Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

خَطِفَهُ, aor. ـَ {يَخْطَفُ}, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) inf. n. خَطْفٌ; (Ṣ, TA;) this is the approved form of the verb; (T, Ṣ;) and خَطَفَهُ, aor. ـِ {يَخْطِفُ}, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) inf. n. as above; (Mṣb;) a form of the verb mentioned by Akh, (Ṣ,) but this is rare, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) or (Ḳ) bad, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) scarcely, or not at all, known; (Ṣ;) andاختطفهُ↓, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, TA,) andتخطّفهُ↓; (Ṣ Mṣb, TA;) He seized it; or took it, or carried it off, by force: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or he did so quickly; snatched it away: (Mgh, Mṣb, TA:) andخطّف↓ has been said to imply repetition of the action [unless it be a variation of اختطف as in a case mentioned below]; but this is strange, and not known on any other authority than that of the “Akáneem et-Taaleem” by El-Khuweiyee, a disciple of El-Fakhr Er-Rázee. (MF, TA.) Hence, in the Ḳur [xxix. 67],وَيُتَخَطَّفُ↓ النَّاسُ مِنْ حَوْلِهِمْ [And men are carried off by force from around them]. (TA.)

[And hence,] هٰذَا سَيْفٌ يَخْطَفُ الرَّأْسَ ‡ [This is a sword that will strike off the head]. (TA.)

And خَطِفَ البَصَرَ and خَطَفَهُ, said of lightning, (Ḳ,) and of a ray of light, and of a [glistening] sword, and of any polished body, (TA,) ‡ It took away the sight: (Ḳ, TA:) andاُخْتُطِفَ بَصَرُهُ↓ ‡ His sight was suddenly taken away. (M and Ḳ in art. ملس.) It is said in the Ḳur [ii. 19], يَكَادُ البَرْقُ يَخْطَفُ أَبْصَارَهُمْ ‡ [The lightning almost taketh away their sight, lit. sights]: (TA:) Yoo read يَخْطِفُ ابصارهم; (Ṣ, TA;) and so did Aboo-Rejà and Mujáhid: and some read↓يِخِطِّفُ, andيَخَطِّفُ↓, originally يَخْتَطِفُ, accord. to the opinion of the Basrees, disputed by Fr, but confirmed by Zj. (TA.)

And خَطِفَ السَّمْعَ, (Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَخْطَفُ}, (Ṣ,) said of a devil, ‡ He stole [an opportunity of] hearing [the speech of the angels, from the confines of the lowest Heaven; or snatched it]; (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA;) as alsoاختطفهُ↓: (Ḳ:) the two verbs being like نَزَعَهُ and اِنْتَزَعَهُ. (Sb, TA.) Hence, in the Ḳur [xxxvii. 10],إِلَّا مَنْ خَطِفَ الخَطْفَةَ↓ ‡ Except him who steals the [opportunity of] hearing: (TA:) or who snatches unawares and by stealth, (Bḍ,) or hears and snatches, (Jel,) the speech of the angels: (Bḍ, Jel:) El-Ḥasan readالّا من خَطَّفَ↓ الخطفة, originally ٱخْتَطَفَ: (Ṣ, TA:) and another reading, ascribed to him and others, isخِطِّفَ↓; but this is very weak. (TA.)

خَطِفَ, aor. ـَ {يَخْطَفُ}; and خَطَفَ, aor. ـِ {يَخْطِفُ}; inf. n. خَطَفَانٌ; (Ḳ;) thus in all the copies of the Ḳ, but correctly خَطْفٌ, as in the L; (TA;) said of a camel, † He went along quickly. (Ḳ, TA.) And مَرَّ يَخْطَفُ خَطْفًا مُنْكَرًا † He went along at a quick rate [such as was deemed strange, or disapproved]. (TA.) And خَطِفَتِ السَّفِينَةُ, and خَطَفَت, † The ship sailed, or voyaged: you say, خَطِفَتِ اليَوْمَ مِنْ عُمَانَ † She sailed,. or voyaged, to-day, from 'Omán. (TA.)

