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خَافٍ خاف خافي : see خَفِىٌّ: ― -b2- and see also خَفًا. ― -b3- الخَافِى The jinn, or genii; (As, Lh, JK, S, K;) because they conceal themselves from the eyes [of men]; (TA;) as also ↓ الخَافِيَآءُ (JK, K) and ↓ اخَافِيَةُ : (K:) or this last signifies what conceals itself in the body, of the jinn, or genii: (Ibn-Menádhir, S:) the pl. (of the first, Lh, JK, [and of the second and third also accord. to analogy,]) is خَوَافٍ; (Lh, JK, K;) [and of the first, خَافُونَ also, like قَاضُونَ; for] the bare piece of ground amid herbage is said, in a trad., to be مُصَلَّى الخَافِينَ, i. e. [The praying-place] of the jinn, or genii. (TA.) The first (الخَافِى) also signifies Mankind; thus bearing two contr. [or rather opposite] meanings. (TA.) And one says, هُوَ ↓ مَا أَدْرِى أَىُّ خَافِيَةَ , (K and TA voce خَالِفَة, q. v.,) or ↓ خَافِيَةٍ , (CK ibid.,) I know not what one of mankind he is. (K ibid.) ― -b4- أَرْضٌ خَافِيَةٌ [and ↓ أَرْضُ خَافِيَةٍ , the latter word in the former case being an epithet, fem. of خَافٍ, and in the latter case a subst., or an epithet in which the quality of a subst is predominant,] A land in which are jinn, or genii. (K.) ― -b5- خَافِى الغُرَابِ: see the last sentence but one in the next paragraph.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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