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ذُو الخَلَصَةِ ذ , (S, K,) and ذو الخُلُصَةِ, (Hishám, K,) and ذو الخَلْصَةِ, accord. to IDrd, and some write it ذو الخَلُصَةِ, but the first is the form commonly obtaining with the relaters of trads., (TA,) A certain temple, (S, K,) called كَعْبَةُ اليَمَامَةِ, (S,) or الكَعْبَةُ اليَمَانِيَّةُ, (El-Háfidh Ibn-Hajar, K,) and also الكَعْبَةُ الشَّامِيَّةُ, because its door faced Syria, (TA,) belonging to the tribe of Khath'am, (S, K,) and Dows and Bejeeleh and others, (TA,) in which was an idol called الخَلَصَةُ, (S, K,) which was demolished (S, TA) by command of Mohammad: (TA:) or ذُو الخَلَصَةِ was the idol itself, as some say; but, says IAth, this requires consideration, because [it is asserted that] ذو is not prefixed to any but generic names: (TA: [but see ذُو:]) or the temple was so called because it was the place of growth of a tree of a kind called ↓ خَلَص . (K, * TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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