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خِيفَة

khiyfah

xiyfapN xyfh xyfp ; pl. xiyfN : see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- [Sometimes it may mean, agreeably with analogy, A kind of fear. ] -A2- See also art. xyf .

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What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

1. خِيفَةٌ

xiyfapN xyfh xyfp ; pl. xiyfN : see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- [Sometimes it may mean, agreeably with analogy, A kind of fear. ] -A2- See also art. xyf .

2. خَيْفَةٌ

xayofapN xyfh xyfp A knife, (AA, K,) such as is termed ramiyD [q. v.]. (AA, TA.) -A2- Also, (thus in the K,) or ↓ xiyfapN , (so in the JK, [and app. accord. to Sgh,]) The place of resort a lion: (JK, K:) mentioned in this art. by Ibn-'Abbád; but accord. to Sgh, it may be from Alxawofu . (TA.)

In the wild

Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.