This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
خَسِيفٌ خسيف (tropical:) A spring, or source, (عَيْنٌ, [shown in the TA to have this meaning here,]) sinking, or going away [into the earth]; as also ↓ خَاسِفٌ ; (K, TA;) in like manner without ة. (TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A well (بِئْرٌ) dug in stones, so that it yields an abundant and unceasing flow of water; (S, K;) as also خَسِيفَةٌ and ↓ خَسُوفٌ and ↓ مَخْسُوفَةٌ ; (K;) or, as some say, خَسِيفٌ only: (TA:) or this signifies a well pierced through its mountain [or rock] to the water beneath so that it never becomes exhausted; (JK, TA;) as also ↓ مَخْسُوفَةٌ : (JK:) or a well dug so as to reach an unceasing, or a copious, source of water: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَخْسِفَةٌ (JK, K) and [of mult.] خُسُفٌ. (S, K.) ― -b3- (tropical:) A she-camel that yields abundant milk, but soon stops [its flow] in winter. (K, TA.) [And] with ة, (assumed tropical:) A she-camel that yields abundant milk. (JK.) ― -b4- See also خَسْفٌ. ― -b5- عَيْنٌ خَسِيفَةٌ (Mgh, K, TA) and ↓ خَاسِفَةٌ (JK, Mgh) (tropical:) An eye put out, or blinded; (JK, K, TA;) of which the black, or part surrounded by the white, has disappeared in the head. (JK, Mgh, TA.) -A2- الخَسِيفَان, thus correctly written, as in the L, and so in the Nawádir of Aboo-'Amr Esh-Sheybánee, and in the Tedhkireh of Aboo-'Alee El-Hejeree, who asserts that the ن is the ن of the dual, and in one dial. with damm, [so that the word is written الخَسِيفَانِ and الخَسِيفَانُ,] and on whose authority is mentioned the saying هُمَا خَلِيلَانُ, with damm to the ن, [so that each is a dual in form, though not in signification,] but in the O and the K ↓ الخَيْسَفَانُ , [in the CK الخِيسَفَانُ,] with fet-h to the س, and [↓ الخَيْسُفَانُ ,] with damm to that letter, (TA,) Bad dates: (O, K:) so in the Nawádir and Tedhkireh above mentioned: (TA:) or a palm-tree that bears a small quantity of fruit, and of which the unripe dates turn bad. (O, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
The U.S. Department of Education, The Max Planck Society provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
