Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

خَلَّ لَحْمُهُ, aor. ـُ {يَخْلُلُ} (Ks, Ṣ, Ḳ, TA, in the CK ـَ,) [irreg. in the case of an intrans. v. of this class, unless the verb be of the measure فَعُلَ,] and ـِ, (Ḳ,) [agreeably with general rule,] inf. n. خَلٌّ and خُلُولٌ; (Ks, Ṣ, Ḳ;) andاختلّ↓; (Ṣgh, Ḳ;) His flesh became little, or scanty; (Ks, Ṣ;) or his flesh decreased, diminished, or wasted: (Ḳ:) he became lean, or spare. (Ks, Ṣ, Ḳ.) [But it seems, from what follows, that the verb may be of the measure فَعِلَ,, aor. ـَ {يَخْلَلُ}; as well as of the measure فَعَلَ, aor. ـِ {يَخْلِلُ} or ـُ; or perhaps of the measures فَعِلَ and فَعَلَ and فَعُلَ, so that the aor. may be regularly ـَ and ـِ and ـُ.]

You say also خَلِلْتُ مِنْ كَذَا I missed such a thing. (JK.) And خَلَّ البَعِيرُ مِنَ الرَّبِيعِ The camel missed the [herbage called] ربيع, and became lean in consequence thereof. (JK, Ibn-ʼAbbád, TA.)

And خَلَّ, (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ,) inf. n. خَلٌّ; (TA;) andأَخَلَّ↓, (JK, Mṣb, TA,) orأُخِلَّ↓, (Ḳ,) andأُخِلَّ↓ بِهِ; (Ṣ, TA;) andاختلّ↓; (MA, KL;) said of a man, (JK, Ṣ, Mṣb,) He was, or became, poor, or in want or need. (JK, Ṣ, MA, KL, Mṣb, Ḳ, AT.)

خَلَّ الشَّىْءَ, (Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَخْلُلُ}, inf. n. خَلٌّ, (TA,) He, or it, perforated the thing; transpierced it, or pierced it through; as alsoتخلّلهُ↓: (Ḳ:) so in the M. (TA.) You say, خَلَلْتُ الشَّىْءَ بِالخِلَالِ, aor. ـُ {يَخْلُلُ}, I transfixed, or transpierced, the thing with the [pin called] خلال. (JK,) [And خَلَّ اللَّحْمَ He skewered the flesh-meat.] And خَلَلْتُهُ بِالرُّمْحِ I pierced him with the spear. (JK.) Andاختلّهُ↓ بِالرُّمْحِ He transpierced him, or transfixed him, with the spear; (T, M, Ḳ, TA;) and so بِالسَّهْمِ with the arrow: (Ṣ:) or the former signifies he pierced him with the spear and transfixed his heart: (TA:) accord. to AZ, الاِخْتِلَالُ relates to the heart and the liver. (M in art. نظم.) Andيَخْتَلًّ↓ الثَّوْرُ الكَلْبَ بِقَرْنِهِ [The bull pierces the dog with his horn]. (JK. [It is there vaguely indicated thatخِلَّةٌ↓ signifies The act, or perhaps the effect, of a bull's piercing a dog with his horn.]) Andتخلّلهُ↓ بِالرُّمْحِ He pierced him time after time with the spear. (M, Ḳ.)

And خَلَّ الفَصِيلَ, (Ḳ,) inf. n. خَلٌّ, (TA,) He slit the tongue of the young camel, and inserted into it a wooden pin called خِلَال, in order that he might not such: (Ḳ:) or [simply] he slit the tongue of the young camel, in order that he might not be able to such [any longer], so that he became lean; as also خَلَّ لِسَانَ الفَصِيلِ: (Ṣ:) or الخَلُّ signifies the fixing a خِلَال above the nose of the young camel, to prevent his sucking. (TA in art. لهج.)

And خَلَّةُ, (T, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ, TA,) aor. ـُ {يَخْلُلُ}, inf. n. خَلٌّ, (Ṣ, Mṣb, TA,) namely, a thing, (TA,) a garment, (T, TA,) a [garment such as is called] كِسَآء (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA) or رَدَآء (Mgh, Mṣb), &c., (TA,) and a [tent such as is called] خِبَآء, (Ṣ, TA,) He pinned it with the [pin called] خِلَال; (T, TA;) he conjoined (Mgh, Mṣb, TA) its two edges, (Mgh, Mṣb,) or its edges, (TA,) or he fastened it, (Ḳ,) with a خِلَال: (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ, TA:) andخلّلهُ↓ has a similar, but intensive, signification. (Mṣb) A poet says,

* سَمِعْنَ بِمَوْتِهِ فَظَهَرْنَ نَوْحًا *

* قِيَامًا مَا يُخَلُّ لَهُنَّ عُودُ *

meaning, لَا يُخَلُّ لَهُنَّ ثَوْبٌ بِعُودٍ [i. e. They (the women) heard of his death, and appeared, wailing, standing; no garment of theirs having its edges fastened together with a pointed piece of wood]. (TA.)

خَلَّ الإِبِلَ, (Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَخْلُلُ}, inf. n. خَلٌّ, (TA,) He removed, transferred, or shifted, the camels to what is termed خُلَّة [after they had been pasturing upon حَمْض]; as alsoأَخَلَّهَا↓: (Ḳ:) or the latter signifies he pastured them upon خُلَّة. (Ṣ.)

خَلَّ, (Lḥ, Ṣ, Ḳ,) [aor. ـُ {يَخْلُلُ},] inf. n. خَلٌّ, (TA,) is also syn. with خَصَّ [He particularized, or specified]; (Lḥ, Ṣ, Ḳ;) contr. of عَمَّ; (Ḳ;) and soخلّل↓: (JK, Ṣ, TA:) thus in the phrase, عَمَّ فِى دُعَائِهِ وَخَلَّ (Ṣ, TA) and وَخَلَّلَ (JK, Ṣ, TA) [He included, or comprehended, persons or things in common, or in general, in his prayer or supplication, &c., and particularized, or specified, some person or thing, or some persons or things].

خلّل أَسْنَانَهُ, inf. n. تَخْلِيلٌ, [He picked his teeth;] he extracted the remains of food between his teeth with a خِلَال [or toothpick]; (Mṣb, Ḳ,* in which latter the pass. form of the verb is mentioned;) and soتخلّل↓, alone; (T, Ṣ,* O, TA;) but accord. to the Ḳ, you say, تخلّلهُ [he extracted it], meaning the remains of food between the teeth. (TA.)

خلّل الشَّعَرَ بِالمُشْطِ [He separated the hair with the comb; he combed the hair]. (Mgh voce تَشْرِيحٌ.)

خلّل لِحْيَتَهُ, (Ṣ,* Mṣb, Ḳ,) and أَصَابِعَهُ, (Ṣ,* Ḳ,) inf. n. as above, (Ṣ,) He made the water to flow into the interstices of his beard, (Mṣb, Ḳ,) and of his fingers or toes, (Ḳ,) in the ablution termed وُضُوْء; (Ṣ, TA;) andتخلّل↓, alone, signifies the same. (Ṣ.) It (the former) is as though it were taken from تَخَلَّلْتُ القَوْمَ meaning “I entered amid the breaks, or interspaces, of the people.” (Mṣb.) Hence the trad., خَلِّلُوا أَصَابِعَكُمْ لَا تُخَلَّلَهَا نَارٌ قَلِيلٌ بُقْيَاهَا [Make ye the water to flow into the interstices of your fingers or toes, lest fire that shall spare little be made to flow into their interstices]. (TA.)

خلّلهُ كِلْسًا He put صَارُوج [or كِلْس, i. e. quick lime,, &c.,] into the interstices of its (a building's) stones. (TA in art. كلس.)

خلّل القِثَّآءَ, and البِطِّيخَ, inf. n. as above, He investigated the state of the cucumbers, and the melons, or water-melons, so as to see every one that had not grown, and put another in its place. (AA, TA.)

See also 1, in the latter half of the paragraph.

And see 1 again, last sentence.

خلّل, inf. n. تَخْلِيلٌ, said of wine and of other beverages, It became acid, or sour; and spoiled: (Ḳ:) or, said of شَرَاب [i. e. wine and the like], (Mgh,) or of نَبِيذ [i. e. must and the like], (Mṣb,) or of expressed juice, (Ḳ,) it became vinegar; (Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ;) as alsoاختلّ↓; (Lth, Ḳ;) but this is disallowed by Az; (TA;) andتخلّل↓; but this is of the language of the lawyers; (Mgh;) or, said of نبيذ, this last signifies it was made into vinegar: (Mṣb:) or خلّل, said of شراب, signifies it spoiled, (JK, T,) and became vinegar. (T.)

تَخْلِيلٌ also signifies The making vinegar; (Ṣ;) and soاِخْتِلَالٌ↓; (Ḳ;) i. e. of the expressed juice of grapes and of dates. (TA.) You say, خلّل الخَمْرَ, (Ḳ,) or الشَّرَابَ, (Mgh,) or النَّبِيذ, inf. n. as above, (Mṣb,) the verb being trans. as well as intrans., (Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) andتخلّل↓ النَّبِيذَ, (TA,) He made the wine, or beverage, or must or the like, into vinegar. (Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ, TA.)

And خلّل البُسْرَ He put the full-grown unripe dates in the sun, and then sprinkled them (نَضَحَهُ, in some copies of the Ḳ نضجه,) with vinegar, and placed them in a jar: (Ḳ:) so in the M: and in like manner, other things than بُسْر; as cucumbers, and cabbage, and بَاذَنْجَان [q. v.], and onions. (TA.) [Accord. to modern usage, the verb signifies He pickled.]

خالّهُ, (JK, Mgh, Ḳ,) inf. n. مُخَالَّةٌ and خِلَالٌ (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ) and [quasi-inf. n.] خُلَّةٌ↓, (JK,) He acted, or associated, with him as a friend, or as a true, or sincere, friend. (JK, Ṣ,* Mgh, Ḳ.) لَا بَيْعٌ فِيهِ وَلَا خِلَالٌ, in the Ḳur [xiv. 36], is said to mean [Wherein shall be no buying or selling] nor mutual befriending: or [and no friends, or true friends, for], as some say, خِلَالٌ is here pl. ofخُلَّةٌ↓, like as جِلَالٌ is pl. of جُلَّةٌ. (TA.)

أَخَلَّ and أُخِلَّ and أُخِلَّ بِهِ: see 1, near the beginning.

أخَلَّ بِهِ He (a man) fell, or stopped, short in it; fell short of accomplishing it; fell short of doing what was requisite, or due, or what he ought to have done, in it, or with respect to it; or flagged, or was remiss, in it; namely, a thing; syn. قَصَّرَ فِيهِ; (Mṣb;) as, for instance, in belief, and in confession thereof, and in works: (Ksh and Bḍ in ii. 2:) he left it, neglected it, omitted it; or left it undone: (Ḥar p. 402:) or i. q. أَجْحَفَ بِهِ [app. as meaning he was near to falling short of accomplishing it, or of doing what was requisite in it; or was near to being remiss in it]; namely, a thing. (Ḳ.)

He failed of fulfilling his compact with him, or his promise to him. (Ḳ.)

He became absent, or he absented himself, from it; he left, abandoned, or quitted, it; namely, a place, &c. (Ḳ.) You say, اخلّ بِمَرْكَزِهِ He (a man, Ṣ, or a horseman, Mgh) left, abandoned, or quitted, his station (Ṣ, Mgh) which the commander had appointed him. (Mgh.) And اخلّ بِهِمْ He became absent, or he absented himself, from them. (JK.)

اخلّ الوَالِى بِالثُّغُورِ The prefect made the frontiers to be kept by a small body of troops. (Ḳ.)

أَخَلَّ إِلَيْهِ: see 8.

اخلّهُ He made him, or caused him, to want, or be in need. (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ.) You say, مَا أَخَلَّكَ إِلَى هٰذَا What has made thee, or caused thee, to want, or be in need of, this? (Ṣ.) And مَا أَخَلَّكَ ٱللّٰهُ إِلَيْهِ What has God made thee, or caused thee, to want, or be in need of? (Lḥ, Ḳ.)

اخلّ الأِبِلَ: see 1, near the end of the paragraph.

اخلّوا, (Ḳ,) inf. n. إِخْلَالٌ, (TA,) Their camels pastured upon what is termed خُلَّة. (Ḳ.)

Hence, اخلّ said of a man signifies † أَخَذَ مِنْ قُبُلٍ [i. e. He took frontways]: opposed to أَحْمَضَ [and حَمَّضَ, q. v.], meaning أَخَذَ مِنْ دُبُرٍ. (TA.)

اخلّت النَّخْلَةُ The palmtree produced bad fruit. (A' Obeyd, JK, Ṣ, Ḳ.)

And The palm-tree produced dates such as are termed خَلَال: [like أَبْلَحَت from بَلَحٌ:] thus it bears two contr. significations. (Ḳ.)

تخلّل [primarily signifies It entered, or penetrated, or passed through, the خِلَال, i. e. interstices,, &c., of a thing]. You say, تَخَلَّلْتُ القَوْمَ I entered amid the breaks, or interspaces, of the people. (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ.*) And تَخَلَّلُوا الدِّيَارَ [They went through the midst of the houses]. (Ṣ in art. جوس.) And تخلّل الرَّمْلَ He passed through the sands. (Az, TA.) And تخلّل القَلْبَ † [It penetrated the heart]; said of admonition. (TA in art. بهم.) And تخلّل الاشَّىْءُ The thing [i. e. anything] went, or passed, through. (JK,* Ṣ, Ḳ.)

[Hence, It intervened; said of a time, &c. And hence the phrase مِنْ غَيْرِ تَخَلُّلِ Without interruption.]

And تخلّل المَطَرُ The rain was confined to a particular place, or to particular places; was not general. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

See also 1, in two places, in the former half of the paragraph.

تخلّل الرُّطَبَ He sought out the fresh ripe dates in the interstices of the roots of the branches (M, Ḳ) after the cutting off of the racemes of fruit. (M.) And تخلّل النَّخْلَةَ He picked the dates that were among the roots of the branches of the palm-tree; as also تَكَرَّبَهَا. (AḤn, TA.)

For other significations, see 2, in four places.

تَخَالٌّ [said of several persons] The being friendly, one with another. (KL.) [You say, تَخَالُّوا They acted together, or associated, as friends, or as true friends.]

اختلّ [primarily signifies] It had interstices, breaks, chinks, or the like. (MA. [See خَلَلٌ.])

[And hence,] It was, or became, shaky, loose, lax, uncompact, disordered, unsound, corrupt, (Mṣb,) faulty, or defective, (KL, Mṣb,) [and weak, or infirm, (see خَلَلٌ and مُخْتَلٌّ,)] said of a thing or an affair; (KL;) it became altered for the worse. (Mṣb.) [You say, اختلّ مِزَاجُهُ His constitution, or temperament, became in a corrupt or disordered state. And اختلّ alone He was, or became, disordered in temper; (see تَحَمَّضَ;) but this seems to be from the same verb said of a camel; (see اختلّت الأِبِلُ, below;) for the camel becomes disordered in his stomach by pasturing long upon خُلَّة, without shifting to حَمْض. And اختلّ عَقْلَهُ His mind, or intellect, was, or became, unsound, or disordered.] And اختلّ أَمْرُهُ [His affair, or state, was, or became, unsound, corrupt, or disordered]; (Ṣ, voce اِضْطَرَبَ;) i. e. وَقَعَ فِيهِ الخَلَلُ. (JM.)

He was, or became, lean, meagre, or emaciated; (KL;) and so اختلّ جِسْمُهُ. (Ṣ.) See 1, first sentence.

See also خَلَّ as syn. with أَخَلَّ or أُخِلَّ, &c., near the beginning of the first paragraph. [Hence,] اختلّ إِلَيْهِ He wanted it, or needed it; (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) namely, a thing; (Ṣ, Mṣb;) as alsoأَخَلَّ↓ اليه: (TA:) whence the saying of Ibn-Mesʼood, عَلَيْكُمْ بِالعِلْمِ فَإِنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ لَايَدْرِى مَتَى يُخْتَلُّ إِلَيْهِ [Keep ye to the pursuit of knowledge, or science; for any one of you knows not, or will not know, when it will be wanted, or needed]; i. e., when men will want, or need, that [knowledge] which he possesses. (Ṣ.) You say also, اُخْتُلَّ إِلَى فُلَانٍ Such a one was wanted, or needed. (JK.)

See also 2, in two places.

اختلّهُ بِالرُّمْحِ, and بِالسَّهْمِ: and يَخْتَلُّ الثَّوْرُ الكَلْبَ بِقَرْنِهِ: see 1, in the former half of the paragraph.

اختلّ also signifies He served together. (KL.)

اُخْتُلَّ said of herbage: see خُلَّةٌ, near the end of the paragraph.

اختلّ المَكَانُ The place had in it خُلَّة [q. v.]. (MA.)

And اختلّت الإِبِلُ The camels were confined in [pasturage such as is termed] خُلَّة. (Ḳ.)

خَلْخَلَهَا He attired her with the خِلْخَال [or anklet, or pair of anklets]. (TA.)

خلخل العَظْمَ He took the flesh that was upon the bone. (Ḳ.)

تَخَلْخَلَتْ She attired herself with the خَلْخَال [or anklet, or pair of anklets]. (Ḳ.)

تخلخل It (a garment, or piece of cloth,) was, or became, old, and worn out. (JK.)

خَلٌّ a word of well-known meaning, (Ṣ, Mṣb.) Vinegar; i. e. expressed juice of grapes (JK, Mgh, Ḳ) and of dates (JK) &c. (Ḳ) that has become acid, or sour: (JK,* Mgh, Ḳ:) so called because its sweet flavour has become altered for the worse (اِخْتَلَّ): (Mṣb:) a genuine Arabic word: (IDrd, Ḳ:) the best is that of wine: it is composed of two constituents (Ḳ) of subtile natures, (TA,) hot and cold, (Ḳ,) the cold being predominant: (TA:) and is good for the stomach; and for the gums, (Ḳ,) which it strengthens, when one rinses the mouth with it; (TA;) and for foul ulcers or sores; and for the itch; and for the bite, or sting, of venomous reptiles; and as an antidote for the eating of opium; and for burns; and for toothache; and its hot vapour is good for the dropsy, and for difficulty of hearing, and for ringing in the ears: (Ḳ: [various other properties, &c. are assigned to it in the TA:]) خَلَّةٌ↓ signifies somewhat (lit. a portion) thereof; [being the n. un.:] (Aboo-Ziyád, Ḳ;) or it may be a dial. var. thereof, like as خَمْرَةٌ is [said by some to be] of خَمْرٌ: (Aboo-Ziyád, TA:) see also خَلَّةٌ: the pl. is خُلُولٌ [meaning sorts, or kinds, of vinegar]. (Mṣb.) It is said in a trad., نِعْمَ الإِدَامُ الخَلُّ [Excellent, or most excellent, is the seasoning, vinegar!]. (TA.)

[Hence,] أُمُّ الخَلِّ [The mother of vinegar; meaning] wine. (JK, TA.)

[Hence also the saying,] مَا فُلَانٌ بِخَلٍّ وَلَا خَمْرٍ, (AʼObeyd, JK, Ṣ,) or مَا لَهُ خَلٌّ وَلَا خَمْرٌ, (Ḳ,) or مَا عِنْدَ فُلَانٍ خَلٌّ وَلَا خَمْرٌ, (Ṣ, in art. خمر,) Such a one, or he, possesses neither good nor evil: (AʼObeyd, JK, Ṣ, Ḳ:) [or neither evil nor good: for] AA says that some of the Arabs make الخَمْرُ to be good, and الخَلُّ to be evil; [and thus the latter is explained in one place, in this art., in the Ḳ;] and some of them make الخمر to be evil, and الخلّ to be good. (Ḥar p. 153.)

I. q. حَمْضٌ [i. e. A kind of plants in which is saltness: or salt and bitter plants: or salt, or sour, plants or trees:, &c.: opposed to خُلَّةٌ]. (Ḳ.) A poet says,

* لَيْسَتْ مِنَ الخَلِّ وَلَا الخِمَاطِ *

[She is not, or they are not, of the plants or trees called خلّ, nor of the kind called خماط (pl. of خَمْطٌ)]. (TA.)

A road in sands: (Ṣ:) or a road passing through sands: or a road between two tracts of sand: (Ḳ:) or a road passing through heaped-up sands: (JK, Ḳ:) masc. and fem. [like طَرِيقٌ]: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) pl. [of pauc.] أَخْلٌّ and [of mult.] خِلَالٌ. (Ḳ.) One says حَيَّةُ خَلٍّ [A serpent of a road in sands,, &c.]; like as one says أَفْعَى صَرِيمَةٍ. (Ṣ.)

An oblong tract of sand. (Ḥam p. 709.)

A vein in the neck (JK, Ḳ) and in the back, (Ḳ,) communicating with the head. (JK, TA.)

A slit, or rent, in a garment, or piece of cloth. (Ḳ.)

An old and worn-out garment, or piece of cloth, (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ, TA,) in which are streaks: (TA:) [or so ثَوْبٌ خَلٌّ:] andخَلْخَلٌ↓ andخَلْخَلٌ↓, applied to a garment, or piece of cloth, (JK, Ḳ,) signify old and worn out, (JK,) or thin, (Ḳ,) like هَلْهَلٌ and هَلْهَالٌ. (TA.)

A bird having no feathers: (JK:) or having few feathers. (Ḳ.)

A man (JK, Ṣ) lean, meagre, or emaciated; (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ;) as alsoخَلِيلٌ↓ (Ḳ) [a meaning said in the TA to be tropical] andمَخْلُولٌ↓ andمُخْتَلٌّ↓: (TA:) or light in body: (IDrd, TA:) and [the fem.] خَلَّةٌ, applied to a woman, light (Ḳ, TA) in body, lean, or spare: (TA:) the pl. of خَلٌّ is خُلُولٌ. (JK.) Also Fat: thus bearing two contr. significations: (Ḳ:) and soمَخْلُولٌ↓. (TA.) It is applied to a man and a camel. (TA.) Accord. to the Ḳ, it also signifies A [young camel such as is termed] فَصِيل: (TA:) but it means such as is lean, or emaciated: (TA:) and soمَخْلُولٌ↓, applied to a فصيل as an epithet, for a reason mentioned above, in an explanation of the phrase خَلَّ الفَصِيلَ. (Ṣ, TA.)

Also i. q. اِبْنُ مَخَاضٍ [i. e. A male camel in his second year]; (JK, Ḳ;) and soخَلَّةٌ↓; which is also applied to the female: (Aṣ, Ṣ, Ḳ:) and i. q. اِبْنُ لَبُونٍ [i. e. a male camel in, or entering upon, his third year]; and in like mannerخَلَّةٌ↓ is applied to the female; (JK;) or, as in the M, to a she-camel; (TA;) and, as some say, (JK,) a large she-camel: (JK, TA:) andاِبْنُ الخَلَّةِ↓ signifies the same as اِبْنُ اللَّبُونِ (T in art. بنى) or اِبْنُ مَخَاضٍ [or ابن المَخَاضِ]. (TA in that art.) You say,أَتَاهُمْ بِقُرْصٍ كَأَنَّهُ فِرْسِنُ خَلَّةٍ↓, (Ṣ, TA,) or كَأَنَّهُ خُفُّ خَلَّةٍ, (JK,) [They brought them a round cake of bread as though it were the foot of a camel in its second, or third, year,] meaning small. (JK. [In the TA, meaning سَمِينَة (i. e. fat); but this seems to be a mistranscription.])

A cautery. (TA.)

خَلَّةٌ A road between two roads. (TA.)

A hole, perforation, or bore, that penetrates, or passes through, a thing, and is small: or, in a general sense: (Ḳ:) or a gap, or breach, in a booth of reeds or canes. (T, TA.) [See also خَلَلٌ.]

[And hence,] The gap that is left by a person who has died: (Aṣ, T, Ṣ, TA:) or the place, of a man, that is left vacant after his death. (Ḳ.) One says, of him who has lost a person by death, اَللّٰهُمَّ ٱخْلُفْ عَلَى أَهْلِهِ بِخَيْرٍ وَٱسْدُدْ خَلَّتَهُ, i. e. [O God, supply to his family, with that which is good, the place of him whom they have lost,] and fill up the gap which he has left by his death. (Aṣ, T, Ṣ,* TA.)

And The interval, or intervening space, between the piercer, or thruster, and the pierced, or thrust: whence the saying, رَقَعَ خَلَّةَ الفَارِسِ, explained in art. رقع. (O and Ḳ and TA in that art.)

[Hence also,] Want, or a want: poverty; (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) need, straitness, or difficulty. (Lḥ, Ḳ.) One says, بِهِ خَلَّةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ He has pressing, or severe, need or straitness or difficulty. (Lḥ, TA.) And سَدَّ ٱللّٰهُ خَلَّتَهُ May God supply his want. (TA.) And it is said in a prov., الخَلَّةُ تَدْعُو إِلَى السَّلَّةِ Want invites to theft. (Ḳ,* TA.)

I. q. خَصْلَةٌ; (JK, Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ;) both signify A property, quality, nature, or disposition: and a habit, or custom: (KL, PṢ, TḲ:) [and app. also a practice, or an action:] in a man: (TA: [see the latter word:]) pl. خِلَالٌ. (JK, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ.) One says, فُلَانٌ خَلَّتُهُ حَسَنَةٌ [Such a one, his nature, or disposition, is good]. (IDrd, TA.) And hence, خَيْرُ خِلَالِ الصَّائِمِ السِّوَاكُ [The best of the habits, or customs, of the faster is the use of the tooth-stick]. (Mgh.)

See also خُلَّةٌ.

An isolated tract of sand, (Fr, Ḳ,) separate from other sands. (Fr, TA.)

And i. q. هَضْبَةٌ [which signifies An elevated tract of sand: but more commonly a hill; or a spreading mountain;, &c.]. (JK, TA.)

Wine, (Ḳ,) in a general sense: (TA:) or acid, or sour, wine: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or wine altered for the worse, (Ḳ, TA,) in flavour, (TA,) without acidity, or sourness: (Ḳ, TA:) pl. [or coll. gen. n.] خَلٌّ↓. (Ḳ.)

See also خَلٌّ, first sentence.

And see this last word near the end of the paragraph, in four places.

خُلَّةٌ an inf. n. [or rather quasi-inf. n.] of خَالَّهُ, q. v.: (JK:) True, or sincere, friendship, love, or affection; as alsoخُلُولَةٌ↓ andخُلَالَةٌ↓ andخَلَالَةٌ↓ andخِلَالَةٌ↓: (Ṣ:) or all these signify a particular true or sincere friendship, or love, or affection, in which is no unsoundness, or defect, and which may be chaste and may be vitious: (Ḳ: [in which all are said to be substs., except خُلَّةٌ, as though this were properly speaking an inf. n., though having a pl., as shown below:]) [and sometimes simply friendship: see an ex. in a verse cited voce مَرْحَبٌ, in art. رحب:] or خُلَّةٌ andخَلَّةٌ↓, (Mṣb,) orخِلٌّ↓ andخِلَّةٌ↓, each with kesr, (Ḳ,) signify true, or sincere, friendship, or love, or affection, (Mṣb, Ḳ,) and brotherly conduct: the last two as used in the phrases,إِنَهُ لَكَرِيمُ الخِلِّ↓ andالخِلَّةِ↓ [Verily he is generous in respect of true, or sincere, friendship,, &c.]: (Ḳ:) the pl. of خُلَّةٌ in the sense explained above is خِلَالٌ. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

See also خَلِيلٌ, in three places.

A kind of plants or herbage [or trees]; (JK, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) namely, the sweet kind thereof; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) not حَمْض: (JK:) or any pasture, or herbage, that is not حَمْض; all pasture, or herbage, consisting of حَمْض and خُلَّة, and حَمْض being such as has in it saltness [or sourness]: (TA:) the [kind of plant, or tree, called] عَرْفَج; and every tree that remains in winter: (JK:) accord. to Lḥ, it is [applied to certain kinds] of trees, &c.: accord. to IAạr, peculiarly of trees: but accord. to AʼObeyd, [shrubs, i. e.] not including any great trees: (TA:) and a certain thorny tree: also a place of growth, and a place in which is a collection, of [the plants, or trees, called] عَرْفَج: (Ḳ:) and any land not containing [the kind of plants, or herbage, or trees, called] حَمْض; (AḤn, Ḳ;) even though containing no plants, or herbage: (AḤn, TA:) the pl. is خُلَلٌ: (Ḳ:) one says أَرْضٌ خُلَّةٌ and أَرَضُونَ خُلَلٌ: ISh says that أَرْضٌ خَلَّةٌ and خُلَلُ الأَرْضِ mean land, and lands, in which is no حَمْض, sometimes containing [thorny trees such as are called] عِضَاه, and sometimes not containing such; and that خُلَّةٌ is also applied to land in which are no trees nor any herbage: (TA:) some say that خُلَّةٌ, as meaning the pasture, or herbage, which is the contrary of حَمْض, has for a pl. خِلَالٌ, and then, from خِلَال is formed the pl. أَخِلَّةٌ: and some say that this last means herbage that is cut (اُخْتُلّ↓ وَٱجْتُزّ [in which the latter verb seems to be an explicative adjunct to the former]) while green. (Ḥam p. 662, q. v.) They say that the خُلَّة is the bread of camels, and the حَمْض is their fruit, (JK, T, Sudot;, TA,) or their flesh-meat, (Ṣ, TA,) or their خَبِيص. (TA.)

Hence, by way of comparison, it is applied to ‡ Ease, or repose; freedom from trouble or inconvenience, and toil or fatigue; or tranquillity; and ampleness of circumstances: and حَمْض, to evil, and war: (T, TA:) and the former, to life: and the latter, to death. (Ḥam p. 315.)

Also Acid, or sour, leaven or ferment. (IAạr, TA.)

خِلَّةٌ: see 1, near the middle of the paragraph:

and see also خُلَالةٌ, in four places:

and خُلَّةٌ, first sentence, in two places:

and خَلِيلٌ, in two places.

Also The جَفْن [i. e. the scabbard, or the case,] of a sword, covered with leather: (Ḳ:) or a lining with which the جَفْن of a sword is covered, (Ṣ, Ḳ, and Ḥam pp. 330 et seq.,) variegated, or embellished, with gold, &c.; (Ṣ;) but the pl. is also used as meaning scabbards: (Ḥam p. 331:) and a thong that is fixed upon the outer side of the curved extremity of a bow: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) in the T it is explained as meaning the inner side of the thong of the جَفْن, which is seen from without, and is an ornament, or a decoration: (TA:) and any piece of skin that is variegated, or embellished: (M, Ḳ:) the pl. is خِلَلٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ, and Ḥam p. 330) and خِلَالٌ, and pl. pl. أَخِلَّةٌ, (Ḳ,) i. e. pl. of خِلَالٌ. (TA.)

خَلَلٌ An interstice, an interspace or intervening space, a break, a breach, a chink, or a gap, between two things; (JK, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) pl. خِلَالٌ: (JK, Ṣ, Mṣb:) and particularly the places, (Ḳ,) or interstices, (Ṣ,) of the clouds, from which the rain issues; as alsoخِلَالٌ↓; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) both occurring in this sense, accord. to different readings, in the Ḳur xxiv. 43 and xxx. 47: (Ṣ, TA:) the latter may be [grammatically] a sing. [syn. with the former], or it may be pl. of the former: (MF, TA:) andخِلَالُ↓ الدَّارِ signifies what is around the limits of the house; (JK, Ḳ;) or around the walls thereof; thus in the M; (TA;) and what is between the chambers thereof. (Ḳ.) You say, دَخَلْتُ بَيْنَ خَلَلِ القَوْمِ andخِلَالِهِمْ↓ [I entered amid the breaks, or interspaces, of the people]. (Ṣ, Mṣb.) And هُوَ خَلَلَهُمْ andخِلَالَهُمْ↓ (M, Ḳ) andخَلَالَهُمْ↓ (Ḳ [but in the CK these words are with damm to the second ل]) He is amid them. (M, Ḳ.) Andجُسْنَا خِلَالَ↓ بُيُوتِ الحّى, andخِلَالَ↓ دُورِ القَوْمِ, i. e. [We went, or went to and fro, or went round about, &c.,] amid the tents of the tribe, and in the midst of the houses of the people; like a phrase in the Ḳur xvii. 5. (TA.)

And [hence] Shakiness, looseness, laxness, or want of compactness, and disorder, or want of order, of a thing; (Mṣb;) unsoundness, or corruptness, (Ṣ, Mṣb,*) in an affair or a thing, (Ṣ,) or of a thing; (Mṣb;) [a flaw in a thing;] defect, imperfection, or deficiency; (Ḥam p. 300;) weakness, or infirmity, in an affair, (JK, Ḳ, TA,) as though some place thereof were left uncompact, or unsound, (TA,) and in war, (JK,) and in men: (JK, Ḳ:*) and ‡ unsettledness in an opinion. (Ḳ,* TA.)

الخَلَلُ The night. (JK, Ibn-ʼAbbád.)

خَلَالٌ [Dates in the state in which they are termed] بَلَحٌ, (JK, T, Ṣ, Ḳ,) in the dial. of the people of El-Basrah; (T, TA;) i. e. green dates: (JK:) [but see بَلَحٌ and بُسْرٌ:] n. un. with ة {خَلَالَةٌ}. (JK, TA.)

هُوَ خَلَالَهُمْ: see خَلَلٌ.

خُلَالٌ: see خُلَالَةٌ.

Also An accident that happens in anything sweet so as to change its flavour to acidity, or sourness. (Ḳ.)

خِلَالٌ A thing with which one perforates, or transpierces, a thing, (JK, Ḳ,) either of iron or of wood: (JK:) pl. أَخِلَّةٌ. (Ḳ.)

A wooden thing [or pin] (Ṣ, Mṣb,) with which one pins a garment, (T, Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) conjoining its two edges: (Mgh, Mṣb:) pl. as above: (Ṣ, Mṣb:) which also signifies the small pieces of wood with which one pins together the edges of the oblong pieces of cloth of a tent. (TA.)

[A skewer for flesh-meat.]

A wooden pin which is inserted into the tongue of a young camel, in order that he may not such: (Ḳ:) or which is fixed above the nose of a young camel, for that purpose. (TA in art. لهج.)

[A toothpick;] a thing (of wood, Ṣ, Mṣb) with which one extracts the remains of food between his teeth; (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) as alsoخِلَالَةٌ↓. (Ḥar p. 101.)

[A long thorn or prickle: such being often used as a pin and as a toothpick.]

See also خُلَالَةٌ.

And see خَلَلٌ, in six places.

خَلِيلٌ Perforated, or transpierced; likeمَخْلُولٌ↓. (Ḳ.)

See also خَلٌّ, in the latter half of the paragraph.

Poor; needy; in want; (JK, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) as alsoمُخِلٌّ↓, (so in some copies of the Ḳ and in the M,) orمُخَلٌّ↓, (so in other copies of the Ḳ,) andمُخْتَلٌّ↓ andأَخَلُّ↓ (Ḳ:) and أَخِلَّةٌ may be a pl. of خَلِيلٌ in this sense. (Ḥam p. 662.)

A friend; or a true, or sincere, friend; (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb;) as alsoخِلٌّ↓, andخُلَّةٌ↓, which is used alike as masc. and fem., because originally an inf. n., [or a quasi-inf. n., i. e. of 3, q. v.,] (Ṣ,) orخِلَّةٌ↓, [thus in the copies of the Ḳ, but what precedes it, though not immediately, seems to show that the author perhaps meant خُلَّةٌ,] used alike as masc. and fem. and sing. and pl.: (Ḳ:) or a special, or particular, friend or true or sincere friend; as alsoخِلٌّ↓ andخُلٌّ↓; or this latter is only used in conjunction with وُدٌّ, as when you say, كَانَ لِى وُدًّا وَخُلًّا [He was to me an an object of love and a friend, &c.]; (Ḳ;) or, as ISd says, خِلٌّ↓ is the more common, and is applied also to a female; (TA;) as is also خُلَّةٌ↓, (Ḳ,) andخِلَّةٌ↓: (TA:) خَلِيلٌ also signifies veracious; (Ḳ;) thus accord. to IAạr: (TA:) or a friend in whose friendship is no خَلَل [i. e. unsoundness, or defect, or imperfection]: (Zj, TA:) or one who is pure and sound in friendship, or love: (IDrd, Ḳ:) the pl. is أَخِلَّآءُ (Mṣb, Ḳ) and خُلَّانٌ (JK, Ḳ) and أَخِلَّةٌ: (Ḥam p. 662, and MA:) the fem. is خَلِيلَةٌ; (Ṣ, M, Ḳ;) of which the pl. is خَلِيلَاتٌ and خَلَائِلُ: (M, Ḳ:) the pl. ofخِلٌّ↓ orخُلٌّ↓ is أَخْلَالٌ: (Ḳ:) and the pl. ofخُلَّةٌ↓ is خِلَالٌ, (Ṣ,) mentioned before, see 3, second sentence. It is applied in the Ḳur iv. 124 to Abraham; who is called خَلِيلُ ٱللّٰه, (TA,) and الخَلِيلُ. (Ḳ.) And it is said that the pl. أَخِلَّةٌ means also Pastors; because they act to their beasts like أَخِلَّآء [or friends, &c.], in labouring to do good to them. (Ḥam p. 662.)

Also One who advises, or counsels, or acts, sincerely, honestly, or faithfully. (IAạr, TA.)

And الخَلِيلُ also signifies The heart. (IAạr, JK, Ḳ.)

And The liver. (JK, TA.)

And The nose. (JK, Ḳ.)

And The sword. (IAạr, TA.) [And] A sword of Saʼeed Ibn-Zeyd Ibn-ʼAmr Ibn-Nufeyl. (Ḳ.)

And The spear. (IAạr, TA.)

خُلَالَةٌ i. q. كُرَابَةٌ; (AḤn, JK;) i. e. The scattered dates that remain at the roots of the branches [after the racemes of fruit have been cut off]; (AḤn, TA;) the fresh ripe dates that are sought out in the interstices of the roots of the branches; as alsoخُلَالٌ↓. (Ḳ.)

Also What comes forth from the teeth when they are picked; (JK, Ṣ,* Mṣb;) as alsoخِلَلٌ↓ (JK, Ṣ) andخُلَلٌ↓ (Ṣ) andخِلَّةٌ↓: (JK:) orخِلَلٌ↓ andخِلَالٌ↓ and خُلَالَةٌ (Ḳ) andخِلَّةٌ↓ (Ṣ) andخَالٌّ↓ (TA) signify the remains of food between the teeth; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) and the sing. [of خِلَلٌ] is خِلَّةٌ↓ and [the n. un. of the same] خِلَلَةٌ↓. (Ḳ, TA. [In the CK, for خِلَلَةٌ is erroneously put خَلَّلَهُ.]) You say, فُلَانٌ يَأْكُلُ خُلَالَتَهُ andخَلَلَهُ↓ (JK, Ṣ) andخُلَلَهُ↓ (Ṣ) andخِلَّتَهُ↓ (JK) andخِلَلَتَهُ↓ (TA) Such a one eats what comes forth from his teeth when they are picked. (JK, Ṣ,* TA.)

See also خُلَّةٌ, first sentence.

خَلَّالٌ A seller of vinegar. (Ḳ,* TA.)

خُلِّىٌّ a rel. n. from خُلَّةٌ as meaning the “sweet kind of plants or herbage.” (Ṣ.) You say بَعِيرٌ خُلِّىٌّ, (Yaạḳoob, Ṣ,) and إِبِلٌ خُلِّيَّةٌ (Yaạḳoob, Ṣ, Ḳ) andمُخْلَّةٌ↓ andمُخْتَلَّةٌ↓, (Ḳ,) meaning [A camel, and camels,] pasturing upon خُلَّة. (Ḳ.) And hence the prov.,إِنَّكَ مُخْتَلٌّ↓ فَتَحَمَّضْ † [meaning Verily thou art disordered in temper, therefore sooth thyself; or] shift from one state, or condition, to another: accord. to IDrd, said to him who is threatening: (TA. [See also 5 in art. حمض:]) [or it may mean verily thou art weary of life, therefore submit to death: see Ḥam p. 315.] And the saying of El-ʼAjjáj,

*كَانُو مُخَلِّينَ↓ فَلَاقَوْا حَمْضَا *

[lit. They were pasturing upon خُلَّة, and they found حَمْض; meaning † they were seeking to do mischief, and found him who did them worse mischief]: applied to him who threatens, and finds one stronger than he. (TA. [See also حَمْضٌ.])

خَلْخَالٌ: see خَلٌّ, in the latter half of the paragraph.

رَمْلٌ خَلْخَالٌ Rough sand. (TA.)

Also, andحَلْخَلٌ↓, (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ,) which is a dial. var. of the former, or a contraction thereof, (Ṣ,) andخُلْخُلٌ↓, (JK, Ḳ,) A well-known ornament (Ḳ) of women; (Ṣ, Ḳ;*) i. e. an anklet: (KL:) [or a pair of anklets; for you say,] فِى سَاقَيْهَا خَلْخَالٌ [Upon her legs is a pair of anklets]: (TA in art. حجل:) pl. (of the first, Ṣ) خَلَاخِيلُ (Ṣ, TA) and [of the second and third] خَلَاخِلُ. (TA.)

خَالٌّ (Ḳ) andمُتَخَلْخِلٌ↓ (Mgh, Ḳ) [andمُخْتَلٌّ↓ all signify Having interstices, breaks, chinks, or the like:] uncompact, or incoherent: (Mgh, Ḳ:) the first and second applied in this sense to an army. (Ḳ.)

For the first, see also خَالٌ, in art. خيل.

And see خُلَالَةٌ.

أَخَلُّ More, and most, poor, or needy: (Ḳ, TA:) from أَخَلَّ إِلَيْهِ signifying “he wanted it,” or “needed it.” (TA.) Hence the phrase أَخَلُّ إِلَيْهِ [meaning More, or most, in need of him, or it]. (TA.)

See also خَلِيلٌ.

أَرْضٌ مَخَلَّةٌ, orمُخِلَّةٌ↓, (accord. to different copies of the Ṣ,) A land abounding with خُلَّة, not containing any حَمْض. (Ṣ.)

مُخَلْخَلٌ The part, of the leg, which is the place of the خَلْخَال [or anklet]; (JK, Ḳ;) i. e., of the leg of a woman. (TA.)

مُخْتَلٌّ: see خَالٌّ:

and see خَلٌّ, in the latter half of the paragraph:

and خَلِيلٌ.

Also Vehemently thirsty. (ISd, Ḳ.)

أَمْرٌ مُخْتَلٌّ An affair in a weak, or an unsound, state. (Ḳ.)

See also خُلِّىٌّ, in two places.