اخطف بِالأَمْرِ He said, Seize thou this [thing], O man; or take it, or carry it off, by force; or snatch it away. (Ṣgh.)

أَخْطَفَ لِى مِنْ حَدِيثِهِ شَيْئًا ثُمَّ سَكَتَ, inf. n. إِخْطَافٌ, † He cut short somewhat of his discourse, or narrative, which he had begun to me, on some other thing's occurring to his mind, and was silent. (TA.)

أَخْطَفَتْهُ الحُمَّى, (Lḥ, O, TA,) or أَخْطَفَتْ عَنْهُ, (JK,) or

اِخْتَطَفَتْهُ, (Ḳ,) † The fever left him, or quitted him. (Lḥ, JK, O, Ḳ.)

اخطفهُ المَوْتُ † [Death missed him by a little;] he escaped death by a little. (JK.) And اخطف الرَّمِيَّةَ † He missed the animal at which he shot or cast, (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ,) nearly hitting it: (JK:) and in like manner, الشَّىْءَ the thing. (Ibn-Buzurj, TA.) And He captured, or caught, the animal at which he shot or cast; expl. by إِذَا كَانَ يَصِيدُهَا [perhaps a mistranscription for يُصِيبُهَا, and, if so, meaning he hit]. (JK.) And اخطف said of an arrow, † [It missed: or it fell upon the ground, and then glided along upon the ground to the butt, or object of aim: (see خَاطِفٌ:) and] it went straight. (TA.)

اخطف said of a man, † He became affected with a slight sickness, and then speedily recovered. (TA.)

أِخْطَافُ الحَشَا i. q. اِنْطِوَآؤُهُ [meaning † The state of being lean, or lank, in the belly: see مُخْطَفٌ]. (Ṣ, TA.) الأِخْطَافُ in horses is a fault: it is † The contr. of الاِنْتِفَاخُ: AHeyth says that it is, in horses, † smallness of the جَوْف [here meaning the belly, or abdomen]. (TA.)

تخاطفوا الكُرَةَ بَيْنَهُمْ [They contended together in snatching away the ball] with the goffsticks. (Ḳ * and TA in art. جحف.)

اختطف; and its variations خَطَّفَ and خِطِّفَ; and يِخِطِّفُ and يَخِطِّفُ, variations of its aor.: see 1, in seven places.

كَأَنَّهُ يَخْتَطِفُ فِى مَشْيِهِ عُنُقَهُ, said of a swift camel, means As though he were straining, or stretching, (يَجْتَذِبُ,) in his going along, his neck. (Ṣ.)

See also 4.

خُطْفٌ † A slight disease; as alsoخَطْفَةٌ↓. (JK.)

مَا مِنْ مَرَضٍ إِلَّا وَلَهُ خُطْفٌ † There is no disease but there is for it a cure. (JK, Ḳ.)

خُطْفٌ andخُطُفٌ↓ † Leanness; or lankness of the belly: and † lightness of the flesh of the side. (TA)

خُطُفٌ: see what next precedes.

بِهِ خُطُفٌ † In him (namely, a man, JK) is madness, or diabolical possession; (JK, TA;) as alsoخُطَّفٌ↓: but this latter may be either a pl., like ضُرَّبٌ [pl. of ضَارِبٌ], or a sing. (TA.)

