خَلَصَ

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خَلَصَI , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun خُلُوصٌ and خَلَاصٌ and خَالِصَةٌ, or the second and third of these are simple substs. [used as inf. ns., i. e., quasi-inf. ns.]; and خَلُصَ also; but the former is that which is commonly known; It was, or became, خَالِص, which signifies [here] clear, pure, sheer, free from admixture, unmingled, unmixed, or genuine; and white. You say, خَلَصَ انمَآءُ مِنَ الكَدَرِ The water became clear from turbidness. And خَلَصَ الزُّبْدُ مِنَ الثُّفْلِ [The butter became clear from the dregs, or sediment,] in being cooked.
2 خَلَصَ مِنَ الوَرْطَةِ, or التَّلَفِ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun خَلَاصٌ and خُلُوصٌ and مَخْلَصٌ, He became safe, or secure, or free, from embarrassment or difficulty, or from destruction, like as a thing becomes clear from its turbidness. [See also 5.]
3 خَلَصَ مِنَ القَوْمِ He withdrew, retired, or went away or apart, from the people, or company of men. It is said in the Kur [xii. 80], خَلَصُوا نَجِيًّا They retired, conferring privately together.
4 خَلَصَ إِلَيْهِ, and بِهِ Verbal.Noun خُلُوصٌ, He, or it, came to, or reached, him: he came to, reached, or arrived at, it; namely, a place.
5 Also خَلَصُوا إِلَيْهِ They came to him and referred to him their cause, or suit, for judgment. (T and L in art. نفذ.)

def.2 خَلَصَ, Verbal.Noun خَلَاصٌ and خُلُوصٌ; or خلّص , Verbal.Noun تَخْلِيصٌ; but the former is that which is found in the correct lexicons; He took the خُلَاصَة [q. v.] of, or from, clarified butter; and , Verbal.Noun إِخْلَاصٌ, signifies the same. [See also this last below.]

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