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خَسَفَ , aor.
خَسِفَ , (JK, S, Msb, K,) inf. n.
خَسْفٌ, (JK,) or خُسُوفٌ, (S, K,) or both; (Msb;)
[and ↓ انخسف;] It (a place) sank, (JK, Msb,)
or went away, into the ground, or earth, (S, Msb,
K,) with what was upon it. (JK.) You say,
انخسف ↓ الأَرْضُ, [and خَسَفَت,] The ground
sank [into the earth] with what was upon it.
(TA.) And انخسفت ↓ بِهِ الأَرْضُ, (JK,) or
انخسف ↓ به الارض, and خُسِفَ به الارض, (TA,)
and خَسَفَتْ, (Msb in art. سوخ,) The ground sank
with him, or it: (JK:) or the ground, or
earth, [swallowed up him, or it; or] took and
enclosed him, or it. (TA.) And انخسفت ↓ البِئْرُ
The well [sank and collapsed; or] went away
into the earth with its casing of stones and wood.
(Mgh.) And خَسَفَ فِى الأَرْضِ and خُسِفَ بِهِ [He,
or it, sank into the ground, or earth, and became
swallowed up, or enclosed, or concealed, therein].
(S.) It is said in the Kur [xxviii. 82], accord. to
one reading, لَخُسِفَ بِنَا [We had been swallowed
up by the earth]: (S:) accord. to another reading, (that of 'Abd-Allah, S, i. e. Ibn-Mes'ood,
TA,) لَٱنْخُسِفَ ↓ بنا, (S, K,) in the pass. form;
(K;) [meaning the same;] like as one says,
اُنْطُلِقَ بنا. (S.) You say also, خَسَفَتْ عَيْنُ المَآءِ
The spring of water sank, or went away, into the
earth. (Msb, K. *) And انخسفت ↓ العَيْنُ The
eye sank, or became depressed, in the head; syn.
غَارَتْ; (Msb in art. غور;) [and so خَسَفَت, inf. n.
خُسُوفٌ; for] خُسُوفُ العَيْنِ signifies The eye's
going away into the head: (S:) or ↓ انخسفت
signifies its black, or part surrounded by the
white, disappeared in the head: (Mgh:) or this
last, (K,) as quasi-pass. of the trans. v. خَسَفَ,
(TA,) (tropical:) it (the eye) became blind; as also
↓ أَخْسَفَت; (K, TA;) and [in like manner]
خَسَفَت (assumed tropical:) it (the eye) lost its light [or sight].
(Msb.) ―
2-b2- [Hence, app.,] خَسَفَ القَمَرُ, inf. n.
خُسُوفٌ; (S, Msb, K;) and خُسِفَ; (TA;) (assumed tropical:) The
moon [suffered eclipse, or became eclipsed, or] lost
its light, or part of its light; (Msb;) i. q.
كَسَفَ: (S, * Msb, * K:) and خَسَفَتِ الشَّمْسُ and
كَسَفَت both signify the same [i. e. the sun suffered eclipse, &c.]: (Mgh:) or one says كَسَفَت
of the sun, and خَسَفَ of the moon, (Th, S, Msb,
K,) accord. to the more approved usage: (Th, S,
Msb:) or, in the common conventional language,
الكُسُوفُ is the partial loss of the light of the sun,
and الخُسُوفُ is the total loss of the light thereof:
(AHát, Msb:) or الخسوف is the partial loss of
the light of the sun, and الكسوف is the total loss
thereof, (K, TA,) accord. to AHát: (TA:)
الخسوف often occurs in the trads., as said of the
sun; though the term commonly known in the
classical language is الكسوف [in this case]: and
it is said in a trad., إِنَّ الشَّمْسَ وَ القَمَرَ لَايَخْسِفَانِ
لِمَوْتِ أَحَدٍ أَوْ لِحَيَاتِهِ [Verily the sun and the moon
suffer not eclipse for the death of any one or for
his life]; predominance being in this instance
attributed to the moon, as being masc., over the
sun, which is fem. (IAth.) ―
2-b3- Also, inf. n.
خَسْفٌ, (assumed tropical:) It (a thing) became defective or deficient; suffered loss or diminution. (K.) ―
2-b4- (tropical:) It
(the body) became lean, or emaciated. (TA.)