خَطْفَةٌ A single act of seizing; or, of taking, or carrying off, by force: (TA:) or, of doing so quickly; of snatching away. (Mgh, Mṣb, TA.) Hence, [in a trad.,] accord. to one reading, نَهَى عَنْ كُلِّ ذِى خَطْفَةٍ, meaning He prohibited the prey of whatever snatches away the prey, and goes away with it, not withholding it for its owner: or, as some say, what snatches away with its talon, or claw: but the reading commonly known is, نَهَى عَنِ الخَطْفَةِ: (Mgh:) and الخَطْفَةُ signifies what the wolf, (Mgh, Mṣb, TA,) or the like, (Mṣb,) snatches away, (Mgh, Mṣb, TA,) of the limbs, or members, of a living sheep or goat, (Mgh, TA,) or of a living animal; (Mṣb;) or what the dog snatches away from the limbs, or members, of the animal of the chase, of flesh, &c., while the animal is alive: (Mgh, TA:) or the limb, or member, which the beast or bird of prey seizes, or carries off by force, or which a man cuts off, from the beast that is alive: (Ḳ, TA:) for whatever is separated from the living animal, (Mgh, TA,) of flesh or fat, (TA,) is carrion, (Mgh, TA,) unlawful to be eaten: the prohibition originated from the Prophet's finding, when he came to El-Medeeneh, that the people loved and ate the humps of camels and the tails of sheep: (TA:) the reading الخَطَفَة, of the measure فَعَلَة, with fet-ḥ to the medial radical letter, as pl. of خَاطِفٌ, is a mistake. (Mgh.)

Also † A single suck of a small quantity of milk quickly taken by a child from the breast. (TA.)

For its meaning in the Ḳur xxxvii. 10, see 1.

See also خُطْفٌ.

خَطَفَى † Quickness in pace or going, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) of a camel, as though he were straining, or stretching, his neck, in going along; (Ṣ; [see 8;]) as alsoخَيْطَفَى↓, (Ḳ,) andخَيْطَفٌ↓. (JK, TA.)

See also the last of these words below.

خَطِيفَةٌ The act of seizing, or carrying off by force; or, of snatching away at unawares. (TA.)

Flour sprinkled upon milk, (Ṣ,) or flour upon which milk is sprinkled, (JK, Ḳ,) then cooked, (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ,) and licked, or eaten with the finger, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and snatched up with spoons: (Ḳ:) IAạr says that it is [what is called] جَبُولَآءُ [a word I have not found in any other instance]: (Ṣ:) or, with the Arabs, it is a food made with milk (لَبَنِيَّةٌ), which is heated, then flour is sprinkled upon it, and then it is cooked, and people lick it, or eat it with the finger, snatching it up hastily. (Az, TA.)

الخَطَّافُ [lit. He that is wont to seize,, &c.: and particularly † he that is wont to snatch, or steal, opportunities of hearing the speech of the angels, from the confines of the lowest Heaven: and hence.] applied in a trad. to † the Devil, or Satan: (Ṣ, TA:) or, as some say, it is in this instance الخُطَّافُ↓, as pl. of خَاطِفٌ, [and therefore meaning † the devils,] or as being likened to the hooked iron called خُطَّاف. (TA.)

أَبُو الخَطَّافِ a surname of The حِدَأَة [or kite]. (TA in art. حدأ.)

خُطَّافٌ [The swallow; thus called in the present day;] a certain bird, (JK, Ṣ, Mgh,) well known; (JK, Mgh;) a certain black bird; (Ḳ;) the عُصْفُور [or passerine bird] which the common people call عُصْفُورُ الجَنَّةِ [the عصفور of Paradise]: pl. خَطَاطِيفُ. (ISd, TA.) [See also خُشَّافٌ.]

The bent, or crooked, piece of iron which is on each side of the sheave of a pulley, and in which is the pin whereon the sheave turns: (Aṣ,* JK, Ṣ, Ḳ:) it confines the sheave on each side: (TA:) that which is of wood is termed قَعْوٌ. (Aṣ, TA.) Also (Ṣ [in the Ḳ “or”]) Any crooked, or hooked, iron: (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA:) pl. as above. (TA.) [An iron hook: a grapple: a grapnel: and the like.] The خُطَّافَانِ of a bit are The two bent pieces of iron in the مِسْحَل and the شَكِيمَة, on the right and left. (IDrd in his “Book on the Saddle and Bridle.”) And خَطَاطِيفُ signifies ‡ The claws, or talons, of a beast or bird of prey; (Ṣ, TA;) as being likened to a hooked iron. (TA.)

