خَصَاصَة

xaSaASapN xS xSAS xSASh xSASp An interstice, interval, or intervening space or opening; (S, K;) as also ↓ xaSaASN [which is commonly used as a coll. gen. n.] and ↓ xaSaASaA='u : (K:) or an interstice, &c., in the vagor [app. meaning the front teeth ]; as also ↓ the second of these words: (TA:) or the first and ↓ second, (TA,) or ↓ all, (K,) any interstice, &c., or hole or perforation, in a door, and sieve, and [ veil of the kind called ] buroquE , and the like, (K, TA,) such as a cloud, and a strainer, &c.: (TA:) [ a crevice, cranny, chink, or fissure: ] or the first, (TA,) or ↓ all, (K,) a small hole or perforation: (K, TA:) or the first has this signification as well as the signification first mentioned: (S:) or the ↓ second, the like of a kaw~ap [or mural aperture ] in a [ structure of the kind called ] qub~ap , or the like, when as wide as the face; or, accord. to some, whether wide or narrow: (TA:) and the same, interstices, intervals, or intervening spaces or openings, in a xuS~ ; (TA;) or narrow interstices, &c., therein: (T, TA:) and the same, (TA,) or ↓ all, (K,) the intervening spaces between the three stones upon which a cooking-pot is placed; (K, TA;) and between the fingers: (TA:) and the first, the intervening spaces between the feathers of an arrow: (IAar, TA:) pl. [of the first,] xaSaASaAtN . (TA.) You say of the moon, badaA mino xaSaASapi Algayomi [ It appeared from the gap of the cloud, or clouds ]. (S, A.) ― -b2- Also A cloud itself; or clouds; syn. gayomN . (TA.) -A2- Also the first, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) and ↓ second, (S, K,) and ↓ third, (IDrd, K,) (tropical:) Poverty; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) need; (A, Msb, TA;) straitness, or difficulty; (Mgh;) an evil state or condition: (TA:) from xaSaASaAt meaning the “ holes ” of a sieve: whence a saying cited voce tajam~ala : (Mgh:) or from the first of the senses explained in this paragraph; because a thing, when it opens so as to form an interstice, becomes weak and unsound. (TA.) You say also, ↓ sadadotu xuSaASapa fulaAnK , with damm, meaning, (tropical:) I repaired the broken fortune of such a one. (A, TA.) ― -b2- Also the first, (tropical:) Thirst; as in camels when they return from water without having satisfied themselves with drink: and hunger; as in a man when he has not satisfied himself with food. (TA.)