And خَسَفَتْ, said of camels and of sheep or goats,
(tropical:) They became lean, or emaciated. (TA. [This
meaning is there indicated, but not clearly expressed. See خَسْفَةٌ. Accord. to the KL, the
inf. n. خَسْفٌ signifies The being vile, abject, or
contemptible: and also the being lean, or emaciated: and hence Golius, on that authority, has
rendered the verb as meaning vilis et macer
fuit.]) ―
2-b5- Also (assumed tropical:) It (the colour, or complexion,
of a person) became altered, or altered for the
worse. (TA.) ―
2-b6- And (tropical:) It (a thing, K, as, for
instance, a roof, TA) became pierced with a hole,
or rent; (K, TA;) as also ↓ انخسف. (TA.) ―
2-b7-
And, خَسَفَت, said of a she-camel, (tropical:) She, after
yielding abundant milk, soon stopped [its flow]
in winter. (K, TA.) ―
2-b8- And, said of a well, It
was, or became, such as is termed خَسِيفٌ [q. v.].
(TA.) ―
2-b9- And خَسَفَ, said of a man, (tropical:) He recovered from a disease. (IDrd, K, TA.) ＝
1-A2- خَسَفَ,
(JK, Msb, TA,) aor.
خَسِفَ , (Kur xvi. 47, &c,)
inf. n. خَسْفٌ, He (God) made a place, (JK,
Msb,) or the ground, (TA,) to sink, (JK, Msb,
TA,) or go away, into the earth, (Msb,) with
what was upon it. (JK, TA.) And خَسَفَ بِهِ
الأَرْضَ, (S, K,) inf. n. خَسْفٌ, (S,) He (God) made
him, or it, to disappear in the earth, or ground:
(S, K:) [or made the earth, or ground, to sink
with, and swallow up, him, or it:] whence, in
the Kur [xxviii. 81], فَخَسَفْنَا بِهِ وَبِدَارِهِ الأَرْضَ
[And we made the ground to sink with, and
swallow up, him and his mansion]. (S.) And
خَسَفْتُ عَيْنَ المَآءِ I made the spring of water to
sink, or go away, into the earth. (Msb.) ―
2-b2-
خَسَفَ عَيْنَ فُلَانٍ, (K, TA,) aor.
خَسِفَ , inf. n. خَسْفٌ,
(TA,) (tropical:) He put out, or blinded, the eye of such a
one, (K, * TA,) so that the black, or part surrounded by the white, disappeared in the head.
(TA.) ―
2-b3- خَسَفَ الشَّىْءَ, (K,) aor. and inf. n. as
above, (TA,) (tropical:) He made a hole in, or rent, the
thing. (K, TA.) ―
2-b4- And (assumed tropical:) He cut, or cut off,
the thing. (K.) ―
2-b5- خَسَفَ البِئْرَ, (K,) inf. n. as
above, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He dug the well in stones, so that
it yielded an abundant and unceasing flow of
water: (K, TA:) or he dug the well by piercing
through its mountain [or rock] to the water
beneath so that it would never become exhausted:
or he dug the well so as to reach an unceasing, or a
copious, source of water. (TA.) Hence the saying of 'Omar, in reply to a question of El-'Abbás
respecting the poets, اِمْرَأُ القَيْسِ سَابِقُهُمْ خَسَفَ لَهُمْ
عَيْنَ الشِّعْرِ, i. e. (assumed tropical:) [Imra-el-Keys is he who has
the precedence of them:] he has made the source
of poetry to well forth abundantly to them. (TA.)
―
2-b6- خَسَفَ النَّاقَةَ, inf. n. as above, (tropical:) He (God)
made the she-camel, after yielding abundant milk,
soon to stop [its flow] in winter. (K, TA.) ―
2-b7-
خَسْفٌ also signifies The confining a beast without
fodder: (K, TA:) or making a beast to pass the
night without fodder: (Ham p. 290:) and
(hence, TA) (tropical:) the constraining a man to do that
which he dislikes, or hates; (JK, Ham ibid., K,
TA;) as also خُسْفٌ: (JK:) and (hence, Ham)
(tropical:) the lowering, humbling, or abasing, another:
(Ham, * K, TA:) whence, سُمْتُهُ الخَسْفَ, (Ham,)
or سَامَهُ خَسْفًا, &c.: [explained below: see خَسْفٌ:]
(TA:) and the verb of خَسْفٌ in these three senses
is خَسَفَ. (T, K.)