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خَبْءٌ خبء (S, Msb, K) and ↓ خِبْءٌ (TA) and ↓ خُبْأَةٌ , of the measure فُعْلَةٌ from الخبأ [or rather الخَبْءُ], like غُرْفَةٌ and قُبْضَةٌ from الغَرْفُ and القَبْضُ, (Har p. 426,) and ↓ خَبِىْءٌ (S, K) and ↓ خَبِيْئَةٌ , (K,) of which last the pl. is خَبَايَا, (TA,) A thing that is hidden, or concealed, (S, * Msb, K,) and absent, or unseen. (K.) [Hence,] خَبْءُ السَّمَآءِ The rain. (Th, S, K.) And خَبْءُ الأَرْضِ The plants, or herbage. (S, K.) And الأَرْضِ ↓ خَبَايَا The seed which the sower has hidden in the earth: or what God has hidden in the mines of the earth. (TA, from a trad.) الَّذِى يُخْرِجُ الخَبْءَ فِى السَّمٰوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ, in the Kur [xxvii. 25], is held by Az to mean Who knoweth what is unseen in the heavens and the earth; agreeably with an explanation of الخَبْءُ by Fr. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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