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خَطْوَةٌ خط خطا خطى خطو خطوه خطوة A step, or pace, as meaning a single act of stepping or pacing or walking: (JK, S, K, Msb:) pl. [of pauc.] خَطَوَاتٌ (S, Msb, K) and [of mult.] خِطَآءٌ. (S.) Imra-el-Keys says, “ لَهَا وَثَبَاتٌ كَوَثْبِ الشِّبَآءِ
فَوَادٍ خِطَآءٌ وَوَادٍ مَطِرْ
” [She has bounds like the bounding of gazelles; and a valley is stepped over by her with leisurely steps, and a valley is trampled over by her rapidly as though it were rained upon]: (S:) i. e., one time she steps, and refrains from running; and one time she runs with a running resembling rain: but AO relates it otherwise, saying, فَوَادٍ خَطِيطٌ [lit. and a valley is not rained upon]: and some substitute كَصَوْبِ الخَرِيفِ [like the pouring rain of the autumn]. (IB, TA.) [See also what next follows.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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