خَلَى

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خَلَىI , Present.T يَخْلِى, Verbal.Noun خَلْىٌ; and ; He cut the herbage called خَلًى: or he plucked it up. Hence, in a trad., respecting the declaration of the sacredness of Mekkeh, لَا خَلَاهَا, i. e. [Its fresh herbage] shall not be cut.
2 خَلَى الدَّابَّةَ, or المَاشِيَةَ, Present.T as above; or الماشية, Verbal.Noun إِخْلَآءٌ; He cut the herbage called خَلًى for the beast, or for the cattle: and he fed the beast, or the cattle, with خَلًى.
3 خَلَى الشَّعِيرَ He collected the barley in a مِخْلَاة.
4 خَلَى القِدْرِ, He put firewood beneath the cooking-pot: or he put flesh-meat into the cooking-pot. And القِدْرِ He kindled a fire for the cooking-pot with camels', or similar, dung; as though he put خَلًى to it. And , said of a cooking-pot, It had firewood put to it, like as a she-camel has خَلًى put to her, and kindled beneath it: or, as some relate a verse in which it occurs, , [belonging to art. خلو,] having a similar meaning, from this verb said of a she-camel such as is termed خَلِيَّة, meaning “ she had ” a young one “ put to her. ”
5 خَلَى الفَرَسَ, or خَلَاهُ اللِّجَامَ, He put the bit in the mouth of the horse, like fresh خَلًى.
6 And خَلَى اللِّجَامَ, عَنِ الفَرَسِ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He pulled out the bit [from the mouth of the horse].

def.2 See also 1, last sentence, in art. خلو.

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