† A wicked thief: so in the saying of Abu-nNejm,

* وَٱسْتَصْحَبُوا كُلَّ عِمٍ أُمِّىِّ *

* مِنْ كُلِّ خُطَّافٍ وَأَعْرَابِىِّ *

† [And they took as companions every blind illiterate man, of every wicked thief and Arab of the desert]. (TA.) يَا ٱبْنَ خُطَّافٍ [app. meaning † O son of a wicked thief] was said by a woman to Jereer, in derision. (TA.)

See also the paragraph next preceding this.

† A mark made with a hot iron upon a camel, like the خُطَّاف of the sheave of a pulley. (JK, L, Ḳ.*)

† The part, of a horse, which is the place of the heel of the rider. (JK.)

Also pl. of خَاطِفٌ. (TA. See الخَطَّافُ.)

خَاطِفٌ [act. part. n. of 1, Seizing,, &c.]: pl. خُطَّافٌ. (TA.)

الخَاطِفُ The wolf; (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ;) because he seizes, or carries off by force, his prey. (TA.)

خَاطِفُ ظِلِّهِ A certain bird, (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ,) said by Ibn-Selemeh to be called الرَّفْرَافُ; (Ṣ, [so in three copies, not رَقْرَاق as in Freytag's Lex.,] TA;) that sees its shadow, and thinks it to be a bird; (JK;) or when it sees its shadow in the water, it advances to it to seize it, (Ṣ, L, Ḳ,) thinking it to be a prey: (L, TA:) [see خَيَالٌ:] it is one of the birds of the deserts, and is [said to be] thus called because of the swiftness with which it pounces down; it is green, or of a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour, (أَخْضَرُ,) in the back; white in the belly; long in the wings, and short in the neck: (Mṣb in art. لعب:) also called مُلَاعِبُ ظِلِّهِ. (Ṣ and Mṣb in that art.)

بَرْقٌ خَاطِفٌ ‡ Lightning that takes away the sight. (JK, Ṣ,* TA.*)

سَهْمٌ خَاطِفٌ † An arrow that falls upon the ground, and then glides along upon the ground to the butt, or object of aim; as though snatching something from the ground: pl. خَوَاطِفُ: (Ḥam p. 573:) or خَوَاطِفُ signifies arrows that miss; for مُخْطِفَاتٌ. (TA.)

خَيْطَفٌ, (Ḳ,) orخَطِيفٌ↓, (Ṣ, [so in my copies,]) † A quick, or swift, camel; (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA;) as though he strained, or stretched, his neck, in going along: (Ṣ: [see 8:]) and the former, † a camel of the [excellent and swift] kind called مَهَارِىّ: pl. خَيَاطِفُ. (TA.)

خَيْطَفٌ, (TA,) orخَطَفَى↓, (JK,) [as meaning † Quick,] is also applied to [the pace termed] عَنَقٌ; (JK, TA;) and soخَيْطَفَى↓. (JK.)

See also خَطَفَى.

خَيْطَفَى: see خَطَفَى:

and see also خَيْطَفٌ.

خَاطُوفٌ A thing like a reaping-hook, which is tied to a snare, and by which the gazelle is caught. (JK, O, L, Ḳ.)

مُخْطَفُ الحَشَا, applied to a horse, † Lean, or lank, in the part of the belly that is behind the place of the girth: (Ṣ:) and مُخْطَفٌ [alone] is applied to a man [in a similar sense]; as alsoمَخْطُوفٌ↓: (TA:) and مُخْطَفُ البَطْنِ † lean, or lank, in the belly; syn. مُنْطَوِيهِ; (Lth, Ḳ;) applied to a camel, and to an ass: (Lth, TA:) andأَخْطَفُ↓ الحَشَا andمَخْطُوفُهُ↓, applied to a man, [signify the same,] ‡ i. q. ضَامِرُهُ. (TA.)

مِخْطَفٌ ‡ A sword that takes away the sight by its glistening. (TA.)

مَخْطُوفٌ: see مُخْطَفُ الحَشَا, in two places.

Also † A camel branded with a mark like the خُطَّاف of the sheave of a pulley. (JK, L, Ḳ.)