خَشَفَ
Root: خشف
Form: 1
Full Definition
[When the asterism of the Pleiades culminates in winter, at the time when the dog whines by reason of the cold, and the snow causes one to hear a slight sound in walking upon it]: or, accord. to IB, the right reading is, بِسُحْرَةٍ [a little before daybreak, or in the last third of the night]: حين is here mansoob because على is made to be redundant, and because it is prefixed to a verbal proposition: this is the more approved way in a case of this kind, when the verb commencing the proposition is a pret.; but some say على حِينِ.إِذَا كَبَّدَ النَّجْمُ السَّمَآءَ بِشَتْوَةٍ عَلَىحِينَ هَرَّ الكَلْبُ والثَّلْجُ خَاشِفُ
2 خَشَفَ said of water, It froze.
3 Said of cold, It was, or became, intense.
4 خَشَفَ ِى السَّيْرِ, Verbal.Noun خَشَفَانٌ, He hastened, made haste, or sped, [app. so as to cause a slight sound to be heard,] in going, journeying, or pace. And مَرَّ يَخْشِفُ He passed along hastening.
5 خَشَفَ, Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun خُشُوفٌ and خَشَفَانٌ, He went away in, or into, the land, or country. And خَشَفَ فُلَانٌ Such a one journeyed away, went away, or departed, or became hidden or concealed, syn. تَغَيَّبَ, in the land, or country.
6 خَشَفَ فِى الشَّىْءِ (Present.T ـِ TA,) He entered into the thing; as also .
7 خَشَفَ, Verbal.Noun خَشَفَانٌ, He went, or travelled, by night.
8 And He was bold, or daring, in night-journeying: or he went about, or round about, by night; and journeyed much by night. And خَشَفَ بِالقَوْمِ, Present.T ـِ said of a guide of the way, He went about, or round about, by night, and hastened, or sped, with the party: or خَشَفَ بِهِمْ, Verbal.Noun خَشَافَةٌ, he acted with a penetrative energy, or with sharpness, vigorousness, and effectiveness, with them [in conducting them]; as also خشّف , Verbal.Noun تَخْشِيفٌ.
9 خَشَفَتْ بِوَلَدِهَا She cast forth her child [from the womb]. And خُشِفَ بِهِ He, or it, was cast, or thrown; as also خُفِشَ به, and حُفِشَ به.
def.2 خَشَفَ رَأْسَهُ بِالحَجَرِ He broke his head with the stone.
Lane's Lexicon — The most scholarly Arabic-English dictionary available
The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor. A work of such unique greatness that to this day it remains supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography.
✓ Full text search • ✓ Root-based navigation
✓ Advanced filters • ✓ Mobile access
Trusted by 1000+ researchers worldwide
Featured on Fons Vitae • Used by universities globally