خَلْوَةٌ

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خَلْوَةٌ said by some to be an Verbal.Noun: [see خَلَا بِهِ &c. in the first paragraph of this art.:] by others said to be a simple subst.; meaning Loneliness; solitude; lonesomeness; solitariness; desolateness; syn. وَحْشَةٌ. (S and K in art. وحش.) [Hence, app.,] رَجُلٌ سَهْلُ الخَلْوَةِ [A man easy in private conference]. (Msb in art. سلس. [See also a phrase in the latter part of the next paragraph.])
2 Also An empty, a vacant, a void, or an unoccupied, place. (KL. [See also خَلَآءٌ.]) [In the present day, it is often applied to A closet to which one retires for privacy; and particularly to a cell for religious retirement: and is vulgarly pronounced خِلْوَة.] You say, اِجْتَمَعَ مَعَهُ فِى خَلْوَةٍ or اجتمع بِهِ فى خلوة [He had a meeting, or an interview, with him in a vacant place, or a place unoccupied by others, i. e., in a private place].

def.2 Also Each of the two sharp sides or edges of an arrow-head or of a spear-head: both together are called the خَلْوَتَانِ:

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