خَصَاصَةٌ
Root: خص
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خَصَاصَةٌ
An interstice, interval, or intervening space or opening; as also
خَصَاصٌ [which is commonly used as a coll. gen. n.] and
خَصَاصَآءُ : or an interstice, &c., in the
ثَغْر [app. meaning the front teeth]; as also ↓ the second of these words: or the first and ↓ second, or ↓ all, any interstice, &c., or hole or perforation, in a door, and sieve, and [veil of the kind called] بُرْقُع, and the like, such as a cloud, and a strainer, &c.: [a crevice, cranny, chink, or fissure:] or the first, or ↓ all, a small hole or perforation: or the first has this signification as well as the signification first mentioned: or the ↓ second, the like of a
كَوَّة [or mural aperture] in a [structure of the kind called] قُبَّة, or the like, when as wide as the face; or, accord. to some, whether wide or narrow: and the same, interstices, intervals, or intervening spaces or openings, in a خُصّ; or narrow interstices, &c., therein: and the same, or ↓ all, the intervening spaces between the three stones upon which a cooking-pot is placed; and between the fingers: and the first, the intervening spaces between the feathers of an arrow: pl. [of the first,] خَصَاصَاتٌ. You say of the moon, بَدَا مِنْ خَصَاصَةِ الغَيْمِ [It appeared from the gap of the cloud, or clouds].
2 Also A cloud itself; or clouds; syn. غَيْمٌ.
def.2 Also the first, and ↓ second, and ↓ third,
2 Also the first,
2 Also A cloud itself; or clouds; syn. غَيْمٌ.
def.2 Also the first, and ↓ second, and ↓ third,
2 Also the first,
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