خَافِقٌ
Root: خفق
Full Definition
2 Applied to a man, Moving, or shaking, his head, or bending it [down, or nodding], when drowsy, or dozing.
3 [Hence, app.,] رَأَيْتُ فُلَانًا خَافِقَ العَيْنِ
4 أَيَّامُ الخَافِقَاتِ Certain days in which the stars [in great number] became scattered (تَنَاثَرَتْ [in the CK, erroneously, تَناصَرَتْ]), [causing a belief that the day of judgment was at hand, ] in the time of Abu-l-'Abbás and Aboo-Jaafar, the 'Abbásees.
5 الخَافِقَانِ is a term applied to The place of sunrise and the place of sunset, by the attribution of predominance to the latter; for الخَافِقُ, meaning the disappearing, is applied to the place of sunset: or the horizon (أُفُق) of the place of sunrise and that of the place of sunset; accord. to Lth and ISk, because the night and the day for the most part pass away ( , so in the T and S, but in the K, erroneously, يَخْتَلِفَانِ, TA) between them, or in them: or the two [opposite] extremities of the heaven and the earth: or the end of the heaven and earth: or two vacant spaces (هَوَاآنِ) next to the two [opposite] sides of the earth: and خَوَافِقُ السَّمَآءِ signifies The regions of the heaven from which issue the four [cardinal] winds. One says, مَابَيْنَ الخَافِقَيْنِ مِثْلُهُ There is not between the place of sunrise and the place of sunset the like of him. And أَلْحَقَهُ ٱللّٰهُ بِالخَافِقِ and بِالخَوَافِقِ [May God remove him to the place of sunset and to the four cardinal regions of the heaven or earth].
6 خَافِقٌ also signifies A place void of, or unoccupied by, any one to cheer by his presence.
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