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خَرُوفٌ

Root: خرف

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خَرُوفٌ A lamb; syn. حَمَلٌ [q. v.]: or the male young one of the sheep-kind: or such as has pastured, and become strong: younger than the جَذَع: so called because it depastures from this place and this: fem. with ة: pl. أَخْرِفَةٌ and خِرْفَانٌ. The latter pl. is sometimes used as meaning Young and ignorant persons; like as كِبَاشٌ is used as meaning aged and learned persons. And hence the prov., كَٱلْخَرُوفِ أَيْنَمَا ٱتَّكَأَ عَلَى صُوفٍ [Like the lamb: wherever he reclines, he reclines upon wool]: (JK, TA: but in the latter, اتّكى:) applied to him who leads a soft and delicate life.
2 Also, A colt; the male offspring of a mare; when he has attained the age of six months, or seven months; a meaning assigned to it by As, in the “ Book of the Horse; ” but unknown to Abu-l-Ghowth: or, until a year old: it is said by some to be applied to a horse: in the L it is said that the خروف of horses is such as is brought forth in the [season called] خَرِيف: but Khálid Ibn-Jebeleh says that it means such as pastures upon the [herbage of the season called] خَرِيف: and Suh thinks that it is an epithet applied to a horse, and any beast, as meaning that depastures the trees and herbage.


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