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الخَطَّافُ الخطاف خطاف [lit. He that is wont to seize, &c.: and particularly (assumed tropical:) 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 (assumed tropical:) the Devil, or Satan: (S, TA:) or, as some say, it is in this instance ↓ الخُطَّافُ , as pl. of خَاطِفٌ, [and therefore meaning (assumed tropical:) the devils,] or as being likened to the hooked iron called خُطَّاف. (TA.) ― -b2- أَبُو الخَطَّافِ a surname of The حِدَأَة [or kite]. (TA in art. حدأ.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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