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خَفْضٌ خفض : [see خَفَضَ, (of which it is the inf. n.,) throughout. ― -b2- ] A state of abatement, or remissness, or the like: (A, TA:) (assumed tropical:) ease; repose; freedom from trouble or inconvenience, and toil or fatigue; tranquillity; quietness; quietude; stillness; syn. دَعَةٌ; (S, A, K;) and رَاحَةٌ; (Msb;) and سُكُونٌ; (TA;) of life: (Msb:) or ampleness of the circumstances of life; (El-Marzookee, Msb;) plentifulness and pleasantness thereof: (El-Marzookee:) softness, delicateness, or easiness: (A, TA:) pleasant life: (L:) and [in like manner] ↓ خَفِيضَةٌ , softness, delicateness, or easiness, of life; and ampleness of the circumstances thereof: (TA:) and the former, (assumed tropical:) gentleness and easiness of voice. (TA.) You say, هُمْ فِى خَفْضٍ مِنَ العَيْشِ (assumed tropical:) They are in an easy, or a tranquil, [or a plentiful and pleasant, or a soft or delicate,] state of life. (S.) [This phrase is said in the A to be tropical; but why, I do not see; since خَفْضٌ in the sense of دَعَةٌ is proper accord. to the same authority.] And هُوَ فِى خَفْضِ العَيْشِ (assumed tropical:) He is in an ample, and an easy, or a tranquil, state of life. (Msb.) And a poet says, “ لَا يَمْنَعَنَّكَ خَفْضَ العَيْشِ فِىدَعَةٍ
نُزُوعُ نَفْسٍ إِِلَى أَهْلٍ وَأَوْطَانِ
تَلْقَى بِكُلِّ بِلَادٍ إِِنْ حَلَلْتَ بِهَا
أَهْلًا بِأَهْلٍ وَجِيرَانًا بِجِيرَانِ
” (Ham p. 137, and Sgh;) i. e. (assumed tropical:) [Let not yearning of soul for family and homes prevent thee from enjoying] ampleness of the circumstances of life, or plentifulness and pleasantness thereof, in ease and tranquillity: [thou wilt find in every country, if thou take up thine abode in it, a family for a family, and neighbours for neighbours:] (ElMarzookee, MF:) another reading, which is preferable, though each is allowable, is نِزَاعُ in the place of نُزُوعُ. (Ham ubi suprà.) ― -b3- [It is also used as an epithet; app. for ذُو خفْضٍ.] You say, عَيْشٌ خَفْضٌ, (JK, TA,) and ↓ خَافِضٌ , (S, A, K,) and ↓ خَفِيضٌ , and ↓ مَخْفُوضٌ , (TA,) (assumed tropical:) An easy, or a tranquil, (JK, S, K, TA,) and plentiful, (JK, TA,) and soft, or delicate, (TA,) life: (JK, S, &c.:) and ↓ مَخْفِضٌ signifies the same as خَفْضٌ. (TA: there mentioned in the same place as here.) [It is said in the A, that عيش ↓ خافض is like عِيشَةٌ رَاضِيَةٌ, (meaning that it is for عَيْشٌ مَخْفُوضٌ,) and that it is tropical.] ― -b4- Also (tropical:) A gentle pace; contr. of رَفْعٌ; (S, A, * K;) and so ↓ مَخْفُوضٌ ; (S, * A;) contr. of مَرْفُوعٌ. (A, TA.) [See خَفَضَتِ الإِِبِلُ.] ― -b5- Also Low, or depressed, land: (TA:) and [in like manner] ↓ خَافِضَةٌ a low, or depressed, tract (تَلْعَةٌ مُطْمَئِنَّةٌ) of land: (ISh, K:) رَافِعَةٌ signifying [the contr., i. e.] a hard and elevated tract of land. (ISh.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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