This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
خَالِصٌ خالص Clear; pure; sheer; free from admixture; unmingled; unmixed; genuine: (B, TA:) clear, or pure, applied to any colour: (Lh, TA:) (tropical:) white; as also ↓ خُلَيْصٌ ; [which latter appears to me doubtful, though I know not why Freytag has substituted for this, or for the former word, خَلْصٌ;] both applied to anything. (K, TA.) You say, ثَوْبٌ خَالِصٌ (tropical:) A garment, or piece of cloth, of a clear, or pure, white: and قَبَآءٌ أَزْرَقُ خَالِصُ البِطَانَةِ (tropical:) A garment of the kind called قباء blue with a white lining. (A.) ― -b2- [Also (assumed tropical:) Pure, or sincere, love, religion, &c.] ― -b3- See also خُلَاصَة, near the end of the paragraph.
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.
