خَصْلَةٌ
Root: خصل
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خَصْلَةٌ
i. q.
خَلَّةٌ: i. e. A property, quality, nature, or disposition: and a habit, or custom: [and a practice, or an action: it is used in these various senses in different trads.: in one trad., avarice is termed a خَصْلَة; and so is evilness of nature: in another, fasting, and praying: in another, the inflicting of castigation, and the executing of retaliation, in a mosque:] it signifies an excellent quality or the like; and a low, base, or mean, quality or the like; in a man: or its predominant application is to an excellent quality or the like: so in the M: [it is said that] it is used only in commendation; whereas خَلَّةٌ is used in relation to good and evil: [but this is a mistake, as I have shown above:] accord. to Az, it signifies the states, or conditions, of things or affairs: [or this is a signification of the pl.:] the pl. is خِصَالٌ and خَصَلَاتٌ; [and
is a pl. pl., i. e. pl. of خِصَالٌ, with which it is explained in the KL as syn.: see an ex. in a verse cited voce دَفِئٌ.]
def.2 A hitting of the target; in shooting: or, as also خَصْلٌ , in a shooting-match, it is [a shot] in the case in which the arrow goes close by the target: thus accord. to Lth, who says that the former explanation is erroneous; [as appears also from the assertion that] what are termed خَصْلَتَانِ, in a shooting-match, are reckoned as equivalent to a shot that goes right to the target.
2 And accord. to Sgh, A single act of overcoming in a shooting-match.
def.3 Also, and خُصْلَةٌ , A raceme, or bunch, of grapes or the like; syn. عُنْقُودٌ.
2 And A stick, branch, or twig, (عُودٌ,) in which are thorns.
3 And خَصْلَةٌ and خَصَلَةٌ , or this latter only, The extremity of a fresh, pliant, soft, or tender, twig, or rod: and a soft and tender twig or rod, of the [species of mimosa called] عُرْفُط: and خَصْلٌ [of which خَصْلَةٌ is the n. un.] signifies the slender extremities and branches of the عُرْفُط: and خُصْلَةٌ , a soft and tender branch of any tree: and [its pl.] خُصَلٌ, the pendent extremities of trees.
def.2 A hitting of the target; in shooting: or, as also خَصْلٌ , in a shooting-match, it is [a shot] in the case in which the arrow goes close by the target: thus accord. to Lth, who says that the former explanation is erroneous; [as appears also from the assertion that] what are termed خَصْلَتَانِ, in a shooting-match, are reckoned as equivalent to a shot that goes right to the target.
2 And accord. to Sgh, A single act of overcoming in a shooting-match.
def.3 Also, and خُصْلَةٌ , A raceme, or bunch, of grapes or the like; syn. عُنْقُودٌ.
2 And A stick, branch, or twig, (عُودٌ,) in which are thorns.
3 And خَصْلَةٌ and خَصَلَةٌ , or this latter only, The extremity of a fresh, pliant, soft, or tender, twig, or rod: and a soft and tender twig or rod, of the [species of mimosa called] عُرْفُط: and خَصْلٌ [of which خَصْلَةٌ is the n. un.] signifies the slender extremities and branches of the عُرْفُط: and خُصْلَةٌ , a soft and tender branch of any tree: and [its pl.] خُصَلٌ, the pendent extremities of trees.
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