Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

خَيْدَعٌ

Root: خدع

Full Definition

خَيْدَعٌ : see خَادِعٌ, first sentence. [Hence,] A wolf that acts deceitfully, or mischievously; or that practises artifice. (Z, Sgh, K. [In the CK, المُخْتَالُ is erroneously put for المُحْتَالُ.])
2 Also A person in whose love, or affection, no confidence is placed.
3 And hence, الخَيْدَعُ is also applied to The mirage; accord. to some. You say, غَرَّهُمُ الخَيْدَعُ The mirage deceived them.
4 [For the same reason,] it is also applied to The cat.
5 And from the former of the last two meanings is derived the phrase غُولٌ خَيْدَعٌ A very deceitful, or guileful, ghool; so that it is doubly tropical.
6 طَرِيقٌ خَيْدَعٌ: see خَادِعٌ; in the latter part of the paragraph.


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