Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

خَضِيبٌ

Root: خضب

Full Definition

خَضِيبٌ Anything dyed, tinged, or changed in colour; [generally, with hinnà;] as also مَخْضُوبٌ : the former is both masc. and fem.: and its pl. is خُضُبٌ. You say كَفٌّ خَضِيبٌ and خَاضِبٌ (TA voce ضَارِبٌ) [A hand dyed with hinnà]: and بَنَانٌ خَضِيبٌ and مَخْضُوبٌ and مُخَضَّبٌ [fingers, or fingers' ends, dyed with hinnà]; but the last of these has an intensive signification.
2 And hence, الكَفُّ الخَضِيبُ A certain star; the star β of Cassiopeia; [i. e.] the bright star of the constel-lation called ذَاتُ الكُرْسِىِّ; which star is [termed] the extended right hand of الثُّرَيَّا [or the Pleiades; corresponding to the star called الكَفُّ الجَذْمَآءُ]. (Kzw. [See أَجْذَمُ.])
3 And اِمْرَأَةٌ خَضِيبٌ [A woman having her hands, or feet, or hair, &c., dyed with hinnà or the like].


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