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خَالِقٌ خالق [act. part. n. of خَلَقَ:] A worker in leather and the like; (K, TA;) because he measures first, and then cuts. (TA.) To خَالِقَات, meaning Women working in leather, as engaged in dividing a hide (أَدِيم), El-Kumeyt likens genealogists. (TA.) ― -b2- الخَالِقُ, as an epithet applied to God, (K, Msb, TA,) properly, He who brings into existence according to the proper measure, or proportion, or adaptation; (TA;) [and hence, the Creator; or] the Originator, not after the similitude of anything pre-existing: (K:) or He who hath brought into existence all things after they had not been in existence: (Az, TA:) and ↓ الخَلَّاقُ signifies the same; (Msb, * TA;) [i. e. the Creator of all things; or, as an intensive epithet, the Great Creator;] or the Creator of many creatures: (Ksh and Bd and Jel, in xxxvi. 81:) Az says that this epithet, with the article ال, may not be applied to any but God. (Msb.) Accord. to IAmb, تَبَارَكَ ا@للّٰهُ أَحْسَنُ الخَالِقِينَ means احسن المُقَدَّرِينَ [i. e. Blessed be God, the Best of those who make things according to their proper measures, or proportions, or adaptations]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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