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خَبِيتٌ خبيت A thing that is contemptible, or despicable; (K, TA;) bad, corrupt, abominable, vile, base, or disapproved; [&c.;] (TA;) and [thus] i. q. خَبِيثٌ. (As, K.) The Jew of Kheyber says, “ يَنْفَعُ الطَّيِّبُ القَلِيلُ مِنَ الرِّزْ
قِ وَلَا يَنْفَعُ الكَثِيرُ الخَبِيتُ
” [The lawful, but small, supply of the means of subsistence is beneficial, but the large and unlawful is not beneficial]. (TA.) Kh asked As respecting الخبيت in this verse; and the latter replied that the poet meant الخَبِيث; the former word being of the dial. of Kheyber: but Kh rejoined, “ If so, the poet would have said الكتير: it behooves you only to say that the people of Kheyber change ث into ت in some words: ” AM thinks that الخبيت in this verse is a mistranscription for الخَتِيت, which means the thing that is “ contemptible and bad, ” and is syn. with الخَسِيس. (TA.) ― -b2- It is also applied to a man; meaning as above; or Bad, corrupt, vitious, or depraved. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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