أَخْيَفُ
Root: خيف
Full Definition
أَخْيَفُ
, applied to a horse, and a camel, and any animal, Having one of the eyes blue and the other black: fem. خَيْفَآءُ.
2 And, applied to a camel, Wide in the sheath of the penis.
3 And the fem., applied to a she-camel, Wide in the udder, or in the skin thereof, or only when it is empty of milk, and flaccid: pl. خَيْفَاوَاتٌ; which is extr., for a pl. like this belongs [regularly] only to a subst., and to an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates.
4 The pl. of أَخْيَفُ is خِيفٌ and خُوفٌ, (K, TA, [the latter erroneously written in the CK خَوْفٌ,]) with kesr and damm.
2 And, applied to a camel, Wide in the sheath of the penis.
3 And the fem., applied to a she-camel, Wide in the udder, or in the skin thereof, or only when it is empty of milk, and flaccid: pl. خَيْفَاوَاتٌ; which is extr., for a pl. like this belongs [regularly] only to a subst., and to an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates.
4 The pl. of أَخْيَفُ is خِيفٌ and خُوفٌ, (K, TA, [the latter erroneously written in the CK خَوْفٌ,]) with kesr and damm.
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