مَخْرَفٌ
Root: خرف
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مَخْرَفٌ
The place of the gathering, or plucking, or cutting off, of fruit. A place of abode of a people, or party, during their
خَرِيف. (TA. [It is there added, “ as though formed from أَخْرَفُوا, by the rejection of the augmentative letter: ” but it is rather to be regarded as regularly formed, from خَرَفُوا: see 1.])
2 Also A garden; and so مَخْرَفَةٌ : or a garden of palm-trees; as also مَخْرِفٌ and مَخْرَفَةٌ : a single palm-tree: or a few palm-trees, up to ten; more than these being termed a بُسْتَان or a حَدِيقَة: see also خَرِيفَةٌ: or a small collection of palmtrees, six or seven, which a man purchases for the fruit that is [to be] gathered, or plucked: or any collection of palm-trees: or a walled garden of palm-trees: or palm-trees [absolutely]: and an avenue between two rows of palm-trees, such that one may gather, or pluck, the fruit from whichever of them he will; as also مَخْرَفَةٌ : and, as also مَخْرَفَةٌ , a road, such as is conspicuous, clear, or open: pl. مَخَارِفُ. It is said in a trad., عَائِدُ المَرِيضِ عَلَى مَخَارِفِ الجَنَّةِ حَتَّى يَرْجِعَ, i. e. The visitor of the sick is as though he were in the gardens of Paradise until he returns: or upon the palm-trees of Paradise; gathering, or plucking, their fruits: or upon the roads of Paradise: or, as some relate it, على الجنّةِ. And it is said in a trad. of 'Omar, تَرَكْتُكُمْ عَلَى النَّعَمِ, or تُرِكْتُمْ, i. e. [I have left you, or ye have been left,] upon a conspicuous road, like the road of the camels, which they have trodden with their feet so that it has become plainly apparent.
3 Also Gathered, or plucked, fruit of palm-trees: a correct meaning, though IKt says that the proper word in this sense is only مَخْرُوفٌ: it is like مَشْرَبٌ and مَطْعَمٌ and مَرْكَبٌ as meaning مَشْرُوبٌ and طَعَامٌ مَأْكُولٌ and مَرْكُوبٌ; and may signify fresh ripe dates gathered or plucked: pl. as above. So in the former of the two trads. mentioned above accord. to As and A 'Obeyd: and this interpretation is corroborated by another reading, i. e., على الجنّةِ: another reading is, فِى الجنّةِ: [see خَرَافٌ:] and another, لَهُ خَرِيفٌ فِى الجَنَّةِ, i. e. [The visitor of the sick shall have] gathered fruits in Paradise.
2 Also A garden; and so مَخْرَفَةٌ : or a garden of palm-trees; as also مَخْرِفٌ and مَخْرَفَةٌ : a single palm-tree: or a few palm-trees, up to ten; more than these being termed a بُسْتَان or a حَدِيقَة: see also خَرِيفَةٌ: or a small collection of palmtrees, six or seven, which a man purchases for the fruit that is [to be] gathered, or plucked: or any collection of palm-trees: or a walled garden of palm-trees: or palm-trees [absolutely]: and an avenue between two rows of palm-trees, such that one may gather, or pluck, the fruit from whichever of them he will; as also مَخْرَفَةٌ : and, as also مَخْرَفَةٌ , a road, such as is conspicuous, clear, or open: pl. مَخَارِفُ. It is said in a trad., عَائِدُ المَرِيضِ عَلَى مَخَارِفِ الجَنَّةِ حَتَّى يَرْجِعَ, i. e. The visitor of the sick is as though he were in the gardens of Paradise until he returns: or upon the palm-trees of Paradise; gathering, or plucking, their fruits: or upon the roads of Paradise: or, as some relate it, على الجنّةِ. And it is said in a trad. of 'Omar, تَرَكْتُكُمْ عَلَى النَّعَمِ, or تُرِكْتُمْ, i. e. [I have left you, or ye have been left,] upon a conspicuous road, like the road of the camels, which they have trodden with their feet so that it has become plainly apparent.
3 Also Gathered, or plucked, fruit of palm-trees: a correct meaning, though IKt says that the proper word in this sense is only مَخْرُوفٌ: it is like مَشْرَبٌ and مَطْعَمٌ and مَرْكَبٌ as meaning مَشْرُوبٌ and طَعَامٌ مَأْكُولٌ and مَرْكُوبٌ; and may signify fresh ripe dates gathered or plucked: pl. as above. So in the former of the two trads. mentioned above accord. to As and A 'Obeyd: and this interpretation is corroborated by another reading, i. e., على الجنّةِ: another reading is, فِى الجنّةِ: [see خَرَافٌ:] and another, لَهُ خَرِيفٌ فِى الجَنَّةِ, i. e. [The visitor of the sick shall have] gathered fruits in Paradise.
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