خَافِيَةٌ
Root: خفى
Full Definition
2 See also خَفًا.
3 And see خَافٍ, in four places.
4 Also One, i. e. a single feather, of the feathers called الخَوَافِى: الخَوَافِى signifies the feathers below the ten that are in the fore part of the wing: or certain feathers that are concealed when the bird contracts its wing: or the four feathers that are [next] after those called المَنَاكِب, and next before those called الأَبَاهِر: (S in art. بهر, and L in art. نكب:) or seven feathers in the wing, after the seven foremost: but the people [generally] mention them as four: or they are the small feathers in the wing of a bird. خَنْجَرٌ مِثْلُ خَافِيَةِ النَّسْرِ [A dagger like the خافية of the vulture], occurring in a trad., means a small خنجر. One says also خَافِيَةُ الغُرَابِ [The خافية of the crow]: and the pl. is [sometimes expressed by using the coll. gen. n., saying] الغُرَابِ.
5 الخَوَافِى also signifies The palm-branches [next] below the قِلَبَة [which latter are the branches that grow forth from the heart of the tree]: thus called in the dial. of Nejd: in the dial. of El-Hijáz called العَوَاهِنُ.
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