خلل

خَلَّ

To become lean, spare, or emaciated as the flesh diminishes.

An intransitive Form I use describing reduced flesh or bodily leanness.

• Lane · entry 19700

خَلَّ

To miss or fail to find something; of a camel, to miss its pasture and become lean.

The object or pasture is introduced with مِنْ in the cited construction.

• Lane · entry 19700

خَلَّ

To become poor, needy, or in want.

Said of a person who has entered a state of need.

• Lane · entry 19700

خَلَّ

To pierce, perforate, or transfix something or someone.

May be done with a spear, arrow, or other piercing implement; the cited usage includes repeated piercing.

• Lane · entry 19700

خَلَّ

To slit a young camel's tongue and insert a pin to prevent it from suckling.

A specialized husbandry practice intended to stop suckling and thereby cause the young camel to become lean.

• Lane · entry 19700

خَلَّ

To pin or fasten the edges of a garment or tent with a pointed stick.

The action joins or secures two edges by means of a خِلَال.

• Lane · entry 19700

خَلَّ

To move camels to pasture of the kind called خُلَّة.

A pasture-management expression, contrasted with pasture called حَمْض.

• Lane · entry 19700

خَلَّ

To particularize or specify, as opposed to making something general.

Used in the contrast عَمَّ وَخَلَّ, “included generally and specified particularly.”

• Lane · entry 19700

خَلَّلَ

To pick or extract material from between the teeth.

The object is food residue, removed with a toothpick or similar implement.

• Lane · entry 19701

خَلَّلَ

To separate or make something pass through its interstices.

Includes separating hair with a comb and causing water to flow between the beard hairs or fingers during ablution.

• Lane · entry 19701

خَلَّلَ

To fill the interstices of masonry with lime or mortar.

A constructional use referring to the gaps between stones.

• Lane · entry 19701

خَلَّلَ

To inspect plants or fruit individually and replace those that have not grown.

Attested of cucumbers, melons, and similar cultivated produce.

• Lane · entry 19701

خَلَّلَ

To become sour, acidic, spoiled, or changed into vinegar.

An intransitive use of beverages, expressed juice, or wine; some authorities restrict or disallow particular variants.

• Lane · entry 19701

خَلَّلَ

To make a beverage, must, or similar liquid into vinegar.

A transitive use alongside the intransitive sense of becoming sour or vinegary.

• Lane · entry 19701

خَلَّلَ

To preserve or pickle unripe dates and other produce with vinegar.

The cited procedure includes sunning the produce, sprinkling it with vinegar, and placing it in a jar.

• Lane · entry 19701

أَخَلَّ

To fall short, be remiss, neglect an obligation, or fail to fulfill a compact or promise.

Constructed with بِـ for the matter in which one falls short; includes neglect of belief, confession, works, promises, and compacts.

• Lane · entry 19703

أَخَلَّ

To become absent from, leave, abandon, or quit a place or station.

Used of abandoning an appointed military position or becoming absent from people.

• Lane · entry 19703

أَخَلَّ

To cause a frontier or border post to be held by a small body of troops.

A causative administrative or military construction.

• Lane · entry 19703

أَخَلَّ

To cause someone to want or need something.

Used in questions such as مَا أَخَلَّكَ إِلَى هَذَا, “what caused you to need this?”

• Lane · entry 19703

أَخَلَّ

Of camels, to pasture upon خُلَّة.

A pasture-related use of the Form IV verb.

• Lane · entry 19703

أَخَلَّ

In a specialized usage, to take from the front.

A marked, assumed tropical usage contrasted with taking from behind; it is retained as a specialized lexical expression.

• Lane · entry 19703

أَخَلَّ

Of a palm tree, to produce defective fruit or dates in the stage called خَلَال.

The sources record contrary descriptions of the fruit, so the entry preserves both the defective-fruit and named-stage usages without treating them as a single precise botanical diagnosis.

• Lane · entry 19703

تَخَلَّلَ

To enter, pass through, or penetrate the interstices or spaces within something.

Used of moving among people, through houses or sand, and figuratively of an admonition penetrating the heart; it also supports expressions meaning “without interruption.”

• Lane · entry 19704

تَخَلَّلَ

Of rain, to be confined to particular places rather than being general.

A specialized use describing localized rainfall.

• Lane · entry 19704

تَخَلَّلَ

To seek or pick dates remaining among the roots of palm branches.

Refers to dates left after the fruit clusters have been cut.

• Lane · entry 19704

تَخَالَّ

To act together as friends or to associate in mutual friendship.

A reciprocal Form VI expression used of several people.

• Lane · entry 19705

اِخْتَلَّ

To have or develop interstices, breaks, chinks, or gaps.

The concrete primary use describes a thing in which spaces or breaks have appeared.

• Lane · entry 19706

اِخْتَلَّ

To become shaky, loose, disordered, defective, weak, or unsound.

Used of things, affairs, constitutions, minds, or states that have deteriorated or become disordered.

• Lane · entry 19706

اِخْتَلَّ

To become lean, meagre, or emaciated.

Said of a body or person whose flesh has diminished.

• Lane · entry 19706

اِخْتَلَّ

To be wanted or needed.

Constructed with إِلَى; the passive expression may mean that someone or something has become needed.

• Lane · entry 19706

اِخْتَلَّ

To serve together.

A distinct, sparsely attested social usage.

• Lane · entry 19706

اِخْتَلَّ

To have or be confined in pasture of the kind called خُلَّة.

Said of a place containing such pasture or of camels confined to it.

• Lane · entry 19706

خَلْخَلَ

To put an anklet or anklets on a woman.

A specialized Form II use referring to the ornament خَلْخَال.

• Lane · entry 19707

خَلْخَلَ

To take the flesh from a bone.

A specialized extraction use.

• Lane · entry 19707

تَخَلْخَلَ

To put on an anklet or anklets.

A reflexive or intransitive use referring to a woman adorning herself with an anklet.

• Lane · entry 19708

تَخَلْخَلَ

Of a garment or cloth, to become old and worn out.

A specialized intransitive use.

• Lane · entry 19708

خَلّ

Vinegar: sour or acidified juice, especially from grapes or dates.

The entry also records medicinal and culinary uses and the idiom خَلٌّ وَلَا خَمْرٌ, whose value polarity varies by dialectal interpretation.

• Lane · entry 19709

خَلّ

A kind of salty, sour, or bitter plant or pasture, contrasted with خُلَّة.

A botanical and pastoral term with variation in the precise plant class included.

• Lane · entry 19709

خَلّ

A road or passage through or between tracts of sand.

The word may denote a sandy route, including one through heaped or separated sands.

• Lane · entry 19709

خَلّ

An oblong tract of sand.

A geographic use distinct from the route through sand.

• Lane · entry 19709

خَلّ

A vein in the neck or back communicating with the head.

An anatomical usage.

• Lane · entry 19709

خَلّ

A slit, rent, or opening in a garment or piece of cloth.

A concrete opening in woven material.

• Lane · entry 19709

خَلّ

An old, worn, thin, or streaked garment or cloth.

Also used adjectivally of a garment that has become worn or thin.

• Lane · entry 19709

خَلّ

A bird with no feathers or only a few feathers.

A specialized descriptive noun or epithet.

• Lane · entry 19709

خَلّ

A lean, meagre, or emaciated person or camel; in a contrary usage, fat.

The sources explicitly record both opposed applications, so the contrast is retained rather than resolved.

• Lane · entry 19709

خَلّ

A young camel in its second or third year.

A camel-age designation, also used of the corresponding female; one cited comparison emphasizes smallness.

• Lane · entry 19709

خَلّ

A cautery.

A specialized nominal use.

• Lane · entry 19709

خَلَّة

A road between two roads.

A spatial noun for a route or passage between routes.

• Lane · entry 19712

خَلَّة

A small penetrating hole, perforation, or gap.

May denote a breach in a reed booth or similar structure.

• Lane · entry 19712

خَلَّة

The vacant place or gap left by a person who has died.

Used in supplications asking that the deceased person's absence be supplied or repaired.

• Lane · entry 19712

خَلَّة

The interval between a piercer and the thing pierced.

A specialized expression associated with striking or thrusting.

• Lane · entry 19712

خَلَّة

Want, poverty, need, straitness, or difficulty.

The noun may denote a pressing need that requires being supplied or relieved.

• Lane · entry 19712

خَلَّة

A quality, disposition, habit, or customary practice.

Used of a person's characteristic nature or conduct; its plural is خِلَال.

• Lane · entry 19712

خَلَّة

An isolated or elevated tract of sand.

The sources include both a separate sandy tract and a term compared with هَضْبَة.

• Lane · entry 19712

خَلَّة

Wine, especially sour or altered wine.

The sources differ over whether the word denotes wine generally, sour wine, or wine changed for the worse.

• Lane · entry 19712

خُلَّة

Sweet pasture, herbage, or trees that are not of the salty or sour kind called حَمْض.

A pastoral and botanical noun; usage varies over whether it includes trees, shrubs, or land without herbage.

• Lane · entry 19713

خُلَّة

Ease, repose, freedom from trouble, or ampleness of circumstances.

A figurative extension from pleasant pasture; it may also be contrasted figuratively with hardship or death.

• Lane · entry 19713

خُلَّة

Acid or sour leaven or ferment.

A specialized food-related noun.

• Lane · entry 19713

خِلَّة

The leather covering or lining of a sword scabbard; also a bow thong or decorated piece of skin.

The word covers related leather or skin components, including a thong at the curved end of a bow.

• Lane · entry 19714

خَلَل

A flaw, defect, imperfection, deficiency, looseness, or disorder.

Used figuratively of an affair, thing, war, people, or opinion that lacks compactness or soundness.

• Lane · entry 19715

خَلَل

The night.

A rare lexical usage recorded without further constructional restriction.

• Lane · entry 19715

خَلَال

Green dates in the stage called بَلَح.

A collective or dialectal noun with a singulative in ـة.

• Lane · entry 19719

خُلَال

An accident or change in a sweet substance that makes its flavor acidic or sour.

A specialized result noun related to the souring of beverages or foods.

• Lane · entry 19720

خِلَال

A pin, skewer, toothpick, or similar implement used to pierce, fasten, or clear an interstice.

Includes an iron or wooden piercing tool, a garment pin, a meat skewer, a camel-tongue pin, and a toothpick.

• Lane · entry 19721

خَلِيل

Perforated or transpierced.

A specialized adjectival use distinct from خَلِيل meaning a friend.

• Lane · entry 19722

خَلِيل

Poor, needy, or in want.

A nominal or adjectival use connected with the semantic notion of a gap or need, but distinct from the friendship noun.

• Lane · entry 19722

خَلِيل

One who advises, counsels, or acts sincerely and faithfully.

A specialized description of a trustworthy adviser.

• Lane · entry 19722

خَلِيل

The heart.

A rare anatomical or lexical use.

• Lane · entry 19722

خَلِيل

The liver.

A rare anatomical use.

• Lane · entry 19722

خَلِيل

The nose.

A rare anatomical use.

• Lane · entry 19722

خَلِيل

A sword.

A rare lexical use, including a named sword.

• Lane · entry 19722

خَلِيل

A spear.

A rare lexical use.

• Lane · entry 19722

خُلَالَة

Scattered ripe dates remaining among the roots of palm branches.

Refers to fruit left after the main clusters have been cut.

• Lane · entry 19724

خُلَالَة

Food residue that comes out from between the teeth when they are picked.

A noun for the remains removed by tooth-picking.

• Lane · entry 19724

خَلَّال

A seller of vinegar.

An occupational noun.

• Lane · entry 19727

خُلِّيّ

Pertaining to or pasturing upon خُلَّة.

Used adjectivally of a camel or camels and in expressions concerning the change between pasture types.

• Lane · entry 19728

خَلْخَال

Rough sand.

A specialized geographic description.

• Lane · entry 19731

خَلْخَال

A woman's anklet or pair of anklets.

A well-known women's ornament; variant forms and plural patterns are recorded in the source.

• Lane · entry 19731

خَالّ

Having gaps or interstices; uncompact or incoherent.

The cited adjectival forms can be applied to an army as well as to other things.

• Lane · entry 19732

أَخَلّ

More or most poor, needy, or in need.

A comparative or superlative derived from the use of أَخَلَّ إِلَيْهِ meaning “to need.”

• Lane · entry 19733

أَرْضٌ مَخَلَّةٌ

Land abounding in خُلَّة and lacking the pasture called حَمْض.

A pastoral description of land.

• Lane · entry 19736

مُخَلْخَل

The part of the leg where an anklet is worn.

Applied especially to the leg of a woman.

• Lane · entry 19738

مُخْتَلّ

Vehemently thirsty.

A specialized adjectival use.

• Lane · entry 19739

مُخْتَلّ

Weak or unsound; in a defective or disordered state.

Used especially of an affair or condition that lacks soundness.

• Lane · entry 19739