خَاشِعٌ

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خَاشِعٌ Lowly, humble, or submissive, and still: [or so in the voice and in the eyes: ] pl. خَاشِعُونَ and خُشَّعٌ; the latter also signifying men lowering, humbling, or abasing, themselves: or constraining themselves to be, or to become, lowly, humble, or submissive; or to be so, or to become so, in voice, or in the eyes: or casting their eyes towards the ground, and lowering their voices. Hence, in the Kur [lxviii. 43, and lxx. 44], accord. to different readings, خَاشِعَةً أَبْصَارُهُمْ and خَاشِعًا أَبْصَارُهُمْ [Having their eyes cast down]: the accus. case being used as denotative of state.
2 Bowing; or bending down the head and body.
3 Fearing.
4 A camel's foot (خُفٌّ) cleaving to the ground.
5 A wall that has cracked, and given notice of its falling, and [then] become even with the ground.
6 A herb dried up, and falling down upon the ground.
7 Applied to a place, and, with ة, to a بَلْدَة [or portion of country], Overspread with dust, [in the CK المُعَنْبَرُ is erroneously put for المُغَبَّرُ,] and having in it no place of alighting, or of abiding: and to land (أَرْضٌ), meaning of which the wind raises the surface, by reason of its softness, so as to efface its traces, or tracks: or in this case it is with ة, as in the Kur xli. 39, and means altered (مُتَغَيِّرَة [probably a mistranscription for مُتَغَبِّرَة overspread with dust]), and having its herbage broken in pieces: or dried up, and containing no herbage: or containing no green herbage: or low, or depressed, and still: and, without ة, applied to a place, to which one finds not his way: pl. خُشَّعٌ.

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