خَافِيَة

xaAfiyapN xAfy xAfyh xAfyp contr. of EalaAniyapN [app. meaning that it signifies A state of being unapparent or not apparent, covert, secret, private, or clandestine: though explained in the TK (followed by Freytag) as an epithet applied to a man, meaning whose actions are always covert ]. (K.) ― -b2- See also xafFA . ― -b3- And see xaAfK , in four places. ― -b4- Also One, i. e. a single feather, of the feathers called AlxawaAfiY : (TA:) AlxawaAfiY signifies the feathers below the ten that are in the fore part of the wing: (As, S:) or certain feathers that are concealed when the bird contracts its wing: (K:) or the four feathers that are [ next ] after those called AlmanaAkib , (Lh, K, *) and next before those called AlA^abaAhir : (S in art. bhr , and L in art. nkb :) or seven feathers in the wing, after the seven foremost: (K, * TA:) but the people [generally] mention them as four: or they are the small feathers in the wing of a bird. (TA.) xanojarN mivolu xaAfiyapi Aln~asori [ A dagger like the xAfyp of the vulture ], occurring in a trad., means a small xnjr . (TA.) One says also xaAfiyapu AlguraAbi [ The xAfyp of the crow ]: and the pl. is [sometimes expressed by using the coll. gen. n., saying] AlguraAbi ↓ xaAfiY . (JK.) ― -b5- AlxawaAfiY also signifies The palm-branches [ next ] below the qilabap [which latter are the branches that grow forth from the heart of the tree ]: (S, TA:) thus called in the dial. of Nejd: (TA:) in the dial. of El-Hijáz called AlEawaAhinu . (S, TA.)