خُلَّة

xal~apN xl xlh xlp A road between two roads. (TA.) ― -b2- A hole, perforation, or bore, that penetrates, or passes through, a thing, and is small: or, in a general sense: (K:) or a gap, or breach, in a booth of reeds or canes. (T, TA.) [See also xalalN .] ― -b3- [And hence,] The gap that is left by a person who has died: (As, T, S, TA:) or the place, of a man, that is left vacant after his death. (K.) One says, of him who has lost a person by death, Aall~`hum~a A@xolufo EalaY A^aholihi bixayorK waA@sodudo xal~atahu , i. e. [ O God, supply to his family, with that which is good, the place of him whom they have lost, ] and fill up the gap which he has left by his death. (As, T, S, * TA.) ― -b4- And The interval, or inter- vening space, between the piercer, or thruster, and the pierced, or thrust: whence the saying, raqaEa xal~apa AlfaArisi , explained in art. rqE . (O and K and TA in that art.) ― -b5- [Hence also,] Want, or a want: poverty; (S, Msb, K;) need, straitness, or difficulty. (Lh, K.) One says, bihi xal~apN $adiydapN He has pressing, or severe, need or straitness or difficulty. (Lh, TA.) And sad~a A@ll~`hu xal~atahu May God supply his want. (TA.) And it is said in a prov., Alxal~apu tadoEuw A_ilaY Als~al~api Want invites to theft. (K, * TA.) -A2- I. q. xaSolapN ; (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K;) both signify A property, quality, nature, or disposition: and a habit, or custom: (KL, PS, TK:) [and app. also a practice, or an action: ] in a man: (TA: [see the latter word:]) pl. xilaAlN . (JK, Mgh, Msb, K.) One says, fulaAnN xal~atuhu HasanapN [ Such a one, his nature, or disposition, is good ]. (IDrd, TA.) And hence, xayoru xilaAli AlS~aAy^imi Als~iwaAku [ The best of the habits, or customs, of the faster is the use of the tooth-stick ]. (Mgh.) ― -b2- See also xul~apN . -A3- An isolated tract of sand, (Fr, K,) separate from other sands. (Fr, TA.) ― -b2- And i. q. haDobapN [which signifies An elevated tract of sand: but more commonly a hill; or a spreading mountain; &c.]. (JK, TA.) -A4- Wine, (K,) in a general sense: (TA:) or acid, or sour, wine: (S, K:) or wine altered for the worse, (K, TA,) in flavour, (TA,) without acidity, or sourness: (K, TA:) pl. [or coll. gen. n.] ↓ xal~N . (K.) ― -b2- See also xal~N , first sentence. -A5- And see this last word near the end of the paragraph, in four places.

xul~apN xl xlh xlp an inf. n. [or rather quasi-inf. n.] of xaAl~ahu , q. v.: (JK:) True, or sincere, friendship, love, or affection; as also ↓ xuluwlapN and ↓ xulaAlapN and ↓ xalaAlapN and ↓ xilaAlapN : (S:) or all these signify a particular true or sincere friendship, or love, or affection, in which is no unsoundness, or defect, and which may be chaste and may be vitious: (K: [in which all are said to be substs., except xul~apN , as though this were properly speaking an inf. n., though having a pl., as shown below:]) [and sometimes simply friendship: see an ex. in a verse cited voce maroHabN , in art. rHb :] or xul~apN and ↓ xal~apN , (Msb,) or ↓ xil~N and ↓ xil~apN , each with kesr, (K,) signify true, or sincere, friendship, or love, or affection, (Msb, K,) and brotherly conduct: the last two as used in the phrases, A_inahu ↓ lakariymu Alxil~i and ↓ Alxil~api [ Verily he is generous in respect of true, or sincere, friendship, &c.]: (K:) the pl. of xul~apN in the sense explained above is xilaAlN . (S, K.) ― -b2- See also xaliylN , in three places. -A2- A kind of plants or herbage [or trees ]; (JK, S, Msb, K;) namely, the sweet kind thereof; (S, K;) not HamoD : (JK:) or any pasture, or herbage, that is not HamoD ; all pasture, or herbage, consisting of HamoD and xul~ap , and HamoD being such as has in it saltness [or sourness]: (TA:) the [ kind of plant, or tree, called ] Earofaj ; and every tree that remains in winter: (JK:) accord. to Lh, it is [applied to certain kinds ] of trees &c.: accord. to IAar, peculiarly of trees: but accord. to A'Obeyd, [ shrubs, i. e.] not including any great trees: (TA:) and a certain thorny tree: also a place of growth, and a place in which is a collection, of [the plants, or trees, called] Earofaj : (K:) and any land not containing [ the kind of plants, or herbage, or trees, called ] HamoD ; (AHn, K;) even though containing no plants, or herbage: (AHn, TA:) the pl. is xulalN : (K:) one says A^aroDN xul~apN and A^araDuwna xulalN : ISh says that A^aroDN xal~apN and xulalu AlA^aroDi mean land, and lands, in which is no HamoD , sometimes containing [ thorny trees such as are called ] EiDaAh , and sometimes not containing such; and that xul~apN is also applied to land in which are no trees nor any herbage: (TA:) some say that xul~apN , as meaning the pasture, or herbage, which is the contrary of HamoD , has for a pl. xilaAlN , and then, from xilaAl is formed the pl. A^axil~apN : and some say that this last means herbage that is cut ( waA@jotuz~ ↓ Auxotul~ [in which the latter verb seems to be an explicative adjunct to the former]) while green. (Ham p. 662, q. v.) They say that the xul~ap is the bread of camels, and the HamoD is their fruit, (JK, T, Sudot;, TA,) or their flesh-meat, (S, TA,) or their xabiyS . (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, by way of comparison, it is applied to (tropical:) Ease, or repose; freedom from trouble or inconvenience, and toil or fatigue; or tranquillity; and ampleness of circumstances: and HamoD , to evil, and war: (T, TA:) and the former, to life: and the latter, to death. (Ham p. 315.) ― -b3- Also Acid, or sour, leaven or ferment. (IAar, TA.)

xil~apN xl xlh xlp : see 1, near the middle of the paragraph: -A2- and see also xulaAlpN , in four places: -A3- and xul~apN , first sentence, in two places: -A4- and xaliylN , in two places. -A5- Also The jafon [i. e. the scabbard, or the case, ] of a sword, covered with leather: (K:) or a lining with which the jafon of a sword is covered, (S, K, and Ham pp. 330 et seq.,) variegated, or embellished, with gold &c.; (S;) but the pl. is also used as meaning scabbards: (Ham p. 331:) and a thong that is fixed upon the outer side of the curved extremity of a bow: (S, K:) in the T it is explained as meaning the inner side of the thong of the jafon , which is seen from without, and is an ornament, or a decoration: (TA:) and any piece of skin that is variegated, or embellished: (M, K:) the pl. is xilalN (S, K, and Ham p. 330) and xilaAlN , and pl. pl. A^axil~apN , (K,) i. e. pl. of xilaAlN . (TA.)