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خ س ف

Overview

Computed

Occurrences: 8
Distinct forms: 6
First: يَخْسِفَ16:45:6
Last: وَخَسَفَ75:8:1

Meaning

Morphology · Lane's Lexicon · CC BY-SA 3.0

From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root خسف. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.

خَسَفَ خسف , aor. خَسِفَ , (JK, S, Msb, K,) inf. n. خَسْفٌ , (JK,) or خُسُوفٌ , (S, K,) or both; (Msb;) [and ↓ انخسف ;] It (a place) sank, (JK, Msb,) or went away, into the ground, or earth, (S, Msb, K,) with what was upon it. (JK.) You say, الأَرْضُ ↓ انخسف , [and خَسَفَت ,] The ground sank [into the earth] with what was upon it. (TA.) And بِهِ الأَرْضُ ↓ انخسفت , (JK,) or به الارض ↓ انخسف , and خُسِفَ به الارض , (TA,) and خَسَفَتْ , (Msb in art. سوخ ,) The ground sank with him, or it: (JK:) or the ground, or earth, [swallowed up him, or it; or] took and enclosed him, or it. (TA.) And البِيءْرُ ↓ انخسفت The well [sank and collapsed; or] went away into the earth with its casing of stones and wood. (Mgh.) And خَسَفَ فِى الأَرْضِ and خُسِفَ بِهِ [He, or it, sank into the ground, or earth, and became swallowed up, or enclosed, or concealed, therein]. (S.) It is said in the Kur [xxviii. 82], accord. to one reading, لَخُسِفَ بِنَا [We had been swallowed up by the earth]: (S:) accord. to another reading, (that of 'Abd-Allah, S, i. e. Ibn-Mes'ood, TA,) بنا ↓ لَا@نْخُسِفَ , (S, K,) in the pass. form; (K;) [meaning the same;] like as one says, اُنْطُلِقَ بنا . (S.) You say also, خَسَفَتْ عَيْنُ المَا=ءِ The spring of water sank, or went away, into the earth. (Msb, K. *) And العَيْنُ ↓ انخسفت The eye sank, or became depressed, in the head; syn. غَارَتْ ; (Msb in art. غور ;) [and so خَسَفَت , inf. n. خُسُوفٌ ; for] خُسُوفُ العَيْنِ signifies The eye's going away into the head: (S:) or ↓ انخسفت signifies its black, or part surrounded by the white, disappeared in the head: (Mgh:) or this last, (K,) as quasi-pass. of the trans. v. خَسَفَ , (TA,) (tropical:) it (the eye) became blind; as also ↓ أَخْسَفَت ; (K, TA;) and [in like manner] خَسَفَت (assumed tropical:) it (the eye) lost its light [or sight]. (Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence, app.,] خَسَفَ القَمَرُ , inf. n. خُسُوفٌ ; (S, Msb, K;) and خُسِفَ ; (TA;) (assumed tropical:) The moon [suffered eclipse, or became eclipsed, or] lost its light, or part of its light; (Msb;) i. q. كَسَفَ : (S, * Msb, * K:) and خَسَفَتِ الشَّمْسُ and كَسَفَت both signify the same [i. e. the sun suffered eclipse, &c.]: (Mgh:) or one says كَسَفَت of the sun, and خَسَفَ of the moon, (Th, S, Msb, K,) accord. to the more approved usage: (Th, S, Msb:) or, in the common conventional language, الكُسُوفُ is the partial loss of the light of the sun, and الخُسُوفُ is the total loss of the light thereof: (AHát, Msb:) or الخسوف is the partial loss of the light of the sun, and الكسوف is the total loss thereof, (K, TA,) accord. to AHát: (TA:) الخسوف often occurs in the trads., as said of the sun; though the term commonly known in the classical language is الكسوف [in this case]: and it is said in a trad., اـِنَّ الشَّمْسَ وَ القَمَرَ لَايَخْسِفَانِ لِمَوْتِ أَحَدٍ أَوْ لِحَيَاتِهِ [Verily the sun and the moon suffer not eclipse for the death of any one or for his life]; predominance being in this instance attributed to the moon, as being masc., over the sun, which is fem. (IAth.) ― -b3- Also, inf. n. خَسْفٌ , (assumed tropical:) It (a thing) became defective or deficient; suffered loss or diminution. (K.) ― -b4- (tropical:) It (the body) became lean, or emaciated. (TA.) And خَسَفَتْ , said of camels and of sheep or goats, (tropical:) They became lean, or emaciated. (TA. [This meaning is there indicated, but not clearly expressed. See خَسْفَةٌ . Accord. to the KL, the inf. n. خَسْفٌ signifies The being vile, abject, or contemptible: and also the being lean, or emaciated: and hence Golius, on that authority, has rendered the verb as meaning vilis et macer fuit.]) ― -b5- Also (assumed tropical:) It (the colour, or complexion, of a person) became altered, or altered for the worse. (TA.) ― -b6- And (tropical:) It (a thing, K, as, for instance, a roof, TA) became pierced with a hole, or rent; (K, TA;) as also ↓ انخسف . (TA.) ― -b7- And, خَسَفَت , said of a she-camel, (tropical:) She, after yielding abundant milk, soon stopped [its flow] in winter. (K, TA.) ― -b8- And, said of a well, It was, or became, such as is termed خَسِيفٌ [q. v.]. (TA.) ― -b9- And خَسَفَ , said of a man, (tropical:) He recovered from a disease. (IDrd, K, TA.) -A2- خَسَفَ , (JK, Msb, TA,) aor. خَسِفَ , (Kur xvi. 47, &c,) inf. n. خَسْفٌ , He (God) made a place, (JK, Msb,) or the ground, (TA,) to sink, (JK, Msb, TA,) or go away, into the earth, (Msb,) with what was upon it. (JK, TA.) And خَسَفَ بِهِ الأَرْضَ , (S, K,) inf. n. خَسْفٌ , (S,) He (God) made him, or it, to disappear in the earth, or ground: (S, K:) [or made the earth, or ground, to sink with, and swallow up, him, or it:] whence, in the Kur [xxviii. 81], فَخَسَفْنَا بِهِ وَبِدَارِهِ الأَرْضَ [And we made the ground to sink with, and swallow up, him and his mansion]. (S.) And خَسَفْتُ عَيْنَ المَا=ءِ I made the spring of water to sink, or go away, into the earth. (Msb.) ― -b2- خَسَفَ عَيْنَ فُلَانٍ , (K, TA,) aor. خَسِفَ , inf. n. خَسْفٌ , (TA,) (tropical:) He put out, or blinded, the eye of such a one, (K, * TA,) so that the black, or part surrounded by the white, disappeared in the head. (TA.) ― -b3- خَسَفَ الشَّىْءَ , (K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) (tropical:) He made a hole in, or rent, the thing. (K, TA.) ― -b4- And (assumed tropical:) He cut, or cut off, the thing. (K.) ― -b5- خَسَفَ البِيءْرَ , (K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He dug the well in stones, so that it yielded an abundant and unceasing flow of water: (K, TA:) or he dug the well by piercing through its mountain [or rock] to the water beneath so that it would never become exhausted: or he dug the well so as to reach an unceasing, or a copious, source of water. (TA.) Hence the saying of 'Omar, in reply to a question of El-'Abbás respecting the poets, اِمْرَأُ القَيْسِ سَابِقُهُمْ خَسَفَ لَهُمْ عَيْنَ الشِّعْرِ , i. e. (assumed tropical:) [Imra-el-Keys is he who has the precedence of them:] he has made the source of poetry to well forth abundantly to them. (TA.) ― -b6- خَسَفَ النَّاقَةَ , inf. n. as above, (tropical:) He (God) made the she-camel, after yielding abundant milk, soon to stop [its flow] in winter. (K, TA.) ― -b7- خَسْفٌ also signifies The confining a beast without fodder: (K, TA:) or making a beast to pass the night without fodder: (Ham p. 290:) and (hence, TA) (tropical:) the constraining a man to do that which he dislikes, or hates; (JK, Ham ibid., K, TA;) as also خُسْفٌ : (JK:) and (hence, Ham) (tropical:) the lowering, humbling, or abasing, another: (Ham, * K, TA:) whence, سُمْتُهُ الخَسْفَ , (Ham,) or سَامَهُ خَسْفًا , &c.: [explained below: see خَسْفٌ :] (TA:) and the verb of خَسْفٌ in these three senses is خَسَفَ . (T, K.)

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أَخْسَفَتِ العَيْنُ : see 1. -A2- اخسف , said of a well-sinker, (assumed tropical:) He found his well to be such as is termed خَسِيف [q. v.]: (JK:) or he produced an abundant flow of water. (TA.)

اـِنْخَسَفَ see 1, in nine places.

خَسْفٌ خسف [an inf. n. of 1: and hence several of the significations here following.] Deep places in the ground ( عُمُوقُ ظَاهِرِ الأَرْضِ ; in the CK عُمُوقُ ماءِ الارضِ ); as also ↓ خُسْفٌ . (K, TA.) ― -b2- The place whence the water of a well issues. (AZ, S, K.) In the following saying of Sá'ideh El-Hudhalee, أَلَا يَا فَتَى مَا عَبْدُ شَمْسٍ بِمِثْلِهِ يُبَلُّ عَلَى العَادِى وَ تُوءْبِى المَخَاسِفُ the last word is pl. of خَسْفٌ [app. as signifying A source of water], after the manner of مَشَابِهُ and مَلَامِحُ : (TA:) the meaning is, [Truly, O young man, what is 'Abd-Shems? i. e.] how great a person is 'Abd-Shems! by the like of him the enemy is overcome [and the sources of water become difficult of access]. (M in art. بل .) ― -b3- A cloud, or collection of clouds, that has risen and appeared from the direction of the extreme west, [as North-western Africa is called by the Arabs,] from [the quarter of] the right of the Kibleh [to one who is on the north-east of Mekkeh, towards El-'Irák]: (Lth, K:) or it signifies, (JK, TA,) [and] so ↓ خِسْفٌ and ↓ خَسِيفٌ , (K,) a cloud, or collection of clouds, that has risen and appeared مِنْ قِبَلِ العَيْنِ , bearing much water; (JK, K, TA;) i. e., from [the quarter of] the right of the Kibleh [as explained above]. (TA.) -A2- (tropical:) Deficiency, or imperfection; a fault; or a low, or base, quality; (S, K, TA;) as also ↓ خَسِيفَةٌ . (TA.) One says, رَضِىَ فُلَانٌ بِالخَسْفِ (tropical:) Such a one was content with deficiency, or imperfection; &c. (S, TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) Leanness, or emaciation; (TA;) as also ↓ خَسِيفَةٌ . (JK.) ― -b3- [See also 1, last sentence. ― -b4- Hence,] بَاتَ القَوْمُ عَلَى الخَسْفِ (tropical:) The party passed the night in a state of hunger, not having anything wherewith to feed themselves: (TA:) and بَاتَ فُلَانٌ الخَسْفَ (tropical:) Such a one passed the night hungry: (S, K, TA:) and شَرِبْنَا عَلَىٰ الخَسْفِ (tropical:) We drank without eating. (IAar, IDrd, K, TA.) A poet says, بَتْنَا عَلَى الخَسْفِ لَا رِسْلٌ نُقَاتُ بِهِ حَتَّى جَعَلْنَا حِبَالَ الرَّحْلِ فُصْلَانَا [We passed the night in a state of hunger: there was no milk wherewith we might be fed, until we made the ropes of the camel's saddle to serve as young camels]: i. e. we had no food until we bound the she-camels with ropes in order that they might yield us milk [as though they had young ones to suckle], and we might feed ourselves with their milk. (O, TA.) [See also another ex., in a verse of Dhu-r-Rummeh, cited voce اـِلَّا , p. 78.] ― -b5- [Hence, also,] سَامَهُ خَسْفًا and ↓ خُسْفًا , (S, K,) and سَامَهُ الخَسْفَ , (S, Msb,) (tropical:) He brought upon him abasement, or ignominy: (S, Msb, K:) or he required, or constrained, him to do an affair of difficulty; and to become in a state of abasement, or ignominy. (S, TA.) [See also two similar phrases voce خُطَّةٌ .] ― -b6- [And hence,] خَسْفٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) Wrong, wrongdoing, injustice, injuriousness, or tyranny. (TA.) [And سَامَهُ خَسْفًا , or الخَسْفَ , sometimes means (assumed tropical:) He brought upon him wrong, &c.] -A3- See also the next paragraph.

خُسْفٌ خسف : [see 1, last sentence: and] see خَسْفٌ , in two places. ― -b2- دَعِ الأَمْرَ بِخُسْفٍ means (assumed tropical:) Leave thou the thing, or affair, as it is. (Sgh, K.) -A2- The [fruit called] جَوْز , which is eaten; [i. e. the walnut, or walnuts;] (AA, AHn, K;) of the dial. of the people of Esh-Shihr; (AA;) as also ↓ خَسْفٌ : (AA, K:) accord. to ISd, the former is the correct word: (TA:) n. un. with ة . (JK.)

خِسْفٌ خسف : see خَسْفٌ .

خَسْفَةٌ خسف خسفه خسفة [app. A leanness, or an emaciation: see 1, and see also خَسْفٌ ]: this befalls camels, and sheep or goats, in the heat and in the cold. (A, TA.) -A2- Also sing. of ↓ أَخَاسِيفُ , (JK,) which signifies Soft tracts of land: (S, K, * TA:) or level lands: (JK:) and one says also ↓ أَخَاسِفُ [and thus the word is written in the CK]. (Fr, TA.) One says, مِنَ الأَرْضِ ↓ وَقَعُوا فِى أَخَاسِيفَ They became in soft tracts of land. (S.) [See also أَخَاشِفُ , in art. خشف .]

خَسَوفٌ خسوف : see the next paragraph.

خَسِيفٌ خسيف (tropical:) A spring, or source, ( عَيْنٌ , [shown in the TA to have this meaning here,]) sinking, or going away [into the earth]; as also ↓ خَاسِفٌ ; (K, TA;) in like manner without ة . (TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A well ( بِيءْرٌ ) dug in stones, so that it yields an abundant and unceasing flow of water; (S, K;) as also خَسِيفَةٌ and ↓ خَسُوفٌ and ↓ مَخْسُوفَةٌ ; (K;) or, as some say, خَسِيفٌ only: (TA:) or this signifies a well pierced through its mountain [or rock] to the water beneath so that it never becomes exhausted; (JK, TA;) as also ↓ مَخْسُوفَةٌ : (JK:) or a well dug so as to reach an unceasing, or a copious, source of water: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَخْسِفَةٌ (JK, K) and [of mult.] خُسُفٌ . (S, K.) ― -b3- (tropical:) A she-camel that yields abundant milk, but soon stops [its flow] in winter. (K, TA.) [And] with ة , (assumed tropical:) A she-camel that yields abundant milk. (JK.) ― -b4- See also خَسْفٌ . ― -b5- عَيْنٌ خَسِيفَةٌ (Mgh, K, TA) and ↓ خَاسِفَةٌ (JK, Mgh) (tropical:) An eye put out, or blinded; (JK, K, TA;) of which the black, or part surrounded by the white, has disappeared in the head. (JK, Mgh, TA.) -A2- الخَسِيفَان , thus correctly written, as in the L, and so in the Nawádir of Aboo-'Amr Esh-Sheybánee, and in the Tedhkireh of Aboo-'Alee El-Hejeree, who asserts that the ن is the ن of the dual, and in one dial. with damm, [so that the word is written الخَسِيفَانِ and الخَسِيفَانُ ,] and on whose authority is mentioned the saying هُمَا خَلِيلَانُ , with damm to the ن , [so that each is a dual in form, though not in signification,] but in the O and the K ↓ الخَيْسَفَانُ , [in the CK الخِيسَفَانُ ,] with fet-h to the س , and [↓ الخَيْسُفَانُ ,] with damm to that letter, (TA,) Bad dates: (O, K:) so in the Nawádir and Tedhkireh above mentioned: (TA:) or a palm-tree that bears a small quantity of fruit, and of which the unripe dates turn bad. (O, K.)

خَسِيفَةٌ خسيفه خسيفة [as an epithet, fem. of خَسِيفٌ , q. v.:] as a subst.: see خَسْفٌ , in two places.

خَاسِفٌ خاسف , and its fem., with ة : see خَسِيفٌ , in two places. ― -b2- Also (tropical:) Lean, or emaciated. (S, K.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) A body altered, or altered for the worse. (A, TA.) (assumed tropical:) A man (JK) altered, or altered for the worse, in colour, or complexion, (JK, Ibn-'Abbád, K,) and in aspect. (JK.) ― -b4- (tropical:) Hungry. (AHeyth, TA.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) A boy light, or active, (K, TA,) and brisk, lively, or sprightly; as also خَاشِفٌ . (TA.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) A man convalescent; or recovering from disease; syn. نَاقِهٌ : (AA, K: [see 1:]) pl. خُسُفٌ . (K.)

الخَيْسَفَانُ الخيسفان and الخَيْسُفَانُ : see خَسِيفٌ .

أَخَاسِفُ and أَخَاسِيفُ : see خَسْفَةٌ , in three places.

المُخَسَّفُ المخسف The lion. (TS, K.)

مَخْسُوفَةٌ مخسوفه مخسوفة , applied to a well: see خَسِيفٌ , in two places.

المَخَاسِفُ المخاسف : see خَسْفٌ .

Derived forms · 6

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يَخْسِفَ3 occurrences
فَخَسَفْنَا1 occurrence
لَخَسَفَ1 occurrence
خَسَفْنَا1 occurrence
نَخْسِفْ1 occurrence
وَخَسَفَ1 occurrence

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خَسَفَ8

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