing; like اِخْتِصَارٌ. (K, * TA.) الخَاصِرَةُ [The flank; i. e. each of the ilia;] i. q. الشَّاكِلَةُ; (Zj, in his “ Khalk el-Insán; ” S, K;) i. e. the طَفْطَفَة [or quivering flesh] of the side, that reaches to the extremities of the ribs: (Zj, ibid.:) and [so in the K, but more properly “ or,”] الخَاصِرَةُ, (K,) or الخَاصِرَاتَانِ (JK, TA) and ↓ الخَصْرَانِ, (TA,) what is between the حَرْقَفَة [or crest of the hip] and the lowest rib; (JK, K, TA;) i. e. the part from which retires each of the lowest ribs, and in advance of which projects each of the حَجَبَتَانِ: [explained by the words ما قلص عنه القُصَيْرَيَانِ وتقدّم من الحجبتين: but for من الحجبتين, I read مِنْهُ الحَجَبَتَانِ; referring, for corroboration, to explanations of this last word; and therefore I have rendered the passage as above: the meaning seems evidently to be the part between the lowest rib and the crest of the hip, on each side:] the thin skin which is above the خَصْر is called the طَفْطَفَة: so in the M, agreeably with the saying of Ibn-El-Ajdábee, that ↓ الخَصْرُ and الخَاصِرَةُ are syn.; i. e., in this sense: [this assertion, however, requires consideration; for all the explanations of الخاصرة are easily reconcileable:] pl. خَوَاصِرُ [which is also used in the sense of the sing. or dual]. (TA.) You say رَجُلٌ ضَخْمُ الخَواصِرِ [A man large in the flank or flanks]: and Lh mentions the phrase إِنَّهَا لَمُنْتَفِخَةُ الخَوَصِرِ [Verily she is inflated, or swollen, in the flank or flanks]; as though the term خاصرة were applicable to every portion [of the flank]. (TA.) b2: Also A pain in the خَاصِرَة [or flank]: or in the kidneys. (TA.) b3: And it is also said to signify A certain vein (عِرْق) in the kidney, which occasions pain to the person when it is in motion. (TA.) خِنْصِرٌ: see art خنصر.

أَخْصَرُ [Shorter: and shortest]. You say, هٰذَا

أَخْصَرُ مِنْ ذَاكَ This [road] is shorter than that. (A.) But this is irregular; أَخْصَرُ being formed from اُخْتُصِرَ, a verb of more than three letters. (I' Ak p. 237.) مِخْصَرَةٌ A thing like a whip: and anything that a man takes (يَخْتَصِرُ) with his hand, and holds, such as a staff and the like: (S:) a thing which a man takes in his hand, and upon which he leans, such as a staff and the like: (K, * TA:) a rod [or sceptre] which a king used to take in his hand, with which he made signs, or pointed, in holding a discourse, or addressing, (A, K, *) and accompanied what he said, (A,) and in like manner the خَطِيب in reciting a خُطْبَة: (K, * TA:) it was one of the insignia of kings: (TA:) a rod, or what is termed عَنَزَة, or the like, with which the خَطِيب makes signs, or points, in addressing the people: (Msb:) a thing which a man holds in his hand, such as any of the things termed عَصًا and مِقْرَعَةٌ and عَنَزَةٌ and عُكَّازَةٌ and قَضِيبٌ, or the like; and upon which he sometimes leans: (A 'Obeyd:) pl. مَخَاصِرُ. (S, TA.) مُخَصَّرٌ, applied to a man, (TA,) Slender (K, TA) in the waist: (TA:) lean, or lank in the belly: (K:) or, in the خَاصِرَة [or flank]: (TA:) and البَطْنِ ↓ مَخْصُورٌ is also applied to a man [as meaning lank in the belly]. (A, TA.) b2: كَشْحٌ مُخَصَّرٌ A thin [flank or rather waist: see a verse of Imra-el-Keys cited voce مُذَلَّلٌ]. (S, A, K.) b3: قَدَمٌ مُخَصَّرَةٌ (JK, A, TA) and ↓ مَخْصُورَةٌ (JK, TA) (tropical:) [A foot that touches the ground with its fore part and heel; the middle of the sole being hollow and narrow: this meaning, or a meaning similar to that of يَدٌ مُخَصَّرَةٌ explained below, seems to be indicated in the TA: the latter is the meaning accord. to the JK; but this [ think doubtful, on account of what here follows]. مُخَصَّرُ القَدَمَيْنِ means (tropical:) A man whose feet touch the ground with the fore part and the heel; the middle of the sole being hollow and narrow: (S, K:) and you say also ↓ مَخْصُورُ القَدَمَيْنِ. (A, TA.) b4: يَدٌ مُخَصَّرَةٌ, or ↓ مَخْصُورَةٌ, (as in different copies of the K,) or both, (TA,) (tropical:) An arm, or a hand, in the wrist of which is what is termed ↓ تَخْصِيرٌ, as though it were bound: or which has an encircling groove-like depression. (K, TA.) b5: نَعْلٌ مُخَصَّرَةٌ (tropical:) A sandal narrow in the middle. (S, * A, * K, TA.) b6: See also خَصْرٌ.

A2: ثَغْرٌ بَارِدُ المُخَصَّرِ [A mouth, or front teeth,] cold, or cool, in the place that is kissed. (TA. [See also خَصِرٌ.]) مَخْصُورٌ A man having a complaint of, or a pain in, his خَصْر [or waist], or his خَاصِرَة [or flank]. (TA.) b2: See also the next preceding paragraph, in four places.

مَخَاصِرُ pl. of مِخْصَرَةٌ. (S, TA.) A2: مَخَاصِرُ الطَّرِيقِ The nearest roads or ways; (K;) as also ↓ المُخْتَصَرَاتُ: (TA:) or مُخْتَصِرَاتُ الطُّرُقِ signifies The roads, or ways, that are near, notwithstanding their ruggedness, but not so easy as those that are longer. (L.) المُخْتَصَرَاتُ, or مُخْتَصِرَاتُ الطُّرُقِ: see the paragraph next preceding.

المُتَخَصِّرُونَ, (K,) or المُتَخَصِّرُونَ فِى الصَّلَاةِ, (Mgh,) Those who, in praying in the night, becoming tired thereby, put their hands upon their خَوَاصِر [or flanks]: of such it is said (in a trad., IAth, K) that light shall be [seen] on their faces (IAth, Mgh, K) on the day of resurrection: (IAth, K:) [in other cases, this action is forbidden, or disapproved: see 8:] or, in the instance mentioned above, it may mean those who shall rest upon their righteous works on the day of resurrection: (IAth, Mgh, TA:) this latter is apparently the right meaning: otherwise, two trads. contradict each other. (MF.)