الخَافِضُ
Root: خفض
Full Definition
2 خَافِضَةٌ رَافِعَةٌ in the Kur [lvi. 3, applied to the resurrection, (القِيَامَة,)] means Abasing certain persons to Hell: exalting certain persons to Paradise: or abasing the disobedient: exalting the obedient.
3 A rájiz [of the tribe of Asad (S in arts. شول and صن)] says, censuring a collector of the poor-rate,
[Dost thou devour my camels, elevating the nose with pride, lowering age in one case and raising age in another?]: or, accord. to IAar, this was a man addressing his wife, and censuring her father, who had required as her dowry twenty camels, all to be بَنَات لَبُون, and demanded them of him; and when he saw among his camels a fat حِقَّة, he said “ This is a بِنْت لَبُون, ” that he might take her; and when he saw a lean بنت لبون, he said “ This is a بِنْت مَخَاض, ” that he might leave her.خَافِضَ سِنٍّ وَمُشِيلًا سِنَّا أَإِبِلِى تَأْكُلُهَا مُصِنَّا
4 هُوَ خَافِضُ الجَنَاحِ
5 اِمْرَأَةٌ خَافِضَةُ الصَّوْتِ, and الصَّوْتِ,
6 عَيْشٌ خَافِضٌ: see خَفْضٌ, in two places.
7 أَرْضٌ خَافِضَةُ السُّقْيَا
8 بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَكَ لَيْلَةٌ خَافِضَةٌ
9 قَوْمٌ خَافِضُونَ
def.2 خَافِضَةٌ A woman who circumcises girls. And خَافِضٌ is sometimes applied to A man who circumcises boys.
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