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الخَافِضُ الخافض خافض , one of the names of God called الأَسْمَآءُ الحُسْنَى, The Abaser of the proud, haughty, or insolent: (K:) the Abaser of everything which He desireth to abase. (TA.) ― -b2- خَافِضَةٌ رَافِعَةٌ in the Kur [lvi. 3, applied to the resurrection, (القِيَامَة,)] means Abasing certain persons to Hell: exalting certain persons to Paradise: (O, K:) or abasing the disobedient: exalting the obedient. (Zj.) ― -b3- A rájiz [of the tribe of Asad (S in arts. شول and صن）] says, censuring a collector of the poor-rate, “ خَافِضَ سِنٍّ وَمُشِيلًا سِنَّا
أَإِِبِلِى تَأْكُلُهَا مُصِنَّا
” [Dost thou devour my camels, elevating the nose with pride, lowering age in one case and raising age in another?]: or, accord. to IAar, this was a man addressing his wife, and censuring her father, who had required as her dowry twenty camels, all to be بَنَات لَبُون, and demanded them of him; and when he saw among his camels a fat حِقَّة, he said “ This is a بِنْت لَبُون, ” that he might take her; and when he saw a lean بنت لبون, he said “ This is a بِنْت مَخَاض, ” that he might leave her. (S.) ― -b4- هُوَ خَافِضُ الجَنَاحِ (tropical:) He is gentle, easy to deal with, compliant, or obsequious: (A, TA:) (tropical:) he is grave, staid, sedate, or calm; (TA;) and so هُوَخَافِضُ الطَّيْرِ. (K, TA.) ― -b5- اِمْرَأَةٌ خَافِضَةُ الصَّوْتِ, and الصَّوْتِ ↓ خَفِيضَةُ , (assumed tropical:) A woman low, soft, or gentle, in voice: (TA:) not clamorous and foul-tongued. (T, TA.) ― -b6- عَيْشٌ خَافِضٌ: see خَفْضٌ, in two places. ― -b7- أَرْضٌ خَافِضَةُ السُّقْيَا (assumed tropical:) Land easy of irrigation. (K.) The contr. is termed رَافِعَةُ السقيا. (TA.) ― -b8- بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَكَ لَيْلَةٌ خَافِضَةٌ (tropical:) Between me and thee is a night of easy journeying. (S, TA.) ― -b9- قَوْمٌ خَافِضُونَ (assumed tropical:) A people, or company of men, remaining at a water: when going in search of pasture and of the places where rain has fallen, they are not so called. (IAar.) -A2- خَافِضَةٌ A woman who circumcises girls. (S, A, Msb, K. *) And خَافِضٌ is sometimes applied to A man who circumcises boys